Metta

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” (Often attributed to Buddha, but may not be the case).

I’m facing challenges at the moment that sometimes feel impossible and often feel unfair. I don’t feel patience is one of my virtues, but maybe that is what I need to keep working on and so I’m being given challenges in order to help me develop it ;) Handily, I’m still making good use of the Buddhist meditation book I was given, and so have been thinking a lot about metta (for a definition see for example http://www.wildmind.org/metta/introduction/what-is-metta). Right now, I’m not feeling loving kindness _from_ everyone in my life – but my aim is to keep working on my own feelings of loving kindness towards myself and others, so that irrespective of how people are with me, I can be as loving as I possibly can be back. I still have some way to go! But I’m clear about my goal and that is a great start!!