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  1. Book search result icon Meditations 11 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 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 … 
  2. Book search result icon Meditations 11 Introduction
    Introduction The daily schedule at Metta Forest Monastery includes a group interview in the late afternoon and, later in the evening, a chanting session followed by a group meditation period. The Dhamma talks included in this volume were given during the evening meditation sessions, and in many cases covered issues raised at the interviews—either in the questions asked or lurking behind the questions … 
  3. Book search result icon Meditations 11
    Dhamma talks on breath meditation and various aspects of the Buddhist Path given during the evening meditation sessions at Metta Forest Monastery from 2020-2021.
  4. Book search result icon Meditations 11 Glossary
     … piece of cloth that they make into a robe before dawn of the next day. Luang Pu (Thai): Venerable Grandfather. A term of respect for a very senior and elderly monk. Metta: Goodwill; benevolence. See brahma-vihara. Nibbana: Literally, the “unbinding” of the mind from passion, aversion, and delusion, and from the entire round of death and rebirth. As this term also denotes the … 
  5. Goodwill as a Guardian
    Goodwill as a Guardian June 7, 2021 The Buddha teaches three governing principles, three ways of thinking to keep yourself on the path, and two of them have to do with goodwill, or metta. The first one involves your goodwill for yourself. You remind yourself that you entered on this path because you wanted to put an end to your suffering. Basically, you loved … 
  6. Fix Your Views
    Fix Your Views October 27, 2021 There’s a line in the Karaniya Metta Sutta that’s sometimes translated as not holding to fixed views. I’ve been tempted to take that translation and send it in to the people who collect fake Buddhist quotes, because the word fixed doesn’t appear in the passage. There’s no place where the Buddha says fixed … 
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