RJ 🇺🇸

禁煙しました。タバコ吸ってる奴ダサい。臭いから近寄らないでほしい

This is an insane looking street takeover on Lower Wacker.

The Taoists have a practice called Inner Smile meditation. The practice works roughly like this: - You generate a slight physical smile on your face - You connect to the emotional tone of smiling - You radiate that emotional towards each part of your body in turn with an attitude of gentle receptivity. Recently, I’ve been using this as my default way of practicing metta. I start by doing it for myself, then starting to radiate my inner smile energy out to other people and then to my environment and all phenomena that arise in my mindstream. The etymology of “metta” relates most closely to the word “friendliness” in English. To me, the spirit of friendliness is captured much more purely by the emotional tone of a smile than it is by any set of shock phrases. I also find that radiating smiling energy throughout the day is more readily picked up on by others as a friendly energy that brightens their day. It’s also something very easy to conjure up as a physical smile is always available to us to get the process going.