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Dharma Talks
2022-11-03 Guided loving-kindness meditation 44:32
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the importance of kindness for ourselves. This is followed by a guided meditation that includes receiving kindness, kindness for a benefactor, and kindness for oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2022-10-19 Meditation: Letting Life Be 23:14
Tara Brach
This meditation establishes an atmosphere of loving kindness with the “smile”; relaxes and awakens through the body; and guides us into a spacious presence. We then rest in that presence, letting go of any controlling, and simply allow life to be as it is. It’s in “letting be” that we come home to the luminosity and tenderness of natural awareness. We close with a verse from Mary Oliver…
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-10-03 Beacon of Love Meditation 24:46
Jack Kornfield
Some of you may have your own way of practicing metta/lovingkindess meditation. Others may want to listen and follow along—but it’s not a rigid practice. Do whatever most naturally opens the heart. For some people, the recitation of words—which we’ll do—may be helpful. For others, it’s more helpful to simply sit in a field of love and radiate kindness without a lot of words, specific language, or intention. Whatever floats your heart—follow that into goodness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-09-29 Abiding in Metta that Abounds 41:43
Ayya Dhammadīpā
guided meditation radiating metta loving kindness
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2022-09-15 Lake of Lovingkindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 23:25
Diana Winston
This playful guided meditation invites us to jump into a lake of kindness and bring our friends, acquaintances, and difficult people along.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: The Basics and Beyond

2022-09-13 Lovingkindness Meditation for Beginners (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:29
Diana Winston
This recording includes a 51 minute overview introducing the theory and practice of loving-kindness. Then a 20 minute guided loving-kindness meditation focusing on easy person and self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: The Basics and Beyond

2022-09-07 Metta (loving-kindness) Practice 25:59
Anushka Fernandopulle
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2022-09-07 Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence 20:49
Tara Brach
This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changing waves of sensations, sounds and feelings in the foreground. As we let go into the sea of presence, we discover am increasing sense of wholeness and peace. The meditation ends with a brief lovingkindness prayer.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-08-23 Guide metta: loving kindness for self, friend, and enemy 45:33
Matthew Hepburn
A brief story on development of metta for the enemy followed by guided practice for three categories using phrases
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-08-18 Guided Loving-Kindness and Compassion Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:59
Kristina Bare
Loving-kindness and compassion as support for deepening samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Concentration

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