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I feel that using the mother as a model in meditation fascinating because one can

Personalize their own experience by visualizing his/her own mother and in effect,

associate inner emotion & raw compassion for the one who created and protected them.

I also thought that the realization of immense inapplicable rebirths, that everyone has

been everyone's mother in a sense, is a powerful tool towards introducing compassion for

all beings. Just understanding the respectful nature of this compassion in general is a

basic fundamental towards what the second Dally Lama, Gendun Gyatso calls ‘giving

and taking'.

It (‘giving and taking') has many phases, and taking responsibility, and

feeling empathy, towards all things is essential throughout. First one pictures his/her own

mother personalized in his/her own frame of reference and associates the compassion of

his/her mother towards other people close, like friends, family and pets by ‘giving and......

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