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  2. Customs of the Noble Ones
     … We tend to be a little spoiled here at Wat Metta, but there’s no guarantee that things will always be good. And even with all the food that comes here, sometimes you want something sour and there’s nothing sour at all for the day. You want something sweet, there’s nothing sweet. I’ve had times in the past when I was … 
  3. Horror Stories
     … Learn this habit in all of your activities because it’s going to be the habit that makes all the difference in your meditation—so that we won’t hear horror stories about the monks from Wat Metta who don’t observe things and don’t figure things out. This habit of being observant, of noticing things, is one of the most important gifts … 
  4. Guardian Meditations
     … If it doesn’t, you can go to metta, goodwill, both for yourself and for people around you. This is ordinarily regarded as an antidote to anger, but it’s an antidote to other things as well, like carelessness and apathy. Remind yourself that you really do want to find true happiness. Do you have any trouble wishing yourself true happiness? You might want … 
  5. Undomesticated Happiness
     … It’s like that common misinterpretation in the English translation of the Karaniya Metta Sutta about the mother looking after her child. Some people translate it to mean that just as she would cherish and love her only child, you should cherish and love all other beings. But that’s impossible. There are a lot of beings out there who are very unlovable, but … 
  6. Shoulds & Ideals
     … One time I was at a Buddhist study center where they were giving a course on the Karaniya Metta Sutta. I’d given a course the weekend before and was staying on to meditate and read in the library. I learned that at this particular course, they were going through the sutta line by line, first in Pali, and then through different translations of … 
  7. People Suffer from Their Thinking
     … Of course the more stringent side of metta is that if you really do wish yourself happiness, what are you doing? Why are you living this way? Why do you do these things? Why do you say these things? Why do you think these things? If you were really serious about your happiness, you’d change the way you live. In this way, thoughts … 
  8. Feeding on Right Resolve
     … In the Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta, the Buddha talks about all that goes into living a life that makes it possible for your goodwill to be honest and sincere. It requires being restrained. In fact, the Buddha calls goodwill a type of restraint. You don’t usually think of it that way. As an unlimited attitude, how is it restrained? It’s restrained in that … 
  9. Forest Bathing
     … Ajaan Suwat was once sitting in the sala at Wat Metta*. *He pointed to Mount Palomar, which is across the large valley there, and asked some of the lay people, “Is that mountain heavy?” Now, you know when an ajaan asks a question like that, it’s a trick question. Nobody dared to answer. So he provided the answer himself. He said, “If you … 
  10. Dedicating Goodness, Spreading Goodwill
     … Is your way of life really in line with that intention? That chant we had just now, the Karaniya Metta Sutta: Go back and look at the first several passages. It doesn’t start out immediately with just saying goodwill for everybody. It talks about how you live: You want to be someone who takes criticism easily, someone who’s not so busy with … 
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