4 empty immeasurables

Evoking kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity, then watching as they dissolve back into emptiness.

  • Begin by evoking the feeling of kindness.
    • Now look for your kind mind until it all dissolves into emptiness.
  • Next evoke the feeling of compassion.
    • Now look for your compassionate mind until it all dissolves into emptiness.
  • Next evoke the feeling of appreciative joy.
    • Now look for your joyful mind until it all dissolves into emptiness.
  • Next evoke the feeling of equanimity.
    • Now look for your equanimous mind until it all dissolves into emptiness.
  • Rest as that.
    • Any time a thought or mood appears, look for the mind of that thought or mood until it all dissolves back into emptiness. Rest as that.

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