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2. Play AudioThirty-three Years
   Someone reminded me the other day that today is going to be the 33rd anniversary of the founding of Wat Metta. It’s good to reflect on the fact that we have this opportunity to practice here because of the work of a lot of people over many years. Have some gratitude for all that, because without the work of other people, where would … 
3. Guided meditations | dhammatalks.org
   Guided Meditations Guided breath and metta meditations with 5 to 10 minute pauses for experimenting with the instructions. Full set zip  4mMetta 40mBreath 40mBreath (with steps for leaving meditation) 12mBreath (short version) 30mBreath (older version)
4. Facing Aging, Illness, & Death : The Central Teaching of the Buddha Preface
    … Here at Metta, the monks at the monastery helped in preparing the manuscript, as did Addie Onsanit. Any mistakes in the book, of course, are my own responsibility. Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) Metta Forest Monastery May, 2024
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5. Play AudioWhen Ill Will Is in Fashion
   There are two sides to mettā practice, and it’s good to develop both. One is mettā in the context of your relations with other people: how you speak to them, how you act with them, and particularly the thoughts that you have toward them. The Buddha lists goodwill as one of the ten types of skillful action—one of the three skillful mental … 
6. 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 … 
7. 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 … 
8. Derechos de autor | La mente como fuego desatado
    … The Abbot, Metta Forest Monastery, PO Box 1409, Valley Center, CA 92082, E.E.U.U. recursos adicionales Se pueden encontrar más recursos de Dhamma en varios formatos, y algunos en español, en dhammatalks.org.
9. Gather ’Round the Breath 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. cover Zion National Park (East Side), Utah
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10. 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.
11. 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 … 
12. 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 … 
13. 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 … 
14. 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 … 
15. 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 … 
16. 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 … 
17. 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 … 
18. 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 … 
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     … 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 … 
20. Play AudioMetta in Stages
    There’s a passage where the Buddha talks about how to get the mind into concentration using the brahmavihāras. It’s the same as you would do with using the four establishings of mindfulness, or four frames of reference. You start out with directed thought and evaluation. In other words, you think about all the people you know that you have goodwill for. You … 
21. 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 … 
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