Why Loving Kindness Takes Time Sharon Salzberg
Loving-kindness is meant to be done in the easiest way possible so that the experience springs forth most gently, most naturally. To do it in the most easiest way possible means first to use phrases that are personally meaningful. The traditional phrases as are taught, at least this one classical translation of them, begins with oneself: May I be free from danger, may I know safety. Danger in that sense is both inner danger from the force of certain mind states, and outer danger....