Another Loving Kindness Meditation

Another variant of a Loving Kindness Meditation that can be used when you want to practice Loving Kindness.

May I live in safety.
May I be happy.
May I be healthy.
May I live with ease.


May you live in safety,
May you be happy,
May you be healthy,
May you live with ease.


May all beings live in safety.
May all beings be happy.
May all beings be healthy.
May all beings live with ease.


May all beings everywhere live in safety.
May all beings everywhere be happy.
May all beings everywhere be healthy.
May all beings everywhere live with ease.

Source Adapted from: Rink. R. (2009). Buddhist Belief - Metta Meditation - Loving Kindness. Buddhist Belief Blog.

More Resources, More Versions Loving Kindness Meditation

This week you've already seen a couple of video posts on Loving Kindness Meditation, the first, a Loving Kindness Meditation Podcast, and the second, "How To Practice Buddhist Loving-Kindness Meditation."

Both of these resources have slightly different versions of the words used for a Loving Kindness Meditation.

Four additional resources have good information on Loving Kindness Meditations.

The first comes from "The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society" and is entitled, "The Tree of Contemplative Practices - Loving Kindness Meditation."

The second is a PDF File of a Patient Handout used by the University of Wisconsin's Integrative Medicine/Department of Family Medicine entitled, "Loving-Kindness Meditation"

The third is a series of links to MP3 audio files to different Mindful Meditations from MARC or the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. One of the resources includes a link to a Loving Kindness Meditation. (MARC is a part of the UCLA Cousins Psychoneuroimmunology Institute.)

The final resource is from Ron Rink of the Buddhist Belief Blog and is entitled, "Buddhist Belief – Metta Meditation — Loving Kindness."

How To Practice Buddhist Loving-Kindness Meditation

A How Cast video on Loving-Kindness Meditation. This instructional video has a lot of words to it, so do not listen to the video if you are hoping to relax.

How To Practice Buddhist Loving-Kindness Meditation on Howcast

Metta bhavana, or loving-kindness meditation, is one of the two simplest meditations in Buddhism. It helps develop positive feelings towards all other living creatures.

Loving Kindness Meditation Podcast

Sylvia Boorstein of Spirit Rock in Marin County, California guides viewers through a loving kindness meditation:

May I feel protected and safe

May I feel contented and pleased

May my physical body support me with strength

May my life unfold smoothly with ease.

Sylvia Boorstein Teaches Loving Kindness Meditation - Daily Path Podcast From MyPath TV

This universal teaching has a 2,500-year lineage traced to the Buddha, who is said to have originally taught the practice.

Quote for the Week - Loving Kindness

Thoughts for this week on Loving Kindness:

The perfection of loving-kindness is the wish to provide for the welfare and happiness of the world, accompanied by compassion and skilfull means;
literally it means benevolence.

A Treatise on the Paramis

Dhammapala

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