Heart Work - (The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat) @boubabuddha

Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Talk titled: "Heart Work", given during the event "The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2010-08-08.

Topics covered: metta, metta: navigating (sailing) practice when smooth or difficult, working with difficult emotions / sensations / energies, emotions, metaphors: water, liquid, emotions, skill with, practice as kindness, wonder, metta: practicing with the body, metta: ways of practicing without phrases

Teacher's note on suitability: to really care for ourselves includes both learning to work skillfully with difficult emotions, and developing, deepening and refining the practice of metta, in meditation and in the world. this talk begins to explore both of these dimensions in some detail.
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Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9982
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/9445f1fc152678e9202450645fa42359/ef95e2ef/2010_0808HeartWork.pdf

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