I have been practicing tantric metta awakening (TMA) for decades with almost no awareness of why or what I was actually doing. Recently, suddenly, and due to a series of back-to-back-to-back horrific events it became crystal clear that TMA is the practice of ‘stretching’ oneself by weaving a loving kindness throughout your sphere of influence. The awakening occurs when you discover that through sacrificial benevolence your life will have more focus, a higher purpose, and deeper meaning. TMA is not an instructional manual to improve your sex life but it can; however, that is merely Miss Serendipity rocking your world because, you know, good karma dude.
Live in ‘the now’ as much as possible and practice TMA constantly. In so doing you will find happiness right where you are or get your money back Full Stop.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
A reminder of how to become truly awakened: heart open, present always.
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Yes any pleasure you expect to get out of anything—get it NOW!
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Another classic, this time from the widow Skye: “Be happy together now forever.”
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“You’re here today—no future fears. This day will last a thousand years—if YOU want it to..”
—The Moody Blues
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Spot on as per usual her Grace. As Mrs. BKK often admonished me, “Live in the now.”
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“Shades of the prison house begin to close/Upon the growing boy.” I don’t know what poem that’s from, but I think delayed gratification is the shade of prison.
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“…but I think delayed gratification is the shade of prison.”
The shade of prison concept is situational dependent perhaps? For example, money wisely invested today is some mighty nice delayed gratification tomorrow.
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Yes but all I’m saying is, the act of investing, and the state of being invested, should also give you pleasure at the time. Because there may be no future.
“He weaves, and is clothed in derision,/Sows, but he shall not reap—/His life is a watch or a vision/Between a sleep and a sleep”.
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Solid that, ma’am.
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But some things won’t last and need to be gratified right foxtrotting now e.g., ice cream is the first thing that comes to mind. lol
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“His life is a watch…”
Hypatia por favor, what do you think watch means here?
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It’s used like “night watch” or “This happened on my watch.” It means a brief, preordained period of responsibility, of wakefulness. Like “vigil”.
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Got it, 💡thanks.
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As in the “watch cap” I wore in the Marines. Thnx again.
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