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Via GBF // "Boundless Loving-Kindness (Metta)" with Dave Richo

Our latest dharma talk is now available:

How can we continue to stretch our sense of loving-kindness to include all beings?

In this talk, Dave Richo explores the practice of loving-kindness (metta) in Buddhism, emphasizing its expansive nature. Using an analogy from Romeo and Juliet, Dave explains that love is boundless, reaching beyond our immediate relationships to encompass all beings. He introduces the concept of concentric circles, where love radiates from ourselves to our close ones, those we are neutral toward, marginalized individuals, and even those we struggle with, eventually encompassing all beings. The core idea is that as we give love, it grows in abundance, benefiting both us and others.

Dave encourages us to include in our loving-kindness practice:

Self-love: Starting with extending kindness to ourselves, as we can’t offer to others what we don’t have.
Expanding circles: Extending love outward from family and friends to neighbors, marginalized groups, and enemies.
Compassion for all beings: Wishing well even to those who harm us, recognizing that everyone seeks happiness and is capable of transformation. By cultivating this mindset daily, we can contribute to a more just, peaceful, and loving world.

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Boundless Loving-Kindness (Metta) – Dave Richo | Gay Buddhist Fellowship

Boundless Loving-Kindness (Metta) - Dave Richo 2024-10-13

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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering

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RIGHT VIEW
Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering

And what is the way leading to the cessation of suffering? It is just this noble eightfold path: that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. (MN 9)

Reflection

Understanding that suffering has a cause and can be cured is one thing, but managing to bring about that cure is a formidable challenge: “Just stop craving, and your suffering will disappear! How hard can that be?” As it turns out, it can be very hard indeed. The way out of suffering, woven from the elements of the eightfold path, needs to be crafted anew by each culture, each generation, each person.

Daily Practice

The practice of walking the path leading to the cessation of suffering has always been a creative project. Since every moment of every person’s experience is new and unique, the blueprint of the eightfold path has to be interpreted flexibly. Find your own distinctive way of understanding these timeless universal principles and applying them to the many challenges of your life and its unique set of changing circumstances.

Tomorrow: Cultivating Equanimity
One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of Suffering

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Everyone Is Worthy

Anyone has the capacity for awakening, everyone is worthy.

Kate Tsuruharatani, “Practicing Dana, Sila, and Bhavana as I Transition”

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How to stay faithful to both a tradition and ourselves.

Wise Effort and the Window of Tolerance
With Jake Dartington

A new Dharma Talk is available now! Explore the idea of the ‘Window of Tolerance’ and the Buddhist teachings on right/wise effort with teacher Jake Dartington.

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