Bob, Sharon, Sergio, all, Thanissaro Bhikkhu taught: "If you think of goodwill as a billowing pink cloud of cotton candy covering the world in all directions, ...
"With people whom we have a lot of resentment or bitterness towards, metta is a way of forgiving and reminding ourselves to let go of it. It's not dismissing...
"The second aspect of true love is karuna, the intention and capacity to relieve and transform suffering and lighten sorrows. Karuna is usually translated as...
Burmese Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi: "You see, we've got to make metta grow. We've got to make people see that love is a strong, positive force ...
"Loving-Kindness Meditation (Metta Bhavana: The Cultivation of Universal Loving-kindness) May all beings be happy and peaceful (free from suffering and...
"Friendliness can be developed gradually in one's meditation period every day, but if it is really effective it must show in one's daily life. It makes life...
"Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like...
"Now, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones, when touched with a feeling of pain, does not sorrow, grieve, or lament, does not beat his breast or...
"When you are compassionate with yourself and others, your world becomes compassionate." ~ Gary Zukav, "Seat of the Soul," as quoted in Science of Mind ...
"Equanimity doesn't mean that you just don't care about what happens. You care. But you also care to learn about cause and effect: What really does work in...
"Just as, monks, this body lives on nourishment, lives dependent on nourishment, does not live without nourishment — in the same way, monks, the five...
In practicing equanimity, I had the idea of noticing that people are protected by physical boundaries. A difficult person is only encountered in particular...
Good thought. This reminds me of something Ven. Chodron mentions periodically, that when we sit on the cusion we quickly find that many of the troubling...
"But the greatest testimony to the Buddha's great compassion is His priceless gift to humanity: the Dhamma which can liberate all beings from suffering. To the...
"We have that chant, "May I be happy, may I be free from stress and pain." We chant that every night before the meditation to remind ourselves of why we're...
"Friends: Unselfish Joy: How to rejoice in others Success: By seeing that: If only happy at one's own success, such Joy is rare & limited! If happy also at...
"Ill will refers to the desire to punish, hurt or destroy. It includes sheer hatred of a person, or even a situation, and it can generate so much energy that...
"Imagine trying to generate even the slightest bodhicitta -- the intention to become fully enlightened in order to benefit all sentient beings most effectively...
"All beings want to be happy and to avoid pain as intensely as we do. Try to look at each individual you see with this thought in mind." Ven. Thubten Chodron,...
Majjhima Nikaya 19 Dvedhavitakka Sutta (extract) Two Sorts of Thinking Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu I have heard that on one occasion the...
"In admirable friendship you ask the other people you admire about the qualities they embody. If you find someone whose conviction is admirable, you ask that...
"The Pali word 'metta' has two root meanings. One is the word for 'gentle.' Metta is likened to a gentle rain that falls upon the earth. The rain does not...
"When there is goodwill, the mind is naturally happy, cheerful, and clear." http://www.buddhanet.net/cmdsg/kamma2.htm From: Good, Evil and Beyond Kamma in the...
" . . .we don't often think especially of spiritual life, sometimes - religious life - as being based on the development of love and compassion and forgiveness...
Ah, this is so true. So much damage done to us in Western Culture, other religious influences and political ones, have a vested interest in controlling how...
"Genuine mudita is, like metta, unconditional. We're not happy because we might benefit from someone else's good fortune. We're just happy because we like...
"Your goodness requires that you think about the goodness of other people." http://www.dhammatalks.org From: Brahmaviharas on the Path by Thanissaro Bhikkhu...
"Feeling guilty and bad about ourselves for something we've done might temporarily restrain us from doing harm, but ultimately blaming and hating ourselves...
The main way I've started to get in touch with metta is to notice evidence of metta I have for myself e.g. how I care so much in looking after my body and...
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