How to Mediate with Metta

Mediation is mind management and helps us do just that. Mediation can be described as a continued, unbroken awareness of the mind in its raw state. It can overcome the distraction that is bustling around us, but we still focus on the minds mediation. People who meditate realize that they experience a beautiful inner space as they disengage from the outside world and they get ride of the suffering and feel pleasure.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

How to Mediate with Metta

1. Most people let their desires and ego cause suffering in their lives. This is a direct experience of the Dhamma, of the Four Noble Truths: Life means suffering, the origin of suffering is attachment, the cessation of suffering is attainable, and the path of cessation of suffering. We tend to lock ourselves into a condition of suffering by wanting things to be different from what they are.
2. Metta has been translated as the meditation on loving-kindness or compassion. We all need to use this to helps use love ourselves.
3. Practicing Metta Mediation allows one to engage in self-love, forgiveness, the love for others. Metta starts with ones self then progress to others.
4. The first part of Metta Mediation is to perform Metta Mantras to help ourselves achieved self-love. Start by using the first part of the Metta mantra with May I be…. Then adding the desire you want to achieve, like happy and peaceful. May I be happy and peaceful. I like to use May I be a strong today, May I be happy today, May I be kind to others, May I be self-loving today.
5. The second part is to learn to compassionate to others. Make it part of your daily routine to be kind to others. It can be a simple as opening a door for someone. Try and past this teaching on to your children, after all they are this world’s future. They need to know how to be compassionate and self-loving also.
6. Remember that you need to start with loving yourself than move to others.
   When you use the Metta Mantra for others you need to replace the word I with you. Here is a traditional Metta Mantra for you to chant for someone else.
7. May you be safe from inner and outer harm.
   May you be happy and peaceful.
   May you be healthy and strong.
   May you care for yourself and be joyfully.
8. This is for taking your Metta Mediation to a universal level. If you want to promote peace us this Mantra:
   May all beings, be free from hostility, afflictions, and distress; may their lives be peacefully and full of love.