FEBRUARY DHYANA/MEDITATION

Loving Kindness Meditation

Place your attention on the breath for a few moments.

Look into your heart and find your own capacity to love. Imagine it to be a beautiful flower that you are allowing to grow.

Let this beautiful flower expand, so that you are totally filled with the all encompassing aroma of love.

Give the gift of this flower of love to the people you feel close to. Make it as large as yourself and filled with this most wonderful aroma.

Now present this beautiful flower containing all your love to the people nearest and dearest to you. Make it large enough to fill each person from toe to head, and beautiful enough to arouse joy and delight.

Next, hand a flower to all your friends, giving each one the gift of love from your heart.

Now give a beautiful flower of love to all the people that come into your life – those whom you see often, and those that you have met only briefly. Let them all have the gift of love from you. Give each of them the most beautiful flower you can imagine.

Next hand the beautiful flower of love from your heart to a person whom you do not like. Let that person also have the same gift from you, making no distinctions between people.

Now make as many flowers of love grow in your heart as is possible. Hand all these beautiful flowers, so full of wonderful aroma and containing your love, to as many people that you can think of.