Friendly Loving Kindness Beams, Blazes
and Shines!
Mettā is defined thus: Loving-Kindness has the mode of
friendliness as characteristic.
Its natural function is to promote friendliness. It manifests as
disappearance of ill-will.
Its source is seeing with kindness. When succeeding, then it eliminates all
angry enmity.
When it fails, then it degenerates into egocentric lust and desire. It can
be practiced
anywhere and at anytime, but ideally sitting cross-legged in a quiet
secluded place and
then whole-heartedly wishing, first beaming it out in front, then to the
right, then to the
back, then to the left and finally below and above in this effective and
exhaustive way:
May I be happy and free from suffering...
May I keep myself free from hostility,
aversion, trouble and thereby live happily...
May I become happy in this way by repeated training of this excellent
goodwill praxis...
Just as I want happiness, absence of pain, life and not death, so do all
other beings!
Therefore: May all beings become thus happy...
May all breathing things become thus happy...
May all creatures become thus happy...
May all deities become thus happy...
May all human beings become thus happy...
May all who have form become thus happy...
May all the Nobles and not Nobles become thus happy...
May all those in the fearful states of deprivation become thus happy...
By being freed from all enmity, distress & anxiety, may they
thus guide themselves to bliss!
The blessed Buddha
often pointed out:
Bhikkhus, whatever kinds of worldly merit there are, all are not worth one
16th part of the
release of mind by infinitely universal friendliness: In shining, beaming,
glow & radiance the
release of mind by infinite, immeasurable and inexhaustible friendliness far
excels them all!
Itivuttaka 27
Video on Mettā Meditation on Friendliness:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz0nE1wRWQY
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Source: BPS
Wheel no 7:
The Practice of Loving-Kindness
(Metta) as taught by the Buddha in
the Pali Canon.
Compiled and translated by
ñanamoli
Thera.
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/Wheels/wh006.pdf
