OK, OK, I'll do the lovingkindness stuff.
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I mostly hear it mentioned as a way to deal w/extreme post-awakening mood swings. Therapy isn't possible right now, so I'm short on options.
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Ah. Maybe. I'd tend to think it would make them worse, because the world is in a shit state right now. What does think about it?
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already told me to do it at least twice. Think it was mostly meant to help me not be so harsh on myself, if I understood him.
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I begin to feel like a parrot these days with regards to advice on the book "the mind illuminated". Btw, I have not done metta/loving kind
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but have read enough about others doing it. I tend to agree with . Try one thing, shift attention to cultivating JOY
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Interestingly, that's the version of metta I've been sold a lot of the time. It's like vipassana - means what the speaker wants it to mean.
There's a few different ways to do things. The book Franklin suggests has a standard Metta in it but is mostly a shamatha manual.
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There are some non-joy Shamatha techniques. That book has some of them, others discuss them as well. Will talk when we talk.
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