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Head & Heart Together
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… 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 Thanissaro Bhikkhu are available to download in digital audio and various ebook formats at dhammatalks.org. Printed copy A paperback copy of this book is available free of charge. To request one, write to: Book Request …
Head & Heart Together
Acknowledgements
… Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) Metta Forest Monastery Valley Center, CA 92082-1409 December, 2010
Head & Heart Together
Head & Heart Together
… Of these four emotions, goodwill (mettā) is the most fundamental. It’s the wish for true happiness, a wish you can direct to yourself or to others. Goodwill was the underlying motivation that led the Buddha to search for awakening and to teach the path to awakening to others after he had found it. The next two emotions in the list are essentially applications …
Head & Heart Together
The Buddha via the Bible
… As the first line of the Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta (Khp 9) states, This is to be done by one skilled in aims who wants to break through to the state of peace: In other words, if you want to break through to a state of peace, then this is what you have to do. And although generosity is one of the things one must …- End of results



