The Practice of Loving Kindness for All Kinds of Beings

In the monastery, you learn this practice of tenderness toward what's there. Most hard for ourselves. We try and direct metta toward ourselves. And often people say, it feels weird. There's so much, as my colleagues have talked about, a commonle of self judgment and self hatred. So we start with meta for ou selves, and then we suffuse the world in all these different directions with it. But as you've discovered, it doesn't always happen in ha easy way, right? One woman was having a big struggle with metta. It felt so dry, no feelings would come, and she wanted them. I told her, it's more like planting