Q6-19880716-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-questions_and_answers-1554 Leandra Tejedor (1)

Talk: 19880716-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-questions_and_answers-1554 Leandra Tejedor Start_time: 01:04:25 Display_question: Do you ever include suffering in Metta meditation, like in other traditions? Keyword_search: Metta meditation, Buddhist, suffering, compassion Question_content: Questioner: I have kind of a more technical question. Larry: Is it about your practice? Questioner: No, it's about Metta meditation. In other Buddhist tradition, you start Metta meditation with meditation on suffering, because without understanding suffering, there is no consequence of Metta. Now, the way we did this yesterday was without that part. Larry: Did you find it valuable? Questioner: Yes. Larry: Okay. Questioner: Now, I was wondering if there is any consideration for that. Larry: Well, but it's almost yes, I hear what you're saying. The notion of human suffering, is so deep in this teaching, the acknowledgment of it, that it would be hard to, not have that as a context. But you mean a specific meditation, to deepen that, at that moment? Yeah. Questioner: Just another response to that. I think it's impossible to develop one without the other. If one does Metta meditation and compassion comes concurrently and vice versa. So, they are really not discreet at all. Larry: Okay. What is your view on that ground? Questioner: I would be happy to sit if you guided a meditation with suffering with Metta meditation. It's another way of doing it. Larry: It sounds great. I mean, it sounds very useful. But even out of context, we do use Metta meditation, as we did, and I don't know, if you found it beneficial, then use it. It might be more beneficial if preceded by that. End_time: 01:06:18