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**antiggill** · 08-10-2012, 02:18 AM

Hi Kered,

You might like to explore the resources in the 'Meditation' thread in our Study Links section at the bottom of the main forums page.

Metta practice for self and others can be helpful when one feels confused about negativity in one's life and there are some instructions there.

http://www.buddhismwithoutboundaries...356-Meditation

"Liberating Emotions" by Ajahn Sumedho might also be helpful to read...

We can reflect on the way it is—on this tropical kind of weather, for example. In the attitude of acceptance we can allow ourselves to be receptive to life rather than try to control it, run away from, or resist it. This receptivity contrasts resistance. Culturally, we tend to be conditioned into resisting things. There is a fear of being open and receptive, as if by doing so we shall allow something to take us over. We feel we have to develop some kind of protection in order to keep ourselves from being annihilated or taken advantage of; it is a kind of paranoia of the mind. We may also have the attitude of needing to resist evil, of having to kill the devil and destroy the evil forces.

The Buddhist attitude is one of loving-kindness (metta), of open acceptance of everything as it is. If we take loving-kindness to its ultimate, all conditioned phenomena are accepted for what they are. That doesn’t mean all things are approved of; they are simply accepted. Everything has to be the way it is in the moment. You can’t say, ‘I don’t want the weather to be like this,’ or, ‘I don’t want things to be this way.’ If you do, you are not accepting the way it is and are creating suffering around something that you don’t like or don’t want.

Continued:

http://buddhismnow.wordpress.com/201...ajahn-sumedho/
with kind wishes

Aloka

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08-10-2012, 02:18 AM	#2
antiggill Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 425 Senior Member	Hi Kered, You might like to explore the resources in the 'Meditation' thread in our Study Links section at the bottom of the main forums page. Metta practice for self and others can be helpful when one feels confused about negativity in one's life and there are some instructions there. http://www.buddhismwithoutboundaries...356-Meditation "Liberating Emotions" by Ajahn Sumedho might also be helpful to read... We can reflect on the way it is—on this tropical kind of weather, for example. In the attitude of acceptance we can allow ourselves to be receptive to life rather than try to control it, run away from, or resist it. This receptivity contrasts resistance. Culturally, we tend to be conditioned into resisting things. There is a fear of being open and receptive, as if by doing so we shall allow something to take us over. We feel we have to develop some kind of protection in order to keep ourselves from being annihilated or taken advantage of; it is a kind of paranoia of the mind. We may also have the attitude of needing to resist evil, of having to kill the devil and destroy the evil forces. The Buddhist attitude is one of loving-kindness (metta), of open acceptance of everything as it is. If we take loving-kindness to its ultimate, all conditioned phenomena are accepted for what they are. That doesn’t mean all things are approved of; they are simply accepted. Everything has to be the way it is in the moment. You can’t say, ‘I don’t want the weather to be like this,’ or, ‘I don’t want things to be this way.’ If you do, you are not accepting the way it is and are creating suffering around something that you don’t like or don’t want. Continued: http://buddhismnow.wordpress.com/201...ajahn-sumedho/ with kind wishes Aloka .
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