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it doesn't matter what you feel
This page is from my personal notes, and has not been specifically reviewed for public consumption. It might be incomplete, wrong, outdated, or stupid. Caveat lector.ApparentlyNameRedacted told this story in a talk. Sharon Salzberg says that if she could put one thing on her tombstone it would be this: "it doesn't matter what you feel". The point is that meditation (specifically metta) is a process that will produce eventual reward whether or not it changes the valence of the current moment. Just because repeating 'may you be loved' doesn't immediately produce a felt sense of love doesn't mean it's not working.