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A striking fact about meditating on kindness is how little people do it. Even experienced meditators seem to avoid the practice

In my last-but-one post , I offered three general principles to apply when cultivating kindness in meditation. In this one, I'll be more...

If you've read my last post , then hopefully you've started to work on building up some awareness of your emotions in the area of the...

To cultivate kindness, you really need to involve the body, and more specifically, the heart. Because that really does seem to be where...

I once read in a book about Zen that after you do the gardening, you should clean your tools with great gentleness and care. It's a nice...

The most basic benefit that you'll get from cultivating kindness in meditation is that it will help you to keep on meditating. Whereas...

I said in my last post that we don't need to split hairs or pick nits when it comes to kindness, but there is one nitpick/hairsplit that...

Warm, fuzzy feelings have always been an integral part of meditation and mindfulness, and not just because meditators are hippies....