Four Brahmaviharas
In this talk today I will be discussing love and compassion. In my earlier talk on Equanimity (included in the Spring 2022 edition of this newsletter), I discussed the idea that as human beings, we have the tendency to dwell upon things that are negative. That includes negativities within ourselves. Either we simply indulge in them mindlessly, with feelings such as anger, resentment, spite, and many other forms of negative feelings and emotions, harbouring various types of unwholesome thoughts or even if we try to overcome them, we do so by dwelling on them. Dwelling on our own feeling of hurt, rejection, guilt, shame, and so on are tendencies that come naturally to us.