Watch the Heart, Know the Heart | 30-Minute Loving-Kindness Meditation

What happens when, instead of constantly studying the people and circumstances around us, we become interested in what is happening within? Inspired by Luang Pu Thā’s beautifully simple instruction—“Watch the heart. Know the heart”—this meditation uses loving-kindness to explore our inner response to ourselves, people we love, strangers, difficult people, and ultimately beings in all directions. The practice is not about manufacturing a special feeling. It is about sincerity: seeing what is actually present in the heart and consciously cultivating what we want to carry into the world. The meditation concludes with Ajahn Jayasāro’s account of Luang Pu Thā and his remarkably simple teaching. Cambridge Peace House https://cambridgepeacehouse.org