May you be free of suffering (Meditation)
A metta-meditation practice for a world that desperately needs it.
I have not been able to put into words how I feel about everything happening in the world today.
What’s currently, and has been, happening overseas is so devastatingly terrible.
Every time I see a video of a child shaking from fear, bursting into tears the moment someone shows them an ounce of compassion, my heart just breaks.
I purposely don’t watch the news.
I don’t engage with news as it pops up on my social channels.
It’s how I protect my peace so that I’m able to stay present and how I can hold space for others.
However, there are occasions when these videos or stories slip through the cracks and it fills me with a sadness I don’t know how to convey through words.
The comment section is filled with sad people extending their sympathy, with scattered comments from those who wish to remind others that this has been going on in other parts of the world for so long, and for someone else to pin the blame on.
The divisiveness is always so loud, but I sometimes think we forget that on either side there are people - elders, women, children, and families - who are victims of someone else’s war.
The heinous acts of genocide are unfathomable.
People who did not ask for this are being brutally tortured and murdered.
And with all of this happening, how can we not view them as anything other than human beings - our own brothers and sisters?
And perhaps we forget that these groups who so willfully inflict this on THEIR own brothers and sisters, THEY, are human beings, too.
WE are all human beings. WE all came from one Source.
Think about each other’s humanness before writing that victim-blaming comment.
Think about our connectedness before calling someone out for supporting X-country and not X-country.
We cannot change the damage that has been done, but we can continue to pray that all involved may find peace.
If you cannot help aid the victims, then I ask you to extend a metta meditation to those suffering and those fighting.