{"id":3930,"date":"2009-10-07T00:18:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T16:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2009-10-07T02:33:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T18:33:15","slug":"a-metta-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/10\/a-metta-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Metta Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3931\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/1.gif?resize=96%2C96\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong> I&#8217;m helping to run a meditation group. Are there any ways to help create spiritual friendship within the group?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> You can try this&#8230; Get the group to practise metta (loving-kindness) meditation together, to radiate metta to one another and beyond to all beings, and organise a gathering or outing just after that. It helps to bond as they are likelier to be in a mood with more loving-kindness. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It can be as simple as getting them to sit in a circle to practise metta, before asking each to share on how they felt about the practice. A circle of metta!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I&#8217;m helping to run a meditation group. Are there any ways to help create spiritual friendship within the group?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200,33],"class_list":["post-3930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-loving-kindness","tag-meditation","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}