put the flower into your heart...

Flowers help me with loving kindness meditation. I visualize putting the flower into my heart and into other people's hearts. I feel the openness of the flower, its beauty and the warmth of the sun that infuses it. I feel the interconnectedness of hearts and beings.

I thank my martial arts teacher for giving me this meditation.

Jack Kornfield quotes Albert Camus, “We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves.”