High-tech metta
High-tech metta
No, this isn’t about AI or those trippy glasses people can wear to give them 7-D vision.
This is about the incredible power of connecting to one another through metta, through kindness, friendliness, even (on a good day) unconditional love.
Whether it’s making sure we eat properly, or listen to a friend, or say thank you to those familiar people in our life (dustmen, people at the till, bus drivers), or even give those people we might find difficult the benefit of the doubt. All this and more are examples of how the superpower of metta reaches invisibly, unendingly, surprisingly, connecting us to ourself and others around us right now, in our imagination, in our past.
Metta can ride on technology like wi-fi, Skype and Zoom but is more far reaching, more all-pervasive than those platforms (sorry, Mr Musk, you can’t own this technology). Neuroscientists might explain aspects of it, philosophers and religious scholars may detail and define some forms of it. But it really comes down to the simple but powerful ability we each have within us to step beyond our own me-centred universe and connect with friendship, compassion, empathy and even-heartedness to other beings. Tis not the why that matter here but the what.
So today and over these next days, let’s all put our metta superpowers together to wish our friend, our teacher, our fellow Dharma traveller Bodhilila well on her current journey of challenges of health.
With body
with heart
with mind
With a bow
Maitripushpa
