My sophomore year of high school I was extremely lost, anxious, depressed and ANGRY all the time.. Your videos helped introduce me to Buddhism and helped pull me away from all that negativity. I've come to lose my way again and found myself back here. Thanks for putting out great and informative videos. ❤

This exercise is so powerful. Emotions like envy and jealousy melt away, and prejudices find no way into your mind. Thank you so much for this exercise.

I am SO going to do this! :D I'll start now! May you all be happy and free from suffering

I have just started doing this and the biggest observation that I have made is that there is a lot of sentient life to be encountered out there! One ends up saying these words almost constantly on a walk down a quiet street!

I love this! Didnt know that is what I was doing. Everyday on the bus from work, I would pick seat and whoever sits there, I would wish them happiness and to be free from suffering. =) I love doing this, it keeps me smiling all the way home and it feels great because almost 100% of the time I would have no idea who this person is and what they have done, so therefore I am practicing loving-kindness without discrimination. =)

Perhaps this is the most delightful, effective practices that I share with the nursing staff who care for me. In fact, one sensitive staff person has started to use this practice and regained a confident joyful demeanor and is not a Buddhist. I can't thank you enough for transmitting Buddha's teachings in such a "user friendly" style! Your no-self tranquility joy beams from your enthusiastic reincarnation. Thank you very much and G'Day Mate!

I have been trying o practise this mini loving-kindness on a work-collegue who frustates me to hell. I have nothiced that i have changed how i feel about here and how i have reacted different to here and this also have changed a bit off here reaction to things at the office. Thank you for giving this small, but a big change in life tip. Warm greetings from Belgium :-)

I love this practice. As soon as I started it I felt a softness start around my heart. I am so thankful for your videos. It's has really helped guide me on my journey to Buddhism.

This is very powerful, what goes around comes around. Metta to you and to all beings of this world or other, visible or Invisible, small or mighty.

I have recently become interested in Buddhism and I found your videos. This is my first video that I watched and I am going to practice this in daily life. Thank you so much f or sharing and after about a week of doing this, I will come back to you with the results. Thank you so much.

Thank you for bringing Buddhist teaching into life

I like this idea and Im actually practicing it for few months, I started with homeless people that I see very often and the other people I meet walking with my little toddler...easy practice and very potential, especially if we have this good pure intention....Thank you, blessings and may you be happy and be free from suffering....may all sentient beings be free from suffering and attain Buddhahood :)

Greetings Mindah-Lee, It's a practice for a lifetime. It makes me directly aware of how many people are not happy and are suffering. Several evenings before falling asleep, I've practiced Metta by starting with my parents and relatives (all gone, but still able to benefit on some level) and continued with friends, people who work in the stores where I shop, people I don't even see who keep the lights and power on. Then I wish this for "difficult" people I know or knew, people in the news, and lastly myself. I usually sleep very well. Sending Metta may or may not change others' condition, but it surely is changing mine. Wishing you happiness and freedom from suffering, Ernest, NYC

It's a beautiful exercise and I liked how you emphasized to do it without discrimination. I noticed that my road rage has totally diminished because of this exercise. I'm more aware of my anger and I quickly change my focus. Keep on putting those videos out there!

I wish you know how much I value your information. I’m a 55 year older corporate executive in the US. I’ve watched dozens of other videos and none of them compare to your presentations. Aside front business I’ve raised three daughters. Your teachings have shaped our lives. I wish I had unlimited resources so that I could afford to have you create continued context. I’m not a KZfaq, or even very present on social media. However I have contact with leaders in out community and they share my value of your work. You have a gift. I hope you are meeting you needs for happiness. If I am the only single person experiencing your insight and simple way of explaining things. I would spend every penny I ad to further your efforts. So I may never speak you again. If that happens please know you have changed and saved lives. That was a powerful statement. Thank you for what you be given us. Tim

Mindah-Lee, I work at a high school in SoCal. I am a secretary and have constant contact with students, parents, and other staff. This is a wonderful idea and not an empty practice. I find it works for me to keep me balanced and calm (my office is very stressful), but also giving blessings to everyone I come in touch with daily keeps me giving and receiving the benefits. Thank you so much for your insights.

Winter weather has set in here early and with a vengeance. This also brings out encounters on the road with those who are not as skilled with driving in severe conditions. Wishing happiness and freedom from suffering to the people one encounters who are struggling to make it to their destinations has greatly helped me and made my commute much more pleasant. This is a practice that I intend to continue and expand in the future. Thank you Mindah and may you be Happy and Free from Suffering as well.

First day was fairly easy. Second day was harder to remember. Third day better. For me it has interrupted my reactions at times. I've found when I feel a negative reaction towards someone arising within if I repeat this it helps in stopping the negative reaction. Even if I said the phrase when I first saw the person. It initiates a beneficial pause in the stream of my thinking.

I am a college student from California who is currently studying abroad in Thailand and I came across your channel while studying for my Buddhist Philosophy class. I really enjoy your lessons and will be trying out these prayers.

I feel so calm when i hear you talk its very pleasing and easy to listen to.

This is such a great idea for a practice! I love it! When I was going to university, if I found myself in an empty classroom, I would write on the board "Don't Worry, Be Happy" I figured it might help some people. But this practice is great because it really helps to cultivate compassion.

I have just discovered Your channel. It seems that are the most systematic, professional buddhist lectures on youtube.

I love your setting! It's just so beautiful! Thanks for the great video by the way!

Love that idea. Turning your heart out, rather than inside, is a great step towards inner peace. Thank you for the idea

A magnificent way to promote peace.

I think this loving-kindness exercise works because it replaces anything negative in the mind with something positive. This definitely stops the negative thinking. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.

this is awesome-simple and profound!

She radiates; how amazing!

a very good exercise... simply by looking at...and giving attention to another human or life form changes them and you.. it is really a sacred encounter... and by this simple observation you are changing the world

I am pretty new to buddhism, but ive felt my heart going that way for a long time. I havent had a real life guru yet, so i watch clips from youtube for now. When i find someone, that i feel has given me the answers i was seeking, i keep watching more of there videos, on a daily basis I call them my youtube guru's. Until now, my youtube guru's include Thich Nhat Hanh (i love the way, he brakes it down, and makes it simple, and that you can see true compassion in hes entire face) and Lama Dondrup Dorje (showing me, that even martial arts have the underlying principles of compassion) and now, its you. You are my third youtube guru, and maby my best. I didnt know what to expect at first, because of my own stereotyping way of thinking. IAt first, i saw a woman, and the videos ive seen until now, have all been with male guru's, so i was used to that. Secondly, you spoke with no asian accent, and my mind just went on alarm mode, because i thought: "only real asians living in asia, truelly has any valid knowledge. And third, you where young, and until now, i thought, only old age could bring forth that kind of wisdom. But then you spoke, and i immediately felt comfortable with you. Now i dont fell like i HAVE to becomme asian in mind, in order to understand the teachings (and i was willing to do it too), because you have shown me, i can be myself and european, and still accuire the inner possitive seeds of emotions and thoughts. youve shown me, age and sex has nothing to do with whats inside of wisdom. , The greatest thing is, that you tell it in a way, so we western people, can understand easyer. I just never imagined one of my guru's would be that beautifull. Ive seen your videos on "The Noble Eightfold Path", "The Four Noble Truths" and " The Four Great Efforts". This video, is my first exercise or "training", and i see forward to implementing it. Thank you very much, you are very apreciated.

I'm glad you have narrowed it down. As i can't remember all the loving kindness . I will try this.

Hey! May you be happy, May you be free from suffering !

Beautiful, simple, love it

What a very pleasant idea, Thank you so much. I will be attempting to make this a part of my life style from now on!

To give this generously and bountifully to suffuse each and everyone universally is the middle path.

Thank you! This was extremely helpful. Take care 🙌🏾🌸

I like this!

Thanks for your videos Miss...I read your post about your first pilgrinage to Bodhgaya and I even left you a comment of appreciation there. Buddhism is what world needs today..and Im proud to be a follower of Buddha.

Thank you so much. found this today will definitely try it. sounds so peaceful.

Thank you for these videos! They really help me! 💕

Lovely exercise Thankyou for sharing.

I love your videos, please post more! :)

Wonderful exercise! Blessings to you.

this is helpful for me because lately i have been feeling very envious and jealous of others,so ill try this.thanks

I think this is a great practice, thank you very much for the idea.

Thank you Mindah. May you be happy, may you be free from suffering. :)

Ive started practicing recently and your videos have really helped me so much already.

Hi Mindah-Lee! I am new to Buddhism, and your videos have helped me so much! Thank you for sharing this exercise. I can't wait to begin using it! May you be happy and free from suffering!

Thank you very much may the tripe gem bless you!!!

Hi Mindah,, First I did yoga. During savasana (corpse pose) I would fall asleep. After a few months I would remain alert and became aware of the mind and the body. More practice and I became aware of a third entity....the one who watched. I went to Buddhist centres in Sydney and did meditation classes. I did the ten day Vippassana course. I became a vegetarian. I now meditate daily. I no longer get any pain or pins and needles when practicing.

Thank you for your practical video. If I may add , there is a south Indian spiritual guru called vedatri maharishi whose main teaching is to bless others. " valga valamudan " in the native language Tamil means BE BLESSED , you wish your friend and foe, family or stranger. yes it does have good results. There are many followers in this group too. you can Google search as vedatriyam . Glad to know that his teaching was inspired by Buddhism. Be blessed. Mani Buddha.

Will definitely give a try. I'm new to all of this. Any additional videos you can do on getting started in Buddhism would be appreciated.

Excellent

Welcome back

சகோதரி அற்புதமாக சொன்னீர்கள்... nice

I learn something again.

A most excellent suggestion! I spend a lot of time in the car, so I think I'll do this with every car (the people inside the car, of course) I see on the road from now on. :) Thank you, Mindah.

HI Mindah, hope you are doing well. Still working on my practice. I've gone from very excited to wow this is hard to feeling a little discouraged with my monkey mind. I love the simplicity of "The Art of Living." I've read some of Kornfeld and Goldstein and I think they're a little beyond me at the moment. Happy New Year!

I'm gong to try this for myself also. As I always seem to be suffering by hurtful people

Nice smile...

I use may I meet suffering and ignorance with compassion. It's hard though when you encounter angry people.

Mindah, I cannot tell you how much I truly love your teachings. I live in New York and I am curious if you belong to any particular school of Buddhism that may have a presence in the New York area? Peace and best wishes, Jason

I am a Jew but God also created Buddha and Buddha existed in Eden so I have loving kindness for your faith. Thank you for existing. May you be successful in meditation! Loving kindness for Theravada!

Absolutely quickest, most practical and beautiful exercise EVER:-) Thank you Enthusiastic Buddhist;-) I also strongly recommend 'Buddhism Plain and Simple' by Steve Hagen. Plain and simple...literature about amazing things BTW;-) Keep going EB, u're doing a great job! Thank u soooooo much

Your insights are profound; much like a book that delved deeply into similar matters. "Kindness Unveiled: A Journey to a Happier Life" by Author Name

More: I am not a Buddhist. But I think I may try to find a teacher. I have watched your videos and they are very good. Your accent is very familiar. Any ideas about finding teachers would be most welcome. Thank you

Mindah this is such a profound exercise, thank u for sharing

I'm very nice your vedeo

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Hi! I am new to the channel, and I love that you are so encouraging! I was wondering how to pronounce your name. I don't want to be disrespectful in pronouncing it wrong. Thanks!

Hi i have a question is it ok if i only chant the chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo its in the Lotus Sutra and i do that and meditate is that fine to do ? cause thats what ive been doing with buddhism is that fine ?

Hey Mindah, not sure if this the right place to post this but I'd be interested in seeing a video on the two/three main types of Buddhism and what spoke to you about the style you follow. Thanks

I am fascinated by your site and want to learn more about Buddhism. I look forward to your members site. What I know about Buddhism is from non-praticioners, Theology comparative religion courses, and folks who "say" they are buddhist but...I have doubts. So, basically, starting at zero. I attempted this exercise today. Of course when there is a mass of humanity passing you in the halls at work and over 100+ folks in the lunch room...the process becomes a bit daunting, Does it count in a meaningful way? I also said it twice to the guy in my bathroom mirror and the dude in the rearview mirror this morning. Is that selfish? Does it take away from the experiment? Is it coincidental or part of a meaningful universe that today...uh....sucked. So many things went bad today. I honored commitments at work even though things going wrong meant I had to step in and work twelve hours to fix everything (I'm a network engineer...when we break stuff EVERYONE knows it). trying to work my way through your videos...I am a seething ball of questions...oh, and thank you SO MUCH for doing all of this. -Steve

Hello Mindah-Lee... I am so very thankful that I have come across your site. I truly feel like I am being schooled properly in Buddhism. I do have a question. I have found that I am becoming more and more scattered when it comes to my meditation practice. I have been faithful for the past two years meditating at least once a day for thirty minutes, sometimes twice. But now I've found that I am balking at getting to my cushion. Meditation has transformed my life considerably, and I am baffled at my desire to avoid it all of a sudden. And when I do finally make my way to practice, I've cut it down to fifteen or twenty minutes. Have you ever experienced this? And if so... what did you do to remedy it?

I'm just beginning to delve into Buddhism, because I've become intrigued in the practices and teachings. I have a question regarding selflessness. From what I understand so far, Buddhism teaches that you should strive to achieve a level of selflessness where you're consistently putting others first. What happens if you get burnt out? What happens when your focus becomes solely about ending others' pain and suffering that you forget to practice self care? Should there be a healthy balance of putting others first and also considering your own personal needs or does Buddhism teach you to eradicate your need for self preservation? Thanks!

My problem with it is that I see so many people that I don't have the capacity to stop and recite these words for each and every one individually.

When i meditate i start to have itching really bad on my hands and back is this normal or just weird? Please help i love meditation for calming me down but it gets annoying itching every time :(

I tried that practice and it helped me help me a lot to give love to other people who I do not understand I'm tired

Happy 2017 Mindah!!!

I know that to be Buddhist you have to be vegetarian, I am pesketarian which means I eat fish but not meat, I'm slowly introducing myself to it and I've found it fine, my problem is that I have a serious nut allergy and so if I go vegetarian it will be difficult because of all of the high protein meals that I know of contain nuts. Is it okay if I eat fish or will this damage my wellness in the practise? Thanks for reading this, love the video by the way!

I don't know if this questions was answered somewhere else but can buddhist nuns have normal jobs while doing their religious duties?

Where is she at? What happened to the videos?

HOW TO BE CAME A BUDDHIST

I'm converting to Buddhism from Islam and I'm wondering if there's anything we have to do in our daily lives. In Islam it's praying 5 times a day, and I know we have to meditate, but is there anything else that you do every day? What does a normal day look like in the life of a Buddhist?

Forgot to mention: Your to-do list of videos to produce is probably long enough already. But please consider adding one more on what true happiness is. It would be helpful to know how the Buddha viewed happiness and what he had to say about it too. Or you could just make a brief comment about happiness, rather than having me add stress (suffering) to your work load. Ernest, NYC

Are you Theravada?

I am a Christian (Episcopalian) and while I find Buddhism interesting, I also have difficulty seeing or experiencing love there, as I experience with God. Is there a Buddhist teaching that is like unto the Christian teaching that we are all made in the image and likeness of God, and that is where our highest worth is found?

There are 225 million so called low caste dalits in India and life is hell for them. They cannot even take water from wells. Millions of dalits are becoming Buddhists to escape Hindu caste system.