Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more awareโ not only of our own inner workings but also of whatโs happening around us in the here & now.
At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.
What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.
I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.
It's interesting that people bring different things to oppressive and difficult situations, when they're reduced to the barest terms of survival. That's what provides tension in a lot of films.