January 06, 2025

 I'm going to start tonight a series of heart practice teachings and practices. We'll start with Loving kindness tonight. 

 So the Buddha said, “This is what I did and it led me to a place of compassion and of loving kindness and of equanimity, appreciation, it ended suffering. And when suffering was ended, what remained was a feeling of loving kindness for all living beings, feeling of compassion for all living beings, a feeling of equanimity and appreciation.”

But in the teaching in the Eightfold Path, he doesn't say anything about loving kindness and compassion.  He says, “Here's what you do, and the outcome will be loving kindness and compassion.” Mindfulness will lead to compassion. As you are mindful and we turn towards our pain, you will develop compassion for pain. 

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