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The Two Tiers of Buddhist Loving-Kindness Practice

By Steven Schwartzberg — 2016

Spend some time in any Buddhist setting anywhere and you will quickly recognize a predictable cultural norm: Kindness. This kindness, a conscious inclination of the mind and heart, is the outer manifestation of a core inner ideal: Buddhism elevates loving-kindness (often called metta, from the Pali language) as the one human attribute to be cultivated above all others.

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