Many of you have asked for the Metta Practice/Chant material that Ruth Denison presented during her visit to our Sangha on Sunday.  This version contains the text without the chant notation provided in her original.  We’ll update this link when the full version with her notation becomes available.
Metta Chant and Practice

Ruth Denison was the first Buddhist teacher in the United States to lead an all-women’s retreat for Buddhist meditation and instruction. Her center, Dhamma Dena Desert Vipassana Center is located in the Mojave Desert, in Joshua Tree, California. She was also a teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and sometimes teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California.  She is one of four Westerners who have received permission to teach from Burmese master U Ba Khin.

Her unique style of Vipassana meditation has influenced most of the contemporary Theravada teachers in the West, with its strong emphasis on bodily sensations and movement (the Buddha’s teaching on the First Foundation of Mindfulness). 

In addition, Ruth has been in the forefront of supporting the reinvigoration of Theravada women’s monasticism and Dhamma Dena has served as a monastic residence for numerous Buddhist nuns (bhikkhunis) for many years.

“Most of all, I encourage people to go into their difficulties and to cope with the change that’s taking place even as they are paying attention to it. Our life is nothing but change and it is to this change that I bow deeply. I bow to this change, I bow deeply to life itself. “
From an IMS interview with Ruth Denison Bowing to Life Deeply

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