{"id":907,"date":"2012-05-29T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2012-05-29T11:48:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:48:49","slug":"meditation-on-lovingkindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"Meditation on &#8220;Lovingkindness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>May you feel safe.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>May you feel content.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>May you feel strong.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>May you feel at ease.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>-Sylvia Boorstein\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Lovingkindness&#8221; is one of the four minds of love. It refers to an attitude of friendship for everything and everybody. In the Spiral Staircase, Armstrong says &#8220;&#8230;if we deny our own pain, it is all too easy to dismiss the suffering of others.&#8221;\u00a0The positive form of this statement says that we can show kindness toward others once we have been able to be kind to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The following video is an example of this process. In the least, I hope it provides a few relaxing minutes. At most&#8230; well, let your imagination run wild.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lovingkindness (Metta) Meditation with Sylvia Boorstein\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20121374?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May you feel safe. May you feel content. May you feel strong. May you feel at ease. -Sylvia Boorstein\u00a0 &#8220;Lovingkindness&#8221; is one of the four minds of love. It refers to an attitude of friendship for everything and everybody. In the Spiral Staircase, Armstrong says &#8220;&#8230;if we deny our own pain, it is all too easy to dismiss the suffering<a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=907\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,24],"tags":[42,23,26,46],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mindfulness-2","category-miscellaneous","tag-charter-for-compassion","tag-empathy","tag-mindfulness","tag-self"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blue-hearts.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}