Metta Thread

[Onkai]

Metta to your wife's family, Mateus, and to everyone involved.

Gassho,
Onkai

[Jundo]

Metta to all, Mateus. May there be peace.

Gassho, J

stlah

[Washin]

I would like to ask metta for my wife’s family and others involved in the incidents that happened.
My father-in-law was involved in a car accident and sent to the hospital. The other party, unfortunately, lost his life in the accident. May he be at peace!
It’s hard to believe but this accident may have ended my in-laws marriage: my father-in-law in law was with a lover almost ten years younger than my wife (his daughter). My mother-in-law was so shocked that had to be hospitalized as well. Now we don’t know what will happens.
So I would like to ask metta for the couple and all the family and involved people.
Gassho,
Mateus
Satlah

Mateus, sending Metta to the family and all involved in this sad accident.

Gassho
Washin
stlah

[Shinchi]

Metta to your wife's family, Mateus, and all involved.

Gassho,
Shinchi
STlah

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[Tairin]

Metta for Mateus’s family and for all involved in fatal or harmful accidents


Tairin
Sat today and lah

[Naiko]

Mateus, metta to you and your wife, and all involved in this accident.
Gassho,
Naiko
St

[Onki]

Metta to my wife’s 18 month old patient going for her 8th heart surgery on Monday. May her doctor’s help her to heal.

Gasshō,

On

Sat today

[Onkai]

Metta to my wife’s 18 month old patient going for her 8th heart surgery on Monday. May her doctor’s help her to heal.

Gasshō,

On

Sat today

Metta your wife's patient. May she heal and live a healthy long life.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat lah

[Seiko]

Metta for the 59 refugees who died trying to sail to Italy - and the 81 survivors. Metta to all their families, the rescuers and all refugees everywhere.

Gasshō
Seiko
stlah

[Onkai]

Metta to all refugees and to the people who serve them.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat lah

[Jundo]

Metta to the young one, may her youthful heart beat strong.

Metta for these lost refugees, and all refugees everywhere.

Gassho, J

stlah

[Tai Do]

Metta to my wife’s 18 month old patient going for her 8th heart surgery on Monday. May her doctor’s help her to heal.

Gasshō,

On

Sat today

Much metta to your wife's patient, Onki. May she be healthy and free from suffering.
Gassho,
Tai Do,
satlah

[Tai Do]

Metta for the 59 refugees who died trying to sail to Italy - and the 81 survivors. Metta to all their families, the rescuers and all refugees everywhere.

Gasshō
Seiko
stlah

Metta for all refugees, their rescuers and their families. May we live in a world where people can be compassionate and help each other; may we live in a world where people don't can be safe in their native land and their destinations.
Gassho,
Tai Do
Satlah

[Tokan]

Hey all

A slightly different metta post from me today, but it will need to be a bit longer. I spent three nights at work, with overnight call outs meaning I only had eight hours sleep in three days - more grist for the mill of bodhisattva practice though by the third night I didn't feel much like a bodhisattva, more like an incarnation of Mara!!! Nonetheless, some zazen then sitting in the garden with the morning sun and sewing the kesa for an hour helped restore equanimity, along with reciting the metta verses, I just changed one line - not for 'a' difficult person, but for 'all' the difficult people I had met in the previous few days, of which there were many.

I tell you, some may think that crisis mental health work is somehow 'nice' because you are helping others, but we get so much abuse, threats on our lives, even physical assaults once in a while, and (of course) we are challenging people's very notion of themselves at times (which most people don't like), that it honestly pushes me out of the zone of compassion and empathy at times. Like two days ago, I sat with a young woman who had much to be thankful for in life, but it wasn't enough, she was like a hungry ghost - and she had been having an affair to try and fill that hole, yet you could see, even then, it wasn't enough. So she thought she might be better off dead than alive. I struggled to feel sympathy for her, I'll be honest, self-pity is a cruel and offensive animal. I tell you, despite how hard this job can be, and how much it sometimes makes me doubt myself, it is a powerful education in the potential depths of delusion, and the overwhelming cravings that grip people, sending their moral compass spinning and leaving them at the mercy of their desires (no wonder the Four Truths caught on!)

I sewed all of this into my kesa and as I did, I felt an empathetic connection to all those 'other's', for I too am a deluded being, deluded also in seeing them as 'others.' But I am absolutely blessed to have discovered and remained on the Buddha's path - not always straight - but even when I have gone off course I knew the path was there, I just needed to find my way back. I am ever thankful for the insight and wisdom of this path, and the meaning of sewing the Buddha's robe is something I sometimes do not wish to express in words, letting it, instead, flow as the blood in my veins. As I sat there, the words of the metta verses were like stitches in my kesa, and I as continued to recite the metta verses, I just kept going, for each new person or situation that came into my mind. So much sadness and suffering in the world, yet the beauty of the fact that we wish it were not so, and that we practice to realise that, in any way we can, even by healing our own hearts first.

Metta to all beings throughout space and time, may they enjoy peace, love, joy, and serenity

Gassho, Tokan

satlah

[Onkai]

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat lah

[Jundo]

Metta for all the hungry ghosts, living and dead, and those who try to help them.

I would also like to ask for Metta for all Israelis and Palestinians today, as violence escalates, may there (someday, somehow) finally be peace there and might all live together in peace ...

** (And no, please, I do not want to start a debate on right and wrong ... and just wish to agree silently on the need for peace, mutual understanding, tolerance, sharing, human rights. Thank you. )

Gassho, Jundo

stlah

[Onkai]

Metta for all in conflict. May peace prevail.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat lah

[Kiri]

I would like to ask for metta for the victims of the train crash in Greece and their families. People are still missing, including two students from Cyprus. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64813367

Gassho, Kiri
Sat/Lah

[Shinshi]

I would like to ask for metta for the victims of the train crash in Greece and their families. People are still missing, including two students from Cyprus. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64813367

Gassho, Kiri
Sat/Lah

Yes. I will sit Metta today for them when I sit later today. Metta to all suffering from accidents and loss of loved ones.

Gassho, Shinshi

SaT-LaH

[Onkai]

Metta to those who were in the train crash and those who love them.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat lah

[Jundo]

Metta to all touched by this accident, and to all touched by accidents everywhere.

Gassho, J

stlah

[Shokai]

[Seiko]

Metta to all those who loved and were taught by Rev Saido (Order of Buddhist Contemplatives) who passed away recently. Rev Saido was Abbot of Telford Priory, UK. I met him in the 1980's.

Gasshō
Seiko
stlah

[Tokan]

Metta to all those who loved and were taught by Rev Saido (Order of Buddhist Contemplatives) who passed away recently. Rev Saido was Abbot of Telford Priory, UK. I met him in the 1980's.

Gasshō
Seiko
stlah

I do not recall Rev Saido, but I must have met him as I was a member of the OBC Sangha as I lived in Reading where they have a priory, well I'm actually from Reading. I stayed a number of times at Throssel Hole, so no doubt we crossed paths. I am sure he will be missed by many. Metta to those affected by his passing.

Gassho, Tokan

satlah

[Jundo]

To all our remembered and forgotten past Soto priests. Our Zazenkai next week will be dedicated to such a fellow ...

Gassho, J

stlah

[Onkai]

Metta to all those who loved and were taught by Rev Saido (Order of Buddhist Contemplatives) who passed away recently. Rev Saido was Abbot of Telford Priory, UK. I met him in the 1980's.

Gasshō
Seiko
stlah

Metta to Rev Saido's students, friends and family. To his community.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat lah

[Naiko]

I would like to offer metta to the anonymous person who wrote to Jundo yesterday with a question for Shosan. The pain in your words stayed with me. It sounds like you are going through a very difficult time. May you find solace and comfort. May you be at ease in all your ills.

Naiko
st

[Kotei]

I thought about this person today, too.
Metta and may you be at ease.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Seiko]

Metta for all those facing depression or anxiety; and everyone with any kind of health challenges.

Gasshō
Seiko
stlah

[Kokuu]

Much metta for the people of Hamburg this morning, home to our dear friend Kotei, after a mass shooting in a Jehovah's Witness hall left seven people dead and many more injured.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...mburg-shooting

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

[Kotei]

Much metta for the people of Hamburg this morning, home to our dear friend Kotei, after a mass shooting in a Jehovah's Witness hall left seven people dead and many more injured.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...mburg-shooting

Gassho
Kokuu
-sattoday-

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[aprapti]

Metta Kotei..

Aprapti

Sat

[Naiko]

Metta to all in Hamburg, and all those suffering from acts violence and hatred.

st

[Onkai]

Metta to the people affected by the shooting in Hamburg.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat lah

[Washin]

[Risho]

[Tokan]

Gassho, Tokan

sat(for peace) lah

[Jundo]

May there be an end to violence done in hate and anger or in mental delusion.

We will dedicate our Zazenkai today to such, as always.

Gassho, Jundo

stlah

[Tai Do]

Metta to all suffering from violence, disease and disasters.
Gassho,
Tai Do
Satlah

[Onkai]

Metta to all suffering from violence, disease and disasters.
Gassho,
Tai Do
Satlah

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat lah

[Shokai]

[Tairin]

Metta to all suffering from violence, disease and disasters.
Gassho,
Tai Do
Satlah

Tairin
Sat today and lah