Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein Ep. 87 - Metta and Fear
May 11, 2020
A guided look at opening the heart through Metta and how loving-kindness differs from attachment. Practical methods for sending goodwill to neutral and difficult people are presented. The talk explores how fear shows up in practice, from physical pain to imagined future threats, and offers ways to recognize, accept, and investigate those fears.
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Gathering Attention Reveals The Heart
- Mindfulness gathers scattered attention and creates inner spaciousness where the heart relaxes.
- In that openness we can see ourselves more clearly and feel parts previously hidden.
Remorse Purified By Mindful Attention
- Joseph Goldstein recalls killing a chicken in Peace Corps training and later feeling deep remorse during intensive practice.
- Attending to that remorse with mindfulness purified the emotional charge and cleared the memory.
Metta Is Generous, Not Transactional
- Loving kindness (metta) arises from the depth of heart when surface reactivity falls away.
- Metta is generosity without expectation or self-benefit.