Metta (Lovingkindness) Meditation

The Metta Sutra is the Buddha's instructions for living a life of peace and good will toward all beings. Dedication to recitation and practice of Metta can be transformative. 

Everyone, regardless of experience, is welcome to join our online Metta community for 30 minutes of guided reflection and meditation based on the Metta Sutra. No charge, but dana (free will donation) appreciated. The text of the Sutra is below.

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Metta Sutra

This is what should be done by one who is skilled in goodness and knows the path of peace: 

Let them be able and upright, straightforward and gentle in speech. 

Humble and not conceited, contented and easily satisfied. 

Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways, peaceful and calm, wise and skillful, not proud and demanding in nature nor swayed by the emotions of the crowd.

Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove. 

Wishing: In gladness and in safety, may all beings be at ease.

Whatever living beings there may be, whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, the great or the mighty, medium, short or small, the seen and the unseen, those living near and far away, those born and to-be-born, may all beings be at ease. 

Let none deceive another or despise any being in any state. 

Let none through anger or ill will wish harm upon another. 

Even as a mother protects with her life her child, her only child, so with a boundless heart should one cherish all beings: radiating kindness over the entire world, spreading upward to the skies and downward to the depths; outwards and unbounded, free from hatred and ill will.

Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down, free from drowsiness, one should sustain this recollection. 

This is said to be the sublime abiding. By not holding to fixed views, the pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision,  free from all sense desires, is free from the duality of birth and death.