I get a little busy on Sunday mornings. But here's some helpful guidance from Sharon Salzberg--from her book, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
Cultivating the
good means recovering the incandescent power of love that is present as a
potential in all of us. An awakened life demands a fundamental re-visioning of
the limited views we hold of our own potential.
To say that
we cultivate the good means that we align ourselves with an expansive vision of
what is possible for us, and we use the tools of spiritual practice to sustain
our real, moment-to-moment experience of that vision.
This vision
is always available to us; it doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in
a sense of our limitations…. Once we contact our capacity for love and
happiness—the good—the light has been turned on.
Practicing…is
a way of turning on the light and then tending it. It is a process of deep
spiritual transformation.
This transformation comes from actually walking the
path: putting the values and theories into practice, bringing them to life. We
make the effort to abandon the unskillful and cultivate the good with the conviction
that in fact we can be successful.
