Woah, importance of Metta/love in meditation

[Ayham]

Okay so, my meditation stopped working or having effects on me since a while, I kind of plateaued, but recently I have discovered TWIM meditation, basically focusing on a feeling of loving kindness instead of some dry object like the breath. 

It is making meditation very enjoyable for me, and also curing my loneliness, and also healing my fucked up self esteem.

My suggestion is: if you have stopped getting results in meditation, or it is too much of a chore, try TWIMing!

 

Simple instructions 

Focus on radiating a feeling of loving kindness to yourself,  if it helps, you could imagine yourself, say some words like: may I be happy, may I be free of suffering, may I be well, may I be healthy, etc.

Once you got a feeling of loving kindness to yourself, just, radiate it more to yourself, focus on it.

Your meditation object is this sincerely kind intention of love towards yourself.

Maintain a gentle smile, just an upward turning of the corners of the mouth, feel the smile in your mind too.

You will do this for the third of the session (20 minutes of a 1 hour session, 10 minutes of a 30 minutes session)

For the remaining time, it's basically the same but choose to radiate this feeling to a spiritual friend.

Find someone alive who has to be from the same sex as you are, who is not family, focus on radiating this feeling to them.

How to deal with distractions

Now whenever you get distracted, implement the 6R's

"1. Recognize that attention has drifted away from the meditation object and become caught up in a distraction.

 

2. Release your attachment to the distracting thought or sensation by simply letting it be, and withdrawing attention from it. When you stop feeding the distraction with attention and energy, it will dissipate on its own.

 

3. Relax any remaining tightness and tension in the body, heart, and mind caused by the distraction.

 

4. Re-Smile. Restore the small smile to your lips, your eyes, and your heart, and with it the happy feeling of loving-kindness.

 

5. Return your attention back to the meditation object—the sincere wish for well-being toward yourself or your spiritual friend.

 

6. Repeat this series of steps whenever the mind becomes distracted and loses its meditation object."

Simple enough but it works wonders.

 

 The type of concentration is relaxed open concentration, not hardcore one pointed.

 

I am combining this with Kriya Supreme Fire personally.

 

 

Also fun fact, the buddha mentioned metta over 100 times in the suttas, while mentioning breath focus only 8 times I believe.

[Salvijus]

Metta goes really deep... 

 

Edited August 16, 2024 by Salvijus

[Salvijus]

1 hour ago, Ayham said:

Simple instructions 

Focus on radiating a feeling of loving kindness to yourself,  if it helps, you could imagine yourself, say some words like: may I be happy, may I be free of suffering, may I be well, may I be healthy, etc.

Once you got a feeling of loving kindness to yourself, just, radiate it more to yourself, focus on it.

Your meditation object is this sincerely kind intention of love towards yourself.

Maintain a gentle smile, just an upward turning of the corners of the mouth, feel the smile in your mind too.

You will do this for the third of the session (20 minutes of a 1 hour session, 10 minutes of a 30 minutes session)

For the remaining time, it's basically the same but choose to radiate this feeling to a spiritual friend.

Find someone alive who has to be from the same sex as you are, who is not family, focus on radiating this feeling to them.

These instructions are missing an important link.

Metta is not something one generates or creates. It's something that one has to allow to flow through them from the mind of God. Because most humans it's too difficult to connect to God directly, they need a middle man, a medium, like a lineage of angels and ascended masters that create a torrent or stream of light and love for others to tap and plug themselves into. Having that connection to your lineage is of paramount importance to really experience what metta is. The cascades of endless effortless outpouring of love and light that descends from above into the crown of your head, down to the rest of the body, blessing you, your surroundings, your bloodline and everyone connected to you. 

That video above does a decent explanation of what I'm talking about. 

Edited August 16, 2024 by Salvijus