Article by Chimi
There are many different kinds of Loving Kindness meditations (also known as Metta). The goal of Loving Kindness is to develop equanimity, where all people are deserving of love. This Loving Kindness Meditation incorporates Reiki by saying a mantra so one can go deeper in sending loving kindness to all sentient beings.
Let’s start with Altruistic Motivation (Aspiration Bodhicitta)
“All mother sentient beings boundless as the sky.
Especially those enemies who hate me,
Obstructers who harm me, and those who create obstacles towards my liberation and all-knowingness.
May they experience happiness and be separated by suffering.
And swiftly will I establish them in the state of unsurpassed, completely perfected, and precious enlightenment.” (3x)
Prayer from Diamond Rosary, page 36
As I begin this practice, Reiki in the form of a bright white light comes down from the Cosmos into my crown. I ask that Reiki fill my body, speech, and mind with loving kindness.
My heart is now open to sending loving kindness to myself and others.
Yourself
I have known you for a long time.
I live in your body
I think your thoughts
I have experienced what you have experienced.
I share your dreams, hopes, and fears.
And you deserve a happiness that you can create internally, and so I open my heart and send you gentleness.
I visualize white light coming from my heart center. Around this white light is green, blue, gold, and purple light. The white light fills my body, which becomes clear as crystal. The green, blue, gold, and purple light travel from my heart space along the channels in my body. (Trying to continue the visualization, using 108 mala bead necklace and repeat what is in quotes)
To Myself… “Be happy, Be well, Be safe, Be peaceful and at ease” (x3, x21, x108)
Your dear one
I would die so you could live
The line, between who you are and who I am, blurs.
Just thinking about you brings a smile to my face.
The feeling that arises cannot be contained.
I want you to have the world and more
And will do what I have to for you to have it
Your happiness is my happiness. My heart is always open to you and I am always sending you gentleness.
I continue visualizing white light coming from my heart center, surrounded by green, blue, gold, and purple light. The light coming from my heart space enters into the heart space of my dear one, filling their whole body with light, which becomes clear as crystal. The green, blue, gold, and purple lights travel from my dear one’s heart space along the channels in their body. (Trying to continue the visualization, using 108 mala bead necklace and repeat what is in quotes)
My dear one… “Be happy, Be well, Be safe, Be peaceful and at ease” (x3, x21, x108)
My neutral person
I don’t know you, even though I see you regularly.
At the bus stop, the library, church, or work.
Name, age, politics, economic status…all unknown and that is ok.
Yet we are connected as two beings in this realm.
I just cannot judge you or place expectations on you.
Our connectedness makes your happiness important to me, so I open my heart and send you gentleness.
I continue visualizing white light coming from my heart center, surrounded by green, blue, gold, and purple light. The light coming from my heart space enters into the heart space of my neutral one, filling their whole body with light, which becomes as clear as crystal. The green, blue, gold, and purple lights travel from my neutral one’s heart space along the channels in their body. (Continue the visualization, using 108 mala bead necklace and repeat what is in quotes)
My neutral one… “Be happy, Be well, Be safe, Be peaceful and at ease” (x3, x21, x108)
My difficult one
Somewhere along the way, I hurt you or you hurt me
The pain tore at the fabric of our relationship
And things got so bad we don’t remember what went wrong
We have learned to live this way with one another.
Please forgive me for the hurt I caused in this.
Please give me the chance to make it right.
And so I open my heart and send you gentleness.
I continue visualizing white light coming from my heart center, surrounded by green, blue, gold, and purple light. The light coming from my heart space enters into the heart space of my difficult one, filling their whole body with light, which becomes as clear as crystal. The green, blue, gold, and purple lights travel from my difficult one’s heart space along the channels in their body. (Continue the visualization, using 108 mala bead necklace and repeat what is in quotes)
My difficult one… “Be happy, Be well, Be safe, Be peaceful and at ease” (x3, x21, x108)
To all sentient beings
We are all connected.
We share a community, a neighborhood, a city, a state, a country, a hemisphere, a planet, a universe.
Our existence means we are inherently connected,
And so I send all sentient beings gentleness.
I continue visualizing white light coming from my heart center, surrounded by green, blue, gold, and purple light. The light from coming from my heart space enters into the heart space of all sentient beings, filling their whole bodies with light, which becomes as clear as crystal. The green, blue, gold, and purple lights travel from heart space of all sentient beings along the channels in their body. (Continue the visualization, using 108 mala bead necklace and repeat what is in quotes)
All sentient beings… “Be happy, Be well, Be safe, Be peaceful and at ease” (x3, x21, x108)
May loving kindness be inherent to mindfulness
As I go about my day, may I send it out to myself,
Without judging whether I deserve it or not
May I send it out to all sentient beings,
Without judging whether they deserve it or not
May I increase the number of dear ones through this practice
So that one day I will have no neutral or difficult people in my life.
May all be happy, well, safe, peaceful and at ease.
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Chimi is a Reiki Master Teacher and Certified Crystal Therapy Practitioner. She mixes Tibetan Buddhism and Roman Catholicism to create a unique spirituality that includes crystals, Reiki, meditation, prayers, Buddhist deities, and Catholic Saints. She is also interested in EFT and looking for ways to incorporate it into meditation and Reiki. She often uses the Chakras as a guide when meditating and creating meditations.
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