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Loving-kindness meditation

August 20th, 2009

I wanted to share this learning I had today, and it is best described by a quick Google search, where I found the following from this website: http://www.buddhanet.net/metta_in.htm

An Overview of Loving-kindness Meditation

Loving-kindness meditation can be brought in to support the practice of ‘bare attention’ to help keep the mind open and sweet. It provides the essential balance to support your insight meditation practice.

It is a fact of life that many people are troubled by difficult emotional states in the pressured societies we live in, but do little in terms of developing skills to deal with them. Yet even when the mind goes sour it is within most people’s capacity to arouse positive feelings to sweeten it. Loving-kindness is a meditation practice taught by the Buddha to develop the mental habit of selfless or altruistic love. In the Dhammapada can be found the saying: “Hatred cannot coexist with loving-kindness, and dissipates if supplanted with thoughts based on loving-kindness.”
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Stress and Time Management

August 11th, 2009

BEFORE THE SEMINAR

I am currently stressing about attending this seminar. It is 1.23 pm and the seminar starts at 2.00pm, and here I am thinking to myself, why did I sign up?

Ah heck. I’ll get myself ready to attend. I have to walk down to lower campus, it’ll take about 7 minutes to get there. I still have time. Let’s see how it changes me, if at all, when I come back.

I’ll update this post in a little while.
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AFTER THE SEMINAR
4.25 pm

Okay, here’s my take-away for the day that I will share, and also to remind myself of it:

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
— Shakespeare (Hamlet)

Perhaps as I come across anything else I’ll keep on sharing them here.

Oh, and another thing, I found out that I really am stressed out these days. Here’s a simple test to find out if you are too:

Deep breathing exercise
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