The Four Viharas is a powerful 2,500 year-old meditation designed to help bring us home to our true nature. This home has four aspects: Love, Compassion, Joy, and Peace.
This ancient practice originates in the Buddhist tradition, but it is universal, and is a wonderful meditation for beginning practitioners of any religion or persuasion. It is also excellent for more advanced and experienced meditators as well.
Not only does the Four Viharas help our mind become more quiet, relaxed, poised, and centered in the truth of our being, it also helps purify negative emotions and brings emotional healing, which can lead to other types of healing, including physical healing.
On this CD, Will Tuttle has composed words and music to guide you along the path of this ancient practice. There are two tracks, each one being about 22 minutes in length. The first track has detailed guidance and effortlessly carries you along in the practice of the Four Viharas until you learn how to do it yourself. The solo piano background music is calming and relaxing, and helps deepen the experience.
The second track has just a short guided section with words at the very beginning, and then is about 20 minutes of meditative music that you can use as background for the meditation as you have learned it from listening to track one.
"Vihara" is an old Sanskrit word meaning abode, dwelling, temple, sanctuary, home. This timeless and potent meditation helps us connect with the truth of our being-love, compassion, joy, and peace-and offers a path that has been tried and proven for over two thousand years to bring harmony into our feelings and into our daily lives.
Part of its beauty is that it can be done anywhere at any time. Practicing the Four Viharas regularly will gradually and deeply transform your internal environment, healing and opening your heart to yourself, to others, to all of life.
