Boundless (Immeasurable) Loving Kindness

Continuing our “Bodhicitta Workout,” expanding our capacity of heart, we’ve now come to the training on Loving Kindness. Remember, we’re working with strong feelings of love, which we then step out in concentric circles, just as we do with Boundless Equanimity and with Compassion in Tonglen. As with the others, I strongly recommend starting with yourself, or if that’s not so easy for you, someone for whom Loving Kindness comes easily.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama was absolutely amazed when longtime Western Dharma students told him that most Westerners weren’t so sure they loved themselves. He thought all of us humans loved ourselves