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The Sacred Art of Lovingkindness: Preparing to Practice

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By Rami Shapiro — 2006

We are all born in the image of God, but living out the likeness of God is a choice. See more...

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2016 - Metta/Loving-Kindness Takes You Far Deeper- SN 46:54

The Visuddhi Magga, a bible of Theravada Buddhism, says that Metta (and the Brahmaviharas) will only get you to the 3rd jhana but the suttas of the Samyutta Nikaya says Metta will take you much deeper. And if practiced as part of the Brahmaviharas will lead you to Nibbana itself.

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2016
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Happiness & Loving Kindness—with Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard shares how loving-kindness can help us lead happier lives and create a better world. This was recorded at an Action for Happiness webinar event on 14 July 2020.

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Matthieu Ricard
2020
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Virtual Metta Retreat (1): What Is This Thing Called Loving-Kindness?

Talk 1 (of 10) in the 10-day Virtual Retreat given by Ajahn Sona at Birken Forest Monastery, December 2020.

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2020
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Three Ways to Practice Loving Kindness / Living Mindfully / Mindful Movement

In today's tip for intentional living, Les shares three different ways to practice lovingkindness meditation, or metta meditation to help you live mindfully.

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2019
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Practicing Loving-Kindness for Anxiety

After years of practicing anxiety, fear, hatred, depression, and so many other feelings we can conjure up in seconds to carry around with us all day, we become very skilled at feeling things we don't like, and very inexperienced at feeling things we do like.

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2015
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Reducing Stress with Loving-Kindness – Susan Piver

Dan Harris and Susan Piver talk about the tools to reduce stress using loving-kindness.

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Susan Piver
2020
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Lovingkindness – Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding

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Tara Brach
2018
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The Six Stages of Metta-Bhavana (Loving Kindness)

I have a love-hate relationship with the aphorism “happiness is a choice.” On the one hand, the saying has wonderful potential: it can speak to the power we could have (or already do have) to lift ourselves out of emotional quagmires.

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Matt Bramble
2016
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The Practice of Loving-Kindness (Metta) as Taught by the Buddha in the Pali Canon

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.

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Ñanamoli Thera
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Why Your Brain Loves Kindness

If you’re familiar to meditation, then you’ve probably tried a basic loving-kindness practice. It involves bringing to mind someone you love, and wishing that they are safe, well, and happy—either out loud or to yourself.

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Stephany Tlalka
2019
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