Personalize Your Loving Kindness Meditation
The aim is to find language that evokes the attitude of loving-kindness and compassion. Here are some guidelines: Phrases should be simple, clear, authentic, and kind. There should be no argument in the mind when we offer ourselves a loving-kindness phrase, only gratitude. You don’t need to use “may I.” Loving-kindness phrases are wishes. “May I” is simply an invitation to incline the heart in a positive direction, meaning “If all the conditions would allow it to be so, then…” The phrases are like blessings....