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1. Desires for the End of Desire Determined on the Sublime Attitudes
    … As for compassion and empathetic joy, as we said earlier, these are applications of mettā. Compassion is what mettā feels when you see somebody suffering. You want them to end their suffering. Empathetic joy is what mettā feels when you see people are happy. You want that happiness to continue. The Buddha gives the example of seeing extremely rich and extremely poor people. These … 
2. Desires for the End of Desire Glossary
    … unlimited goodwill (mettā), unlimited compassion (karuṇā), unlimited empathetic joy (muditā), and unlimited equanimity (upekkhā). Citta: Mind; heart. Deva (devatā): Literally, “shining one.” A being on the subtle levels of sensuality, form, or formlessness, living either in terrestrial or heavenly realms. Dhamma: (1) Event, action; (2) a phenomenon in and of itself; (3) mental quality; (4) doctrine, teaching; (5) nibbāna (although there are passages describing … 
3. Desires for the End of Desire Copyright
    … Questions about this book may be addressed to Metta Forest Monastery Valley Center, CA 92082-1409 U.S.A. Additional Resources More Dhamma talks, books and translations by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu are available to download in digital audio and various ebook formats at dhammatalks.org.
4. Desires for the End of Desire Q & A
    … When doing mettā meditation, some teachers have you imagine that you’re looking at a puppy or kittens or a baby, so that you could generate feelings of care, love, and protection. Would you have other advice or tips about this? When we start the meditation at this retreat, the mettā at the beginning of the session is so quick that I feel that … 
5. Desires for the End of Desire Preface
    … Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) Metta Forest Monastery November, 2025
6. Desires for the End of Desire Q & A
    … When we’re working with these mettā wishes, are they a process of self-conditioning, or are they real vows? In the second hypothesis, I suppose that to be efficient, they have to be sincere. How to be sincere with regard to beings we don’t know? And even worse, how to be sincere when we don’t even know that such beings exist … 
7. Desires for the End of Desire Remembering Ajaan Lee
    … He tells about times when he would spread mettā, and it sounds like he’s going into battle. There was one time when he was alone in a forest when there was an elephant in rut. They call it “in rut” because when male elephants get sexually excited, a liquid called “rut” comes out of a gland near their ears. They’re pretty crazed … 
8. Desires for the End of Desire Q & A
    … I have read that mettā or contemplation of death could be used as a basis for jhāna. How does that work? For instance, how is pīti caused by contemplation of corpses? A: Sometimes, as you contemplate death, the fact that this body is going to die becomes very, very prominent, and your sense of attachment to the body, especially attachment to the appearance of … 
9. Desires for the End of Desire Q & A
    … First teach thoughts of mettā. Every evening before the child goes to bed, have him spread thoughts of goodwill to himself, parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, the dog and the cat, and his friends. When the child is about seven, then you can teach him breath meditation. Basically have him follow the feelings of breath wherever he feels them in the body. If he … 
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