Hello with love and other meditations

Being mindful is not something difficult to do. The difficulty is in remembering to be mindful because we forget again and again. But once we keep practicing and keep trying to remember, we find more and more that the mindfulness comes back to us, as if on wings, by itself. It then becomes more and more effortless. We just can’t help but being mindful more and more often. In other words we create a new habit — the habit of being mindful; we substitute the old habit of unmindfulness or mindlessness with one of mindfulness or awareness.

Then ours is not just a practice of mindfulness but also of loving-kindness. Every now and then we radiate goodwill towards all beings. May I / you/ she/ they all be happy! Even oneself is not excluded and everybody is included. And just consider what a powerful and wonderful combination this is — mindfulness & loving-kindness. Your life will never be the same again with this twin-pronged approach.

In this booklet, Ven. Visuddhacara shares his understanding of this practice of mindfulness and loving-kindness with a view to encourage all of us to walk the path.