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Metta

Loving-kindness. The first of the four immeasurables. The wish that all beings be safe, happy, peaceful, and at ease.

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Portrait of Sharon Salzberg, teacher of loving-kindness meditation

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Metta — Loving-Kindness

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.

Antique manuscript painting of the Buddha calming the ferocious elephant Nalagiri through loving-kindness, from the Wellcome Collection

Concepts

The Four Immeasurables

Four boundless qualities of heart — loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity — cultivated as meditations and lived as the everyday architecture of relation.

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Sharon Salzberg

American teacher in the Theravada vipassana lineage and the foremost contemporary teacher of metta — loving-kindness — in English. Co-founder of IMS and author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness.

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Meditation for Individual and Collective Peace — III

The third broadcast in the series — the same fifteen-minute frame, a different teacher, the same quiet aim.

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Meditation for Individual and Collective Peace — IV

The fourth broadcast in the series. Daily meditation framed as a small civic act.

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