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  2. Book search result icon Dhammapada Preface to the Dhammapada
     … Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) Metta Forest Monastery Valley Center, CA 92082-1409 December, 1997
  3. How to Be an Admirable Friend
    We start the meditation every evening with thoughts of metta, or goodwill. “May I be happy. May all living beings be happy, free from animosity, free from trouble, free from oppression. May each of us look after him or herself with ease.” This quality of metta is very close to mitta, the word for friend. With the words, we’re offering friendship, realizing that … 
  4. Bless Yourself
     … The way the Buddha expresses this, in what might be called his metta phrases, always includes the fact that people are going to be happy not because you wish them happiness, but because they behave in ways that avoid harm. There’s one metta phrase that says, “May no one despise anyone or cause anyone any harm.” And another one that says, “May all … 
  5. Page search result icon Contents
     … Basic Instructions In Shape to Meditate Maintaining Goodwill Metta Meditation Goodwill & Heedfulness Gather ’Round the Breath Allowing the Breath to Spread Brahmaviharas at the Breath Turn Off the Automatic Pilot Choiceful Awareness Artillery All Around Views, Virtue, & Mindfulness Ekaggata Training Your Minds Equanimity A Mirror for the Mind Centered in the Body Mindful Judgment Part II : Common Problems Pain Is Not the Enemy Pleasure … 
  6. Goodwill for the Real World
     … I read a while back someone saying that even the word loving-kindness is too weak a translation for metta, that the Buddha would want to have you have love, love, love for everybody because, of course, everybody loves love. Well, the Buddha didn’t teach anything just because people liked to hear it. The attitude he taught is goodwill: “May these people be … 
  7. Goodwill as a Strength
     … The popular idea of goodwill, metta, tends to be something softer, but here Ajaan Lee was talking about it as a strength, a fighting strength. And it’s important that we keep that in mind. We live in troubled times, with a lot of injustice going on around us, a lot of danger, a lot of really misguided people. And we have to remember … 
  8. With Goodwill for the Entire World
     … It’s a phrase from the Metta Sutta. It sounds nice, but it’s not easy. Look at the way the world has been behaving. Pretty venial. And yet still we have to have goodwill for everybody. It’s not necessarily because they deserve it, but we need it. Regardless of what other people do, our actions are what will determine our future and … 
  9. Gratitude
     … So the fact that we have this opportunity here at Wat Metta depends a lot on the fact that Rama IX was able to keep the country together. He understood that if the country was going to be strong, prosperity had to be spread around. It was under his influence that the whole country got electricity. He himself would go out to areas where … 
  10. Developing the Heart
     … We usually translate citta as “mind,” which gives one sense of what the word means, but it’s only one sense, because the word citta can also mean “heart.” When we talk about a citta of metta—metta-cittena—it’s not just thinking thoughts of goodwill, it’s feeling thoughts of goodwill and willing thoughts of goodwill. So what we’re training here … 
  11. Chanting on Your Own
     … The Mangala Sutta is basically general auspiciousness; with the Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta, you’re spreading goodwill all around, and, especially with the Khandha Paritta, goodwill for snakes and other creepy things. There’s a story in the Canon. A monk was bitten by a snake and died. The monks reported this to the Buddha, and he said, “Well, it’s obvious he hadn’t … 
  12. Book search result icon Udāna Acknowledgements | Udāna
     … Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) Metta Forest Monastery Valley Center, CA 92082-1409 January, 2012
  13. Wealth & Strength
     … It was while we were in Massachusetts that the land was offered here for Wat Metta. So Ajaan Suwat went back and came up with a compromise. The image would be brought here. As he told me afterwards, if this had been Thailand and the temple committee over there had acted in that way, he would have left the monastery and never come back … 
  14. A Full Heart
     … He uses the word in contexts some places where we would use the word heart in English, like a heart of metta, metta-citta. Sometimes it refers to the thinking side, the thoughts you have: That’s also the citta. It’s important to see there’s no real distinction between the two. Your thoughts have desires that go along with them, and your … 
  15. Page search result icon Prefacio del inglés | La mente como fuego desatado
     … Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) Metta Forest Monastery Agosto, 1993
  16. Page search result icon Contents
     … through Homage Sambuddhe | The Buddhas Namo-kāra-aṭṭhakaṁ | The Homage Octet Maṅgala Sutta | The Discourse on Blessings Cha Ratana Paritta Gāthā | The Six Protective Verses from the Discourse on Treasures Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta | The Discourse on Goodwill Khandha Paritta | The Group Protection Mora Paritta | The Peacock’s Protection Vaṭṭaka Paritta | The Baby Quail’s Protection Dhajagga Paritta | The Top-of-the-Banner-Staff Protection … 
  17. A Mind Like Earth
     … Years back, I was talking to someone who worked at a meditation retreat center back east, and I asked him if there was a difference between the people on their metta retreats and the people on the vipassana retreats. He said yes, two things. One was the people on the metta retreats use a lot more honey when they fix tea for themselves, and … 
  18. The Rains Retreat
     … And it’s the hottest time of the year at Wat Metta. But we can take this as a good lesson: There’s lots of good we can do even when it’s hot. It’s so easy for the mind to say, “Well, today’s too hot, I can’t do this, I can’t do that, I can’t meditate, I can … 
  19. Metta & Merit
    Sabbe satta sada hontu, avera sukhajivino: We chant that toward the end of every chant in the evening, in the morning. That’s spreading goodwill. Katam puñña-phalam mayham sabbe bhagi bhavantu te: That’s dedicating merit. Both of these sentiments come basically from the goodness of the heart that wants to share its goodness. But they go about it in different ways. When … 
  20. The Noble Pursuit of Happiness
     … Sometimes you hear just nothing but metta, metta, or in some cases, compassion, compassion, but you need all four: goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. That’s one of the reasons why we have that chant at the beginning of every meditation to remind ourselves that all four of these form our motivation. And these are the implications of that motivation: that we want … 
  21. Page search result icon Metta Math
    Every evening before we meditate, we have a chant on the sublime attitudes: universal goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. Because we do it every day, it’s all too easy for us to simply mouth the words without really thinking about what we’re saying, even though it’s translated in English. So it’s good to stop and think: One, why do … 
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