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title: "The Sweetness of Lovingkindness"
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date: 2025-11-08
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# The Sweetness of Lovingkindness

This talk from the San Rafael Meditation focuses on lovingkindness through personal effort, deliberate practice, There is a sweetness in the emphasis on the power of love.[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]This [Wednesday Night Meditation]() included a 34-minute meditation and a 47-minute talk from Rick’s series on Wise Effort, focusing on The Essence of Practice: Loving, Knowing, and Growing.

Life happens to us, and we happen in life, in nature, in reality. Then what?We can either be swept along, in ignorance, fueled and poisoned by hatred, greed, and heartache.Or we can practice:

> In our relationship to and how we respond to

> what is happening to us

> our experiences of that, and

> the nature of reality itself

Practice is like a three-legged stool, with three key elements. In Pali: **Metta. Sati. Bhavana.** — loosely translated into English: **Loving. Knowing. Growing**.

This talk and meditation featured several quotations which can be found under the video players below.

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