Over the years that I have been meditating, the one type of meditation I struggled to come to grips with for a long time was loving- kindness – or metta – meditation. I first encountered metta meditation not in a monastery or meditation group but in a karate class when I was 16. The last thing I expected to learn in a karate class was how to feel warmly toward myself and others. Then again, here was a stocky, rock-fisted Irishman with decades of experience teaching karate telling us that metta meditation would help us control our emotions. Eventually, I started to include metta meditation in my practice but I could feel resistance at a certain point.

Source: The Star July 06, 2021 09:56 UTC