may i ...

hello!

happy & blessed week 2 of 2020 

from a young age

i've always loved prayers & blessings

one of my all-time favourite "spiritual" experiences

was attending a weekend metta retreat

here in vancouver

learning the practice of loving-kindness

we spent the entire time in meditation

silently saying prayers for ourself & others

it was profoundly beautiful

recently this metta prayer came into my inbox

and i love it

i been saying it for the past few days

⭐️

may i be filled with loving-kindness

may i be well

may i be peaceful & at ease

may i be happy

in the metta tradition

these offerings of good wishes and benevolence 

begin with ourself

may i ...

then we expand the offerings to include someone we love

may you ...

and we expand further to include someone who is more neutral to us

perhaps someone we see in our life, but we don't know their name

perhaps a stranger we meet

may you ...

and then finally we expand our hearts even more to include who might be considered an "enemy"

someone where there's unresolved hard energy

may you ...

no one is left out

every being is included

many variations of metta prayers exist 

they're all beautiful

and are all effective

we can see that this is a heart opening practice

a way to soften and expand the heart

a way to liberate the old

a way to create space

may you be filled with loving-kindness

may you be well

may you be peaceful & at ease

may you be happy

happy playing with praying!

infinite love & blessings ~ moni

📷 amaryllis at my mom's kitchen window

see the kitchen witch in the bottom photo?!