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Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 13 mentions

• looking some of those practices into the metta practice itself so that we've kind of got a refining of
• so that we've kind of got a refining of the metta practice that's possible and the compassion practice as possible i'll
• potentially be used as a kind of background within the metta practice so i want to offer some possibilities
• mentioned the other day in the talk the other night as we do the metta practice in a very nonlinear way there can be a
• so that we can be doing the metta practice and once directing attempting to direct the
• putting these inside ways of looking in the context of a metta practice sometimes you're doing the meta and you can just
• and there's possibility in the context of metta practice to open up that way and what can happen again instead of fear
• broadening my awareness in the meta practice i'm doing the metta practice but i just open it up a little bit and again
• compassion next week once doing the metta practice and just to drop in
• injecting some life sometimes into the metta practice so we're all in the same boat it's not a
• these possibilities in our buffet is is again you're doing the metta practice you're doing the compassion practice and
• already you can drop that in as a backdrop for for the metta practice so you open the awareness up and just
• the phrases out and and that that's what metta practice is it's it's not and as i said right at the beginning

Heart Work - (The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat) 11 mentions

• and a lot of nuance to it and that doing metta practice we learn a lot we learn an enormous amount about
• so sometimes we're doing the metta practice and i'm sure everyone has encountered uh
• currents the wind etc and practices just like that a metta practice in particular actually all practices like that
• something difficult is coming up in the context of a metta practice perhaps sadness perhaps anger irritation could
• job is as the sailor and i'm staying with the metta practice and in a way it's like yes you're here and i'm going to
• throwing all kinds of stuff and i am going to let the metta practice go the formal metta practice and actually turn
• going to let the metta practice go the formal metta practice and actually turn towards the difficulty and
• encountered this as uh i i have in the past that doing metta practice what comes up is the exact opposite of
• reality about it all metta practice is part of this it's part of this learning about the constructed
• things like that but one quality that feeds metta practice that feeds love is wonder
• narayan i was doing a lot of metta practice at one point and it was very very tearful for me there

The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 9 mentions

• it's relevant in terms of of this retreat of metta practice and as i say set up an orientation for the whole
• in working with the breath or doing a metta practice or an open vipassana practice when that's what's going on
• who's doing a practice like this like a metta practice or working with the breath or compassion or some kind of
• so in a way in particular in the context of metta practice catherine i spoke to catherine last night a couple of times
• non-duality and which can come out of samadhi practice and metta practice is that actually there's no way things are
• it's almost second nature to us part of the metta practice touching on this one is actually replacing
• years or something when i i just gave myself just to metta practice for that time so all my formal practice and as
• out of the samadhi so samadhi you know love comes from doing metta practice love also comes from doing insight practice
• skills in samadhi practice when the skills in metta practice is responsiveness so what is the way of

From Insight to Love - (Lovingkindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening) 8 mentions

• a as a sort of running alongside or backdrop to the metta practice what happens to heart what can happen to the
• contemplating this way particularly sometimes in the course of metta practice you can just bring in that contemplation
• so another possibility is to be doing the metta practice or the compassion practice when we move to it to be in the
• and in so doing the heart opens so to be doing the metta practice with actually a slightly larger sense of awareness
• in the moment when comparison is happening to kick the metta practice in to inject a bit more energy into the
• to inject a bit more energy into the metta practice is also helpful because it's like using the thinking that's
• and go to something either come back to a very basic metta practice or um or find some other contemplation that
• and deeper levels and you're in the content metta practice how do you know when to kind of

Samadhi in the Practice of Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 7 mentions

• deepening of the samadhi and and the metta practice as well so some people will be choosing
• there's different kinds of similarities so if you're doing metta practice you can just do metta practice and the emptiness
• so if you're doing metta practice you can just do metta practice and the emptiness practice that's totally fine so really
• um or the metta practice sensitive to the whole body so really letting the
• matter the metta practice there's actually a few things that are being balanced and
• practices somali deepens it's also important in metta practice that's the thing that you want to stay in contact
• these first two days we're just focusing on scenario metta practice okay uh man i think it's monday morning i'll introduce

Refining the Metta Practice (Question and Answer Session 1) - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 7 mentions

• um so when we're doing the metta practice we're actually working directly on the
• out of that insight arises and sometimes also out of the metta practice and some of you might have noticed this already
• um most people were fine with a lot of metta practice that it naturally will open up to a kind of infinite space
• is probably the most profound blessing of metta practice i'm not sure how much we're going to get into on this
• but i would say for everyone with a lot of metta practice it deepens into a different sense of things and there is a
• it just completes the richness of the metta practice so go for that if that's what's working for you but then
• level that we're reconditioning the heart and minds through metta practice does that make sense yeah

Judgment - (Cambridge Day Retreats) 6 mentions

• case of judgment so the first one is the metta practice and i'll explain what that is
• mind of the heart that's about habit and with the metta practice developing that solely over time we're we're
• pattern so this math practice metta practice is extremely powerful extremely powerful
• in a way you could say with with the metta practice one is planting seeds of intentionality in the mind and the heart
• google they've been quiet and do a little metta practice and then maybe you can join the grown-ups
• really really powerful practice so there's the metta practice and then there's this question of self

Love, Healing, and Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 6 mentions

• so some of you are doing metta practice as your kind of thing i want to talk about
• practices so sometimes you're sitting doing your metta practice your loving kindness practice and you don't feel
• about me it's not about me sometimes because actually metta practice is about me but in that moment just
• so for instance for you guys what would it be to be doing a metta practice or a compassion practice and then drop in the
• and for those of you who have spent a little time doing metta practice and loving kindness practice have you
• know you put just as a sort of crutch in the metta practice you put people in category as a sort of a

Question and Answer Session 2 - (Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)) 6 mentions

• the heart is is being pushed open a little bit with the metta practice and sometimes we we we're not used to
• things are really difficult during the metta practice not necessarily in a moment of real like it feels really easy
• several times here i am doing the metta practice and i'm going in and out of different states
• so this takes a lot of metta practice to to begin to see this a lot of metta practice
• this takes a lot of metta practice to to begin to see this a lot of metta practice um we tend to to believe our perceptions
• um please say more about your two years metta practice what did it involve what benefits did you notice and how and when

Love, Healing, and Emptiness - (Meditation on Emptiness) 6 mentions

• so some of you are doing metta practice as your kind of thing i want to talk about
• practices so sometimes you're sitting doing your metta practice your loving kindness practice and you don't feel
• about me it's not about me sometimes because actually metta practice is about me but in that moment just
• so for instance for you guys what would it be to be doing a metta practice or a compassion practice and then drop in the
• and for those of you who have spent a little time doing metta practice and loving kindness practice have you
• know you put just as a sort of crutch in the metta practice you put people in category as a sort of a