Research on loving-kindness meditation has linked it with more positive emotion and a greater sense of connection with others. But you don’t need a study to feel what happens in your chest when you think of someone you love. That softening is the whole point.
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How do we believe justice has been served when there is no evidence of remorse that we can see?
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Some Buddhist traditions are not helpful in regards to being comfortable with our meditation experiences. Especially those that insist that they belong to an unbroken chain of highly enlightened individuals whose experience has to be matched if you want to belong.
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But even though I have found peace and stillness through my meditation practice and Buddhist teachings, I still grieve.
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One summer, the rain did not come. The streams slowed, and the air thickened. Passerby’s worried for the Lotus; they built a channel to bring water from the hills to the pond below. The water came trickling in clear, cold, and full of mountain spirit. And in it, drifting upon a twig, was a single Wildflower seed.
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