Metta Matters by By Kyle Thomas Smith For the past year or so, - TopicsExpress

Metta Matters by By Kyle Thomas Smith For the past year or so, I have tried to apply a teaching in my metta practice that I first learned from Gina Sharpe, the Guiding Teacher at New York Insight. As I recall—and forgive me, Gina, if I don’t have this quite right—Gina said that, years ago, she had found a passage in the Metta Sutta where the Buddha advises the monks to begin each formal practice of loving-kindness meditation by recalling both (a) a moment where they did not use anger skillfully and came to regret it and (b) a moment where they refrained from acting on their anger, thus averting a potentially disastrous situation. Gina said that heeding this instruction has transformed her practice, so I decided to incorporate it into mine as well. As a result, I have found that, when triggered, I am more apt to pause and observe than to explode. Recently, however, I was confronted with a scenario where I did not act on my anger and, while I think that’s good, I also have to admit that I might have admired someone who did confront the situation I am about to describe. j.mp/LayingTheGhostOfTheInnerCritic Photo by Michael van Emde Boas

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