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Authors: Jeffrey Hopkins
Tags: #Health & Fitness, #Yoga, #Body; Mind & Spirit, #Meditation, #Religion, #Buddhism, #General, #Tibetan
First Step: Recognizing Friends
Second Step: Appreciating Kindness
Visualize your prime nurturer, vividly in front, and think:
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If you use as a model a person other than your mother, recall in detail the kindnesses he or she extended.
Having understood the kindness of your prime nurturer of this lifetime, extend this understanding gradually to other friends, then neutral persons, and finally enemies.
Third Step: Returning Kindness
Think:
Extend the example:
In response to being cared for by others in this and other lifetimes, develop a determination to help them in whatever way is appropriate:
Commit to their welfare.
Fourth Step: Love
Starting with your best friend, think:
Continue the same meditation with respect to more and more friends until this wish for happiness and all the causes of happiness is equally strong for all of them, and then consider neutral beings and finally enemies.
Then intensify the feeling, starting with friends, with:
Extend the same wish to neutral beings, and enemies.
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Then intensify the feeling, starting with friends, with:
Extend the same wish to neutral beings, and enemies.
Fifth Step: Compassion
Bring to mind a friend who has obvious pain, and think:
Visualize a friend who, even though not blatantly suffering, will suffer in the future due to substantial counterproductive actions of the kind that we all have committed over the course of beginningless time. Think:
Slowly extend this meditation person by person, first with more friends, then with neutral persons, and finally with enemies, eventually including all sentient beings throughout space.
Then intensify the feeling, starting with friends, then neutral persons, and then enemies:
Extend the same wish to neutral beings, and enemies.
Then intensify the feeling, starting with friends, then neutral persons, and then enemies:
Extend the same wish to neutral beings, and enemies.
Sixth Step: Total Commitment
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Seventh Step: Seeking Altruistic Enlightenment
Analyze whether in your present state you have the capacity to bring about the welfare of all beings by freeing them from suffering and joining them with happiness.
Think:
and say:
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