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**layevymed** · 03-29-2012, 01:03 PM

Simply put, it is hard for me to understand compassion. I understand on some basic level that it is good, but in my life, I have become rather paranoid, and see compassion as weakness. This coupled with my familiarity with anger has brought my practicing to a halt. While I can understand why anger is wrong, and why it causes suffering, I am so used to it, that it feels like home.

We all respond to goodwill and loving kindness (Metta)from others and it opens up the heart and lessens anger to practice it regularly ourselves. This is a 5 minute instruction for Metta practice and you can find more resources for metta in a meditation thread in our study links section.

If you want to start a separate thread, please feel free to do so, by the way.

03-29-2012, 01:03 PM	#21
layevymed Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	Simply put, it is hard for me to understand compassion. I understand on some basic level that it is good, but in my life, I have become rather paranoid, and see compassion as weakness. This coupled with my familiarity with anger has brought my practicing to a halt. While I can understand why anger is wrong, and why it causes suffering, I am so used to it, that it feels like home. We all respond to goodwill and loving kindness (Metta)from others and it opens up the heart and lessens anger to practice it regularly ourselves. This is a 5 minute instruction for Metta practice and you can find more resources for metta in a meditation thread in our study links section. If you want to start a separate thread, please feel free to do so, by the way.
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