…’t need to worry. It is not limited to yourself, because the field of loving-kindness is limitless. If you like, you can think of the loving-kindness practice as described up to this point as merely (but importantly) tuning your instrument before you play it out in the world. In this case, tuning the instrument is itself a huge act of love and kindness and wisdom in and of itself, not merely a means to an end.
…ise to you, and so you are as worthy a receiver of loving-kindness as anything else or anyone else. Your loving-kindness cannot be either loving or kind if it does not include yourself, can it? But at the same time, you don’t need to worry. It is not limited to yourself, because the field of …