Via Lion's Roar // May you live with Peas

How to Practice Metta with Children

by Gail Silver| August 1, 2018

You’re never too young to practice loving-kindness. Gail Silver on how to teach metta to your kids.

Illustrations by Tomi Um.

When I returned home after attending my first silent retreat, I was overflowing with loving-kindness and found myself spontaneously reciting certain phrases of the Metta Prayer aloud:

May you be happy.
May you be safe.
May you be strong.
May you live with ease.

“Did you just tell me to live with ‘peas’?” my littlest one asked me. “No, honey,” I laughed. “I said, ‘ease.’ May you live with ease.”

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Via Lion's Roar // A New Year's Blessing

 

How to Establish a Daily Practice of Almost Anything, in 6 Steps

Whatever new leaf you’re thinking about turning over for 2021, Anne Cushman has some smart advice to help you succeed.

Going to a retreat or program is a wonderful way to deepen our meditation practice. But how do we stay connected with these waking-up practices when we go home to the myriad projects, emails, responsibilities, and distractions waiting for us? This is a question that applies not just to meditation, yoga, and other spiritual practices, but to any creative art we want to commit to, such as painting, writing, or playing an instrument.

Baba Yetu - Angel City Chorale, June 2019

Via Daily Dharma: Go to the Edge

 Go to the edge of your practice, where you step into what you do not know.

—Ken McLeod, “Beyond Question”

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