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2. Play AudioActive Goodwill
    … So he switched and said, “Metta means ‘I accept you.’” But metta means more than acceptance. It’s an active wish for people’s happiness. After all, that’s what inspired the Buddha to teach. It wasn’t just that he accepted people. If he just accepted people, he would have stayed home, let them do what they want. But he bothered them, bothered … 
3. Contents
   Contents Titlepage Contents Cover Copyright Acknowledgements Beyond All Directions Readings Lost in Quotation An All-around Eye Metta Means Goodwill On Denying Defilement Virtue Without Attachment The Limits of the Unlimited Attitudes The Essence of the Dhamma The Middles of the Middle Way Two Types of Middle The Middles of Moderation Moderation & Concentration Discernment & Moderation The Middles of Appropriate Attention Questions of Becoming Two … 
4. Derechos de autor | La mente como fuego desatado
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6. Derechos de autor | Regalos que dejó a su paso
    … las preguntas concernientes a este libro se pueden dirigir a Metta Forest Monastery Valley Center, CA 92082-1409 U.S.A. recursos adicionales: Se pueden encontrar más recursos de Dhamma en varios formatos, y algunos en español, en dhammatalks.org.
7. Play AudioMetta for Yourself
   It’s important that you not regard meditation as a chore. It’s an opportunity. You’ve got some time to be by yourself to look at your own mind, straighten things out a little bit inside. If you don’t straighten them out, how are they going to get straightened out? No one else can come into your mind and do the work … 
8. Play AudioMetta
    … The attitude of goodwill is called metta-cittena. The word citta in cittena can mean either heart or mind—it actually means both. The Buddha’s teachings don’t make a clear division between your thoughts and your emotions. You’re trying to develop both, which means you want your thoughts to be motivated by goodwill and you want your goodwill to have some … 
9. Play AudioA Friend to the World
   The Pali word metta is related to the word mitta, which means friend. Metta is the quality of a good friend, which is what you’re trying to develop as you develop thoughts of goodwill. Now, there are all kinds of friends. There are true friends and false friends. There’s skillful friendship and unskillful friendship. And it’s obvious, of course, that the … 
10. Infinity
     … So goodwill or metta doesn’t mean that you’re going to love other people. Sometimes it means simply respecting their desire for happiness and hoping that they can look after their own happiness: “May they all look after themselves with ease.” And although metta is meant to be a limitless attitude, the Buddha does talk about it as restraint. He talks about it … 
11. Contents
     … Grief for the Loss of a Loved One Grief Management The Cure Appendix Refuge The Sublime Attitudes Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta : The Discourse on Goodwill Contemplation of the Body Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection The Four Dhamma Summaries Pabbatopama Gāthā : The Mountain Simile Ariyadhana Gāthā : Noble Wealth Bhadd’eka-ratta Gāthā : An Auspicious Day Dhamma-niyāma Sutta : The Orderliness of the Dhamma The Stilling of … 
12. Play AudioGoodwill in Heart & Mind
     … So to make metta a quality of the heart and the mind, you have to do more than simply metta practice. You’ve got to work on the problems inside—the way in which you’re creating unnecessary suffering for yourself—getting past any of the obstacles in the mind that refuse to admit that, refuse to see that. Because as long as you … 
13. Play AudioMetta Is Restraint
    Close your eyes. Take a couple of good, long, deep, in-and-out breaths. Notice where you feel the breathing in the body. It could be anywhere at all. Don’t let your preconceived notions get in the way of sensing where the breath actually feels like it’s coming in, where it feels like it’s going out—where it feels like it … 
14. Talk collections | dhammatalks.org
     … Guided Metta Meditation 11 Chant: The Sublime Attitudes 12 Chant: The Metta Sutta 13 Meditation: Guided Breath Meditation 14 Dhamma Talk: Preparing to Die Well 15 Sutta Reading: The Sick Ward (Samyutta Nikaya 36.7) 16 Reading: Ajaan Lee 17 Chant: Verses on the Noble Truths 18 Dhamma Talk: Don't Worry, Be Focused 19 Sutta Reading: Anathapindaka (Majjhima Nikaya 143) 20 Meditation: Guided … 
15. Contents
     … No Technique A Divine Seat The Flamethrowing Mind The Radiant Mind The Dhamma Is in the Method Think To Be Debt Free Honest & Observant Wise About Mistakes Non-Reactive Judgment A Tradition of Ingenuity The Need for Agency A Good Independent Self Attahi Attano Natho Swept Downstream Surveying the World The World of Conviction Infinity Metta Math Tough Goodwill for a Tough World Bringing … 
16. Contents
     … Hard to Settle Down Building Character The Gift of Spiritual Materialism Patience & Tenacity The Heart to Keep Going Success Through Maturity Look after Your Mind with Ease In Harmlessness Is Strength Metta Through Samvega Right Resolve in Real Life The Noble Truths Come First The Power of Truth To Suffer Is an Active Verb Rooted in Desire The Core of Experience Self View & Conceit … 
17. Play AudioMetta as Restraint
    We start the day with thoughts of goodwill, wishing for the happiness of ourselves and all beings. The Buddha calls this an unlimited attitude. But he also calls it a form of restraint. In other words, you keep careful watch over how you’re going to look for your happiness. You want to make sure it doesn’t harm anybody else, and you want … 
18. Play AudioDefilements as Not-self
     … I talked one time to a person who was working in a meditation center where they held both vipassanā and mettā retreats. I asked him if he noticed any difference between the two types of retreats. He mentioned two things: One was that in the mettā retreats the people would leave nice notes to one another on the note board, things like: “I saw … 
19. Play AudioCompassion Without Clinging
     … Often, the word metta is translated as love, or loving kindness. But they have another word in Pali for love, pema. Metta means goodwill, a general wish for happiness. When you think about where happiness comes from, it comes from within. It comes from each person’s actions. So a parent’s duty to a child is to teach the child how to find … 
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     … Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu Metta Forest Monastery Valley Center, CA  92082–1409 USA April, 2017
21. Play AudioMetta
    Close your eyes and focus on your breath. Know when it’s coming in; know when it’s going out. Notice where you feel it most clearly in the body. Focus your attention there and then ask yourself if it’s comfortable. If it’s not, you can change. Make it longer, shorter, faster, slower, deeper, more shallow, heavier, lighter. See what feels good … 
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