Living Our Love

As usual, we will begin with meditation, and a reading of The Metta Suta (page vii). We will start Chapter 11, Living Our Love in Sharon Salzberg‘s “Lovingkindness“. Page 145 of the 25th Anniv Edition.

What Comes Next: We will take a different tack when we finish Lovingkindness. We thought it might be fun to offer a podcast or video to share and discuss. When we sort out which one, or two, we'll post the links and also share it during our meeting.

Then, after Losar (Tibetan New Year) on February 19 or 26, we'll start our next book study: How Not to Miss the Point, by Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche. Links to purchase that book are here: Amazon Alibris

Discussions are rich and deep; we allow plenty of time to mine the gold in these pages.

Here is a link to 21 Translations of the Metta Sutta

Lovingkindness: the Revolutionary Art of Happiness, (find a copy by clicking the title link) by Sharon Salzburg.

This text is based on The Four Immeasurables of Love, Compassion, Empathetic Joy and Equanimity, which are the qualities of enlightenment that we aspire to accomplish through study, reflection and practice. Each week we will begin our sessions with an aspiration prayer and the Metta Suta before discussing the text.

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