Practice actively remembering your true nature so you can feel it more keenly for others.
Having understood the reason why we suffer (step 2) we realise the practice of Loving Kindness is not about placing others above or below us.
The practice of Loving Kindness instead invites us to recognise that we all share the same true nature. In the same way that we all dwell under the same blue sky, no one owns an exclusive right to be happy at another’s expense. And, indeed, no one’s pure, unbroken and whole Self, is better or worse than another person’s, pure, unbroken, and whole Self. My blue sky is your blue sky, is everyone’s blue sky.
In the book, The All Seeing Boy and the Blue Sky of Happiness, the All-Seeing Boy learns this when the Ruby coated Hobo, instructs him to remember his own True Nature, as the blue sky, so that he can feel it more keenly for others.
This is ultimately why, we don’t exclude ourselves from this great spiritual Truth.
So, we begin our practice by first remembering our own true nature: unbroken like the blue sky on a summer day.
Thought for the day: The degree to which you remember your own True Nature, is equal to your ability to recognise It in others.
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