Metta as the Buddha meant it — universal, unconditional, the wish for all beings to be free.
The cultivation of unconditional good-will toward all beings. The first of the four brahmaviharas, the 'divine abidings' — and the antidote the Buddha gave to a forest of monks who could not stay in their forest.
Four boundless qualities of heart — loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity — cultivated as meditations and lived as the everyday architecture of relation.
Compassion as the spontaneous wish that all beings be free from suffering. In the Mahayana, karuna is the second of the four immeasurables and, together with wisdom, the very engine of the bodhisattva path.
The third broadcast in the series — the same fifteen-minute frame, a different teacher, the same quiet aim.
