By Myokei Caine-Barrett, Rebecca Li, Kakumyo Lowe-Charde — 2018
Instead of believing we are such great people for helping others, we can thank all beings for allowing us to be of service.
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CLEAR ALL
The word "love"—one of the most compelling in the English language—is commonly used for purposes so widely separated, so gross and so rarefied, as to render it sometimes nearly meaningless.
Loving-kindness is defined in English dictionaries as a feeling of benevolent affection, but in Buddhism, loving-kindness (in Pali, Metta; in Sanskrit, Maitri) is thought of as a mental state or attitude, cultivated and maintained by practice.
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