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Exploring Social Metta Meditation Practices
This chapter delves into the challenges of adapting traditional metta meditation practices into a social context, focusing on simplifying the practice for group settings. The discussion emphasizes sincere intentions and connecting with one's deepest desires while expressing positive wishes for oneself, the group, and all beings. An advanced social meditation practice is explored using metaphors like being in a supermarket, emphasizing vulnerability, shared well-wishing, and the contrast with prevailing attitudes of cynicism in society.