Loving Kindness Meditation

As the election gets nearer I have been doing Loving Kindness practice and I thought that if others could join me for the purpose of aspiring that the candidates and the country might become more loving and compassionate, so if you are not familiar with the practice here it is.

May I be well happy and peaceful. May no harm come to me, may no difficulties come to me, may I have a calm and peaceful mind. May I have patience, insight, courage and compassion in meeting the challenges of life.

May my parents be well happy and peaceful. May no harm come to them, may no difficulties come to them, may they have calm, peaceful minds. May they have patience, insight, courage and compassion in meeting the challenges of life.

May my teachers be well happy and peaceful. May no harm come to them, may no difficulties come to them, may they have calm, peaceful minds. May they have patience, insight, courage and compassion in meeting the challenges of life.

May family members and relatives be well happy and peaceful. May no harm come to them, may no difficulties come to them, may they have calm, peaceful minds. May they have patience, insight, courage and compassion in meeting the challenges of life.

May friends and acquaintances be well happy and peaceful. May no harm come to them, may no difficulties come to them, may they have calm, peaceful minds. May they have patience, insight, courage and compassion in meeting the challenges of life.

May unfriendly people and my enemies be well happy and peaceful. May no harm come to them, may no difficulties come to them, may they have calm, peaceful minds. May they have patience, insight, courage and compassion in meeting the challenges of life.

May unknown persons be well happy and peaceful. May no harm come to them, may no difficulties come to them, may they have calm, peaceful minds. May they have patience, insight, courage and compassion in meeting the challenges of life.

May all beings, with form and without form, visible, invisible, born or coming to birth, large and small, from the highest realm of existence to the lowest, be well happy and peaceful. May no harm come to them, may no difficulties come to them, may they have calm, peaceful minds. May they have patience, insight, courage and compassion in meeting the challenges of life.

Chinese Caligraphy for Compassion