‘They were the same people, but I felt like they were kinder and warmer, and I began to communicate with them — they looked very nice (Mingyur Rinpoche laughs). So, changing is possible. This practice is really powerfulThey were the same people, but I felt like they were kinder and warmer, and I began to communicate with them — they looked very nice (Mingyur Rinpoche laughs). So, changing is possible. This practice is really powerfulIn this teaching, Mingyur Rinpoche teaches that: The next step in the practice of love is to expand it to include neutral people. Practicing love for a neutral person involves recognizing their wish to be happy. People tend to focus on the negative, as is illustrated through Mingyur Rinpoche’s story about his home country of Nepal. Through meditating on love for neutral people, there can be demonstrable shifts in how people relate to you.Tip Focusing on the good qualities of others will have an impact on how you experience them. When I practice loving kindness for a neutral person I feel warm open and loving inside. I agree that with Minh yaar whimper Shay that practicing love for others it is reduces egoistic mine because I feel warmth and love and concern inside of me coming out and that warmth inside of me is a is goodness is basic goodness it’s feels like goodness it feels good like loving When you cultivate the intention to recognize others’ wish to be happy, does your experience change? What is it like to go to the supermarket, bank, or beach with the mindset of wishing others to be happy? What strategies help you cultivate this wish for people you do not know? Do you find it more or less difficult than meditating with loved ones and/or yourself? Please explain. I haven’t really thought about that I concepted when I’m in a place like grocery store like all I in for around me that they want to be happy just like me anywhere that’s still is kind of a foreign concept of me but I can but I can I see and I can visualize how do you know I could do this and I understand what it saying. And it is true. So I just need to take take time with it and I recognize this in a in practice. To notice it and practice it and when I wish for someone to be happy and to be free from suffering to wish them happiness I feel something flow out of me this inner warmth and goodness that just Warms my heart. It’s like it goes both ways in that inner warmth just makes me feel like a better person more loving a loving person. When I meditate on love for a neutral person wishing them to be happy and I think about that I feel kinder and gentler and more loving and open. My experience changes because my internal self changes. I have experienced them becoming more friendly and open towards me. It’s like it’s a back-and-forth that occurs . It’s pretty cool. :-) The strategies that help me cultivate this is opening my mind just opening and breathing calming quieting and focusing gently on wishing that person happiness and thinking kindly . May also use the words think the words May you have happiness and the causes of happiness. And thinking kindly of them. Still not sure how effective emotions can be expression of love or have love behind them. Will keep an open mind for more info on that or ask a question. When you cultivate the intention to recognize others’ wish to be happy, does your experience change? What is it like to go to the supermarket, bank, or beach with the mindset of wishing others to be happy? What strategies help you cultivate this wish for people you do not know? Do you find it more or less difficult than meditating with loved ones and/or yourself? Please explain. I found my experience with other people changed. I went to church this morning and I didn’t feel any other fear or negativities or judgment that I usually feel towards other people judging them or judging myself in a negative way. It was like an instantaneous positive connection there was no fear. I had never experienced this before I felt it with people I had never connected with previously. I was not expecting that. I was surprise in how I interacted with them and how the positive response from them. They were very nice. Like M R said about the people in the train station the next morning. They had become very nice. 😊☺️ ‘Neutral’ beings experience all kinds of suffering over which they have no control and from which they cannot protect or free themselves. Mingyur Rinpoche