Sangha night - on metta
Online - an opportunity for friends to share and deepen their practice
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The third stage of metta
Tonight Cittamuni will explore the third stage of the metta practice; metta for a neutral person. In this stage, we are invited to spread our goodwill to someone for who we have no real connection. Feeling neither positively or negatively, our blank response often has underlying feelings of ambivalence, boredom or disinterest. The invitation to cultivate our goodwill towards this "everyday nobody" begins to stretch our capacity for kindness beyond "me" and "my world" and is a critical stage for developing friendliness without boundaries.
In this series we will:
- discuss what metta is
- explore different ways to open our hearts to cultivate positive emotion
- look at the role of body awareness, imagination and loving-kindness as way of being
- explore our own experience with developing friendliness in our lives and the effect this has had on our well-being and those who come into contact with us
Wednesday nights are a place for people who have attended our foundation courses to come together and celebrate community as well as an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the Buddha's teaching.
