The formal cultivation of loving-kindness. May all beings be safe, happy, peaceful, at ease.
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.
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.
The third broadcast in the series — the same fifteen-minute frame, a different teacher, the same quiet aim.