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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

@leashless

. 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.

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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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A lot depends on /what/ is flying apart, why.

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, I have not "woken" so big disclaimer from me with regards to experiential wisdom. But I know the selling points of the book, it

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is basically when you develop shamata practice sufficiently in that method, you dwell in more tranquil waters when all the crap comes up

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Thanks, I'll talk to Ian about it when we get around to it. Sounds like something I could try.

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