24 January 2554
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Meditation
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Meditation for Peace
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">By Luang Phaw Dhammajayo
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The sharing of loving kindness is something we can do
everyday, both before and after daily meditation. A brief period of
sharing loving kindness before meditating, softens and broadens our minds. The
sharing of loving kindness as such helps improve our meditation experience. A
brief session of sharing loving kindness after meditation spreads the purity of
our meditated minds around ourselves first, and subsequently towards others.
The benefits of sharing loving kindness everyday include radiating a happy
feeling when we are awake and asleep. If we have dreams, they will be sweet and
auspicious. We will be rid of anger and we will be positive thinkers.
Most
importantly, it will greatly help to improve our meditation. We can share
loving kindness simply by doing the following:
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Before ending our meditation session and when our minds come
to a standstill and hence filled with happiness, we can actually share loving
kindness, good wishes and peacefulness with all other people in the world. We
can start by focusing our stilled mind at the centre of our body where we feel
true love and good wishes towards all beings. Let all good feelings coalesce
into a bright crystal sphere filled with love and good wishes. Without any
effort, imagine the crystal sphere of love and good wishes expanding in all
directions from the body’s centre towards all other beings. Wish everyone
freedom from suffering, and ultimately help them attain extreme happiness from
meditation. Meditation brings our mind back to its original pure state. Furnish
them with the ability to incorporate attained happiness to enrich their perfect
and virtuous daily lives. The lives they lead will therefore prove beneficial
for themselves and others.
">Feel the expansion of our bright spherical minds all around
ourselves and towards people in our surroundings regardless of whether they are
near or far.
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Expand our minds to cover our site for meditation and continually
outwards until it covers the whole sky. Feel unlimited love and kindness
towards people of the world in every continent and elsewhere, irrespective of
their nationalities, religions and ethnicities. Let our minds connect with all
others.
Wish them happiness, wish every country prosperity and hope that the world
will be filled with only good people who bring true peace and happiness to
humankind. Let the purity of our still minds expand from the centre towards
other people of the world who are suffering as a result of war, to attain true
peace. Wish that everyone will stop taking advantage of one another and are
determined to turn the dark side of their minds into kind and loving minds.
">The purity of our minds during meditation radiate radiate
outwards as a mass of purity, silently into the atmosphere. The purity cleanses
defilements and darkness from our own minds and others. Their minds and our
minds become bright and clear, hence we can now lead our lives in the right
direction – a direction towards happiness and virtue. Eventually, we will
change the world and bring true peace to the world.
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