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Two Stories and One Word
Love | Metta
A couple of weeks ago, I was in the middle of teaching a four-session mindfulness series to corporate professionals at a large pharmaceutical company. Each session was an hour long, and we met every Friday in May during the lunch hour, virtually. It was one of the most intimate and meaningful things I have done in a long time.
In the first two sessions, I did what felt to me were the “easy” teachings — basics of mindfulness and guided practices for mindfulness of breath and body.
When I got to the third session, I made a decision that felt a little risky to me. I decided I was going to teach Metta — a Pali word for loving kindness.
I went back and forth about it.
Should I? Shouldn’t I? Would it land?
Would it feel out of place in this setting, esp. where people had just come from back-to-back meetings and were probably eating a sandwich at their desk or commuting back home on a Friday afternoon?
