viewpoint: love over fear in burma

Monks on protest march in Burma


Vishvapani, a member of a Buddhist Order in the West, argues that the monks' protests in Burma show the principle of loving kindness in action, in this think-piece broadcast by BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

I spent last week on retreat, practising a traditional Buddhist meditation called the development of loving kindness.

Its aim is to foster intense friendliness for all beings, starting with oneself, then including a friend or teacher, someone for whom your feelings are neutral, an enemy and then everyone.

Doing this again and again and especially focussing in a kindly way on people to whom you feel hostile, stirs memories, regrets and resentments - and that has a transforming, purifying effect

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