I really find metta practice coming to me in a effortless way these days, just doing daily walk about’s wherever I am at the moment, and let the mind pick and choose from a vast library of music, poetry, movies, happy meetings before and now, and basically don’t minding all of these zombies around me
Zombies, because they are not here, they are off to somewhere planned, and all of them just rushing bye …- **good bye good bye **: , I say silently when moving about feeling fine
Maybe a billboard sign arises on the way, maybe with a sentence contains a word that resonates with citta, like “flying” … which then the mind suggest’s this dear song from the past to build a stronger and more powerful metta in the mind and body
https://youtu.be/xf0_3DsAkt0
Another great tool for metta practice is to look into a strangers eyes and just “let it flow”, it’s amazing how funny and uplifting this is, and how easy. When one is kind at heart, one’s eyes won’t wobble looking into a strangers eyes and at the same time uttering kind words while letting the eye movements live in full free flow … pure Healing, I say
It’s easier than looking into eyes of one you know, or think you know, and vice versa - then one is attacked by all these expectations, own and the other and so on - but when one find a perfect moment, and look into the eyes of one you love, and say it directly into “the eye” … just wow …
About looking: If this is going to work, one has to hold it! - don’t look away because one gets doubts and sensations in the body - just know that this is just fear, and if one is to move further, one has to get to know what “fear” is, and realize that it is a “bluff”, but a very solid one i say. Hold It! and exchange metta, or build up metta by exchanging feelings with solid eye contact, yes it is CONTACT - Emptiness to Emtiness!
Peter is my Rock, and we often walk along in silence or singing together, don’t minding anything at all, here today gone tomorrow
https://youtu.be/evN6DIGPIJM
Sometimes i say a lot …
And many apologies if I offend somebody thinking that this is not “teravada metta mediatation”, I do all that makes me kind, and besides, my wife say i am! …