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Tibetan Buddhist Lamrim: Remembering the Kindness of All Living Beings
We live in a world full of kindness, but for many, it takes conscious effort to recognize the kindness all around us.
The Great Scope meditations of Lamrim, the majority in the sequence, serve to deepen feelings of compassion and extend those feelings to all living beings.
The first of the meditations provided the groundwork of equanimity. The Buddha instructed that we should view ourselves as devoid of worth, and extend uniformly high respect and affection to others, contrary to our innate tendencies.
The second meditation instructs practitioners to feel the affectionate love they feel for their mother and extend that affection to all living beings.
The first two meditations together demonstrate the end goal of the Great Scope of Lamrim is to feel affectionate love for all living beings equally and without exception. Most of the remaining meditations are designed to meet this end.
