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  2. Book search result icon Handful of Leaves, Volume Three SN 46:54 Goodwill | Mettā Sutta
    Goodwill Mettā Sutta  (SN 46:54) On one occasion the Blessed One was staying among the Koliyans. Now there is a Koliyan town named Haliddavasana. Then, early in the morning, a large number of monks adjusted their lower robes and, taking their bowls & outer robes, went into Haliddavasana for alms. Then the thought occurred to them, “It’s still too early to go for … 
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  3. Directing Yourself Rightly
     … You can’t just have a mantra of “let go, let go” or “metta, metta”—or whatever, and hope that the mantra will take care of everything. You’ve got to understand why is it that you let yourself get disturbed and what the assumptions behind that are. If your peace of mind is disturbed by the world at large—by the heat, by … 
  4. Goodwill Without Limits
     … Your metta is there for them regardless of what they’re doing, but the metta means that you hope they learn to behave in a skillful way themselves, and that you’ll be happy to help them in that direction. After all, how does the Buddha say you harm other people? You harm them not so much by killing them, stealing their things, or … 
  5. Comfortable with Yourself
    We just had a chant on metta: goodwill for yourself, goodwill for the people around you. And it was expressed as a wish. Now we actually put that wish into practice. Concentration is a practice of being comfortable with yourself. If there’s no sense of comfort in the present moment, you can’t really settle down. So you can use the breath as … 
  6. Purity of Heart
     … Without him, we wouldn’t have Wat Metta. We wouldn’t have this place to practice. So. Dedicate your practice today to him. What does it mean to dedicate your practice? You make up your mind that you’re going to do this for the right motive. As he said, the purpose of the practice—whatever you’re doing, whether it’s generosity, virtue … 
  7. A King’s Dhamma
     … The fact that we have a place like Wat Metta, right here, right now, owes a lot to him. So it’s good to reflect on what we owe to him. And just in the same way as the Buddha said the best way to pay homage to the Buddha would be to practice the Dhamma in accordance with the Dhamma, it’s good … 
  8. Page search result icon Prefacio de la traductora | La mente como fuego desatado
     … Densho Quintero, escritor y traductor, quien leyó el manuscrito e hizo sabias sugerencias, a Isabella Trauttmansdorff y Xiaoxi Wang, residentes en Wat Metta por las tantas veces que me llevaron a la biblioteca de Valley Center para poder trabajar en la traducción con acceso a diccionarios vía internet, a mi hermana Nancy, traductora oficial, quien me ayudó con expresiones idiomáticas inglesas ininteligibles para mí … 
  9. Look After Yourself with Ease
    There’s that phrase in the chant when you’re spreading thoughts of goodwill to yourself: “May I look after myself with ease.” As with all the thoughts of metta for yourself, it’s not selfish. Think of times in the past, or sometimes in the present, when you’re with someone you love, and they’re suffering. And there’s nothing you can … 
  10. Sutta search result icon Glossary
     … unlimited goodwill (mettā), unlimited compassion (karuṇā), unlimited empathetic joy (muditā), and unlimited equanimity (upekkhā). Bhava: Becoming. A sense of identity within a particular world of experience. The three levels of becoming are on the level of sensuality, form, and formlessness. Bhikkhu: A Buddhist monk. Chedi (Thai): A spired monument, usually containing relics of the Buddha or other arahants. Deva (-tā): Literally, “shining one.” An … 
  11. Fabricating Goodwill
     … That’s why, when we discuss issues like metta, goodwill, it’s not just a matter of sitting with that determination—although that’s an important part at the beginning, being mindful of our general goal. But it’s also a matter of how we think about implementing that goal, how we carry it through. We usually don’t think about this while we … 
  12. Admirable Friendship
     … When we first were setting up Wat Metta, a lot of Americans came and said, “Well, now that you’re in America, you have to change things. You can’t hold to the rules you held to in Thailand. You can’t do things the way you did them in Thailand because now you’re in America. Things are different here.” My response was … 
  13. The King’s Dhamma
     … Here at Wat Metta we benefited from what he did as well, because he kept Thailand together all those years when other countries in the area were falling apart. That gave the ajaans had the opportunity to practice. People from other nations came and had the opportunity to practice with the ajaans. Then they could bring the Dhamma out to the rest of the … 
  14. Equanimity & Endurance
     … The first type is what Ajaan Fuang would call metta falling down the well. You see somebody else down in the well, you try to pull them up, but they’re heavier than you can pull. They end up pulling you down. The second type is when someone else is getting out of the well. You have your ideas about how they can get … 
  15. Book search result icon Itivuttaka Introduction | Itivuttaka
     … Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) Metta Forest Monastery Valley Center, CA 92082-1409 March, 2013
  16. Feed the Hungry Mind
     … It’s ironic that so many people think that the Buddha didn’t teach any “shoulds.” I sat in on a class one time when a teacher was explaining the Karaṇīya Mettā Sutta. The first word, karaṇīya, means this “should be done” by someone who is skilled in aims. In other words, you know what you’re going for. Someone raised his hand: “I … 
  17. Elemental Normalcy
    Traditionally, when you’re practicing metta meditation, you start with people who are easy to feel metta or goodwill for: people close to your heart, people you love. And then once you feel a sense of well-being with that goodwill, you start spreading the same thoughts to others who are more and more difficult until you find that you can sincerely wish that … 
  18. The Buddha’s Shoulds
    Years back, I sat in on a class where a teacher was talking about the Karaniya Metta sutta, the sutta we just chanted. He started with the first line, “This is what should be done by someone who appreciates the state of peace.” Immediately, a hand shot up. Someone in the class said, “I thought there weren’t any shoulds in Buddhism.” And I … 
  19. Determined on Goodwill
     … There’s a passage in the Karaniya Metta Sutta we chanted just now of being resolved on this mindfulness of goodwill for all. When you’re working on this path, it can’t be simply out of disgust for the world or anger at people who’ve been difficult. It has to come out of goodwill. You try to nurture that quality in your … 
  20. Refuge
     … Years back, when we were starting Wat Metta, we’d get people coming up here and telling us, “Well, now that you’re in America, you have to change the rules, you’ll have to change the way you do things.” My thinking was, “Here I am, far away from my teachers, far away from the place I was trained. If I abandon my … 
  21. The Buddha’s Qualities
     … That’s one of the reasons why we have the chant on metta, because often those issues involve other people: “This person said this, that person said that, how could they do that?” You get yourself all entangled in those issues. So ask yourself, do you really want to be entangled over that person, that kind of issue, that kind of thought in your … 
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