Radiant Loving Kindness

Sundays 9:00 - 10:30 am

This six week online course is based on the Buddhist Metta Sutta and a Zen interpretation of it. Each week explores aspects of loving kindness and employs four different guided meditations on the same. Exploring different experiences of loving kindness in this way, we will become more familiar with how that state feels in the body, heart, and mind. Related states of gratitude, openness, joy, generosity, and more are also developed as we practice with the divine emotion of loving kindness. 

One’s longing for belonging, purpose, and agency begin to be resolved with the practice of loving kindness because what this practice makes clear is, for one thing, that we live in relation to each other and to our environments. As much as we are dependent on others and our environment they are dependent on us. For another, we become more aware that our words and actions and the motivation behind those words and actions have resonance and that even the smallest thing has import and requires care. Devotion to ripening our hearts may seem inadequate in the enormity of the world’s many challenges. Yet it may be the one thing that makes a difference and to be in this world with love and kindness is enormously courageous. 

Cost is on a sliding scale and includes teacher fees.

Sarah Carlin-Ball is a Sangha Leader mentoring with Bill Knight in the Muskoka Mindfulness Community. She has practiced for many years with Terry Hagan and Mala Sikka, core teachers at the Dharma Centre of Canada and studied intensively for four years with non-dual teacher Matt Flickstein. Her sharing of mindfulness and the dharma comes from the depth of her own practice of twelve years and the wisdom and compassion of the many teachers who have enlivened it.