Daily Meditation and Blessings Chanting at Lankarama Buddhist Temple. All are welcome.
Bhante Devananda Loving Kindness Dhamma Message Vassa Rain Retreat Lankarama Buddhist Temple CA USA
During Loving Kindness meditation, you recite positive phrases toward yourself and other people. The practice aims to foster a mental state of kindness, love, and compassion. When done regularly, Loving Kindness meditation can help minimize negative emotions toward yourself and others.
Venerable Thalangama Devananda Maha Thero (Bhante Devananda) was born in 1972. He was ordained June 17, 1982 and took high ordination (Upasampada) ten years later under Bhante Anuruddha. Bhante Devananda is the Abbot (Vihara Dipati) and Meditation Instructor of Indiana Buddhist Temple.
What Is Loving-Kindness Meditation? Loving-Kindness Meditation focuses on developing feelings of goodwill, kindness, and warmth towards others (Salzberg, 1997). As I’ve described in my TEDx talk, compassion, kindness, and empathy are very basic emotions to us. Research shows that Loving-Kindness Meditation has tremendous benefits from greater well-being to providing relief from illness and improving emotional intelligence.