Metta (Loving-Kindness): The Practice of Universal Love
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Metta, also known as loving kindness, is an attitude of universal love that is radiated to all living beings in the world without discrimination. In Buddhist teachings it is said that there are four divine states of mind which are naturally and unceasingly experienced by those who are enlightened. They are metta (loving-kindness), compassion, joy and equanimity. Together they are called the Four Immeasurables or the Four Brahma-Viharas. By training in these states of mind through meditation we can tap into these divine states and create the causes for experiencing happiness now and in the future.
In this video I look at cultivating the first of these divine thoughts: metta. In particular, I describe what metta is, what are the advantages in practicing it, what are some of the obstacles that might prevent us from cultivating genuine loving-kindness, and I highlight some practical tips that we can employ to ensure our formal metta meditation practice is a success.
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Sutta used in this video:
"Kakacupama Sutta: The Parable of the Saw" (MN 21), translated from the Pali by Acharya Buddharakkhita. Access to Insight, 30 June 2010,www.accesstoins.... Retrieved on 27 October 2013.
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Your videos are next to perfection, this channel has been a blessing to me. I have bipolar type one disorder and I was really depressed, started with the studies of Buddhism with your channel already made me a nicer and better person. Thank you. From heart. From Brazil.
Thanks Stephen. I'm very happy to hear that my videos inspire you and that you enjoy them. :)
That's fantastic that you have developed that sort of mindfulness of your thoughts. It's only when we can 'see' them, that we can respond to them with wisdom instead of habit. ;) It's exactly what I'll be covering on the video of Right Mindfulness in the near future. Keep up the mindfulness practice - it's liberating!
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I feel it's very important to use this same meditation for ourselves.
To set the goal outright to never react with anger will only lead to getting angry at ourselves for getting angry.
If we first allow ourselves the compassion to accept all thoughts we may have, whatever they may be, no matter what they may be, and accept all emotions/sensations we have in this same way, then loving others becomes second nature, for all is only reflection of ourselves.
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I have been doing Buddhist studies between 1981 and 2007 I stopped practicing and have just recently discovered your meditation videos and I thank you so very much for bringing me back into the fold. I have begun my practice again.
love-kindness is a great way of eradicating the 5th "fetter or chain" = vyapada or ill will.
Such a great video, Thanks a lot!
I LOVE ALL YOUR MEDITATIONS & TEACHINGS HOWEVER THIS IS MY FAVORITE.. IT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE, THE WAY I SEE THINGS, PEOPLE AND SITUATIONS . THANK YOU MINDAH FOR ALL YOU HAVE TAUGHT ME..
Your videos have inspired me to seek the path of enlightenment you truly have become one of my favorite teachers I'm looking forward to seeing something new from you. I think the most interesting thing that I've learned is that human suffering is a result of craving and that if we could eliminate that craving even just a little we can be much happier thank you again
Having watched all your videos in the recent past, I came back to this one. I think with more knowledge of the topics you discuss in your other videos make viewing this a second time seem more enlightening. There's a deeper understanding of it that I discovered was lacking when I watched it the first time. I suppose what I'm saying is that I find it helpful to view your lessons more than just once. But that goes for anything: it takes practice and continued instruction to "get it." :)
Thanks, Mindah, for such wonderful videos.
Thank you I am looking forward to hearing more...very well done
Metta... a most excellent Word. "The perfect love needs an unselfish instrument, absolutely freed from fetters of every kind. When you love a member of your family or a compatriot, let it be with a ray of the Infinite Love!" ~ Baha'i Faith
The Beauty of Inner Peace of Mind.
Dear Mindah- This is pure gold! The penultimate truth so brilliantly and purely related to us. I will memorize the prayer and do my best to practice it always. Thank you most deeply for such a perfect presentation, and for ALL of your beautiful work: you are a treasure to all who are lucky enough to find you! With great respect- Van
Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
In happiness there is a light.
May all beings be light.
I love your Dharma lessons Mindah-Lee Kumar! I send you much peace, love and happiness from Mentor, OH...........:)
Thanks William! May you be happy and well and free of all suffering. Much metta to you.
Thank you Mindah. May you be well and happy always. With Metta!
Thank you, Mindah-Lee for sharing your knowledge of the Buddha and his teachings. I have been a fan of Ajahn Brahm for about a year now - my first real introduction to Buddhism. Even though I had a feeling that you might know of him, you so gladdened my heart when you mentioned his name. I am quite suspect to what a lot of people pass off as true Buddhism today, i.e. Mindfulness, but you have my full confidence and look forward to learning and improving my life with your wisdom and metta.
Do a video on what enlightenment is
Loving-kindness meditation is very sweet 😊
Hi Mindah. Thank you so much for your videos. I watch all of them and they encourage and inspire me to meditate and practice. As a matter of fact, after watching this, I'm going to go "sit" "sat" and meditate for an hour or so upon it.
As my practice has grown, I am able to see that all my negative feelings are products of Ego and not my Self, even if I feel justified in my anger towards another. When those feelings arise, I still try to catch myself and say, "That's my Ego. That's not me."
I cant fall that deep into meditation yet but your videos can give me peace of mind :)
Prayer of universal loving kindness
Thank you so much for this.You are so lovely.Thank you.
I am really loving the compassion series. Your videos are fantastic. Thank you so much!!
Oh great, Mindah! That's exactly what I need. Can't wait for that one. Cheers, and have a great day or evening wherever you are! :)
I wonder how much "Metta" influenced the word "Meta" as in "beyond" or "transcendent?" Also, it's interesting how Maitri is related to the name Maitreya, the Future Buddha, to whom the Buddha addressed the second part of his "First Turning of the Wheel of the Law" sermon in Benares. Well, anyway, you make this learning and practice fun, and I thank you again! Cheers!
Very helpful. Will try it. Very much identical to what Christ has taught and lived.
You are so lovely, this is the first time I see one of your videos and I liked your explanation very much :) Suscribed inmediately.
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Love this message. TY
Thanks Tracy. I really appreciate your feedback. :)
Bhavatu sabba mangalam
Loving Kindness! I am Jewish but G-d is found in all paths and beings! shalom! loving kindness the law of karma (good unto any being attracts good, bad unto any being attracts bad) is the most sound. respect all life, the true Judaism is very similar to much native American philosophy, Judaism is dynamic, we have to respect all spirits of life, and we must not blindly follow leaders but think for ourselves, maintaining morality following our heart not just instructions on a page, because the heart knows and is in constant connection to the divine, this is true Judaism.
This is something I'm having a very hard time with. How do I extend love and compassion to people that I know do not give that back to me and others? I try so hard to not be upset with the people around me, but they show time and time again I mean nothing in their lives. I can't get past the anger and sadness that arise when I try to extend love/compassion/understanding to these people. It makes me feel stupid and ignorant, sending love and kindness to people that openly show me how little I mean to them. How do I get past this?
The first step is to stop resisting your anger, or any other emotion. How can we calm the storm if we are ourselves buffeting the waves?
Just allow all - allow all feelings - and remove yourself from the mind and into the body. There, just feel what the raw sensation is like. What is it just feel the raw sensation of what the mind calls anger? It is simply some heat and tightness in the body. Just stay with that. It will be overwhelming in some situations, but stay with it. Remember, leave aside thought. Let it be.
All will fade this way, and the love from which all rises will shine forth.
Rupert Spira has a great video called "Awareness cannot know fear". I highly recommend it. He guides a questioner through her own extremely agitated emotion, and the way he does so is wonderful.
Here's a link for anyone interested: ruclips.net/video/89xCSx9A56Q/видео.html
*loving kindness for all relations and the circle of life*
Such a sweet women you are, a genuine beautiful soul ❤️
Dear Mindah-Lee could you define equanimity please.
Hi Mindah,
Repetitive and obsessive indulgence in most spiritual dogmas , prayers, scripture reading and most rituals one may find uplifting, but in reality, they.are as useful as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic - it feels one is doing something useful but it makes no difference in the end - they sink. I am bemused and sometimes ponder, why precious time is wasted in the aforementioned acts and the dissecting of teachings in abundance , especially when Buddha has shown us the way by spending time beneath a Bodhi tree in a state of meditation to gain spiritual liberation - Nirvana. Shouldn’t serious meditation dominate our lives with only the accompanying teaching of the ‘Eight Fold Path’? In essence, what more is really needed to be a devout Buddhist?
I Enjoy encountering your radiant face Mindah. Too-da-loo Mike Watson
Another way to enhance compassion for others that unnecessarily harm us, is to understand the illusion of free will (i.e. if i went back in time i could have consciously done otherwise). However, every decision is preceded by a multitude of factors I had no control over. Therefore, i am merely a witness of my thoughts and actions. For example, I did not choose my parents, or the moment in history i was born, or the society or environment i grew up in, or my genetics, or the neurophysiology of my brain, yet these and many other unconscious variables precede every decision i make. Furthermore, thoughts merely appear in consciousness. I am not authoring them. I can't choose them before I think them. That would require that I think them, before I think them. (Sam Harris has some excellent RUclips videos on the illusion of free will). If I can't control my next thought and I don't know what it will be until it appears, where's my freedom of will? However, this does not make life fatalistic, it makes life deterministic. I cannot take credit for my talents, but it matters if i use them. I cannot be blamed for my shortcomings and failings, but it matters if i correct them. Therefore, no-one can be blamed for harming you, because they had no choice. Once you truly grasp this concept, the notions of holding a grudge, hatred, retribution and revenge become completely meaningless. But compassion for others no matter what they do to you becomes much more meaningful.
Nice lesson.I like how you mention in so many words, how one must first embrace themselves than outwardlly express that love amd compassion~wisdom.Most people do not know this or donot love themselves due to the narrative mind you mention.
gmilut Hasidim - deeds of loving kindness
Mindah, I'm sorry that this has nothing to do with anything but... is your hair naturally black? xD a bit shallow of me to ask when you are speaking of such importance things but it's a lovely colour you have there and I was just wondering since its so dark. btw, since I'm at it, I understand that you live in Australia (?), are you native from there? idk you have an "exotic" appearence, not exactly aussie if you know what I mean xD anyway, thank you for your wonderful videos x
loving kind ness .
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Loving Kindness for Tibet
Unselfish and equilibrium spiritual practice to attain a line that is squarely in the middle.
One who practice Metta with pure intention mind, will surely see and acquire the results.
It explains in how and how to in Karaneeya Metta Sutta.
yay metta
Kindness
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.
Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone
who journeyed through the night with plans
and the simple breath that kept him alive.
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.
Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore,
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you every where
like a shadow or a friend.
I don't have enemies at all, is that good or bad ?
If you don't have anyone you would call an enemy - that's great! If you practice metta meditation then when you imagine your enemy, the key is to think of people that arouse any aversion in your mind, e.g. thinking of politicians you don't like or murderers. It then becomes a task of practicing metta (and some compassion) towards them.
Mindah-Lee Kumar (The Enthusiastic Buddhist) thanks a lot for your advice, has came in a perfect time, I'm Cuban and I've been glad for the death of Fidel Castro as an icon and murderer, but you're right it may hurt my mind in some how. I love your videos!
Have you defeated the enemies of sickness, decay and death yet?
loving kindness for hawaii
when i watch your videos i feel like im being healed
मैत्रीभावना पर अच्छी किताब अमेजन पर उपलब्ध है-
'मैत्रीभावना : मानसिक स्वास्थ्य एवं सुखी जीवन का चामत्कारिक योग' - प्रो. कमलाकर मिश्र
Please everyone send me good wishes because I’m suffering intensely
Divine Living of Brahmanas And Brahmanas.
Basis of Budhism is reincarnation and law of karma . The necessity of Budhism is impermanence , sufferings and concept of no soul 🙏🙏🙏
I understand Metta more to mean universal benevolence and good will. If others are happy they will not have ill will to you. It's kamma. Pema is love in Pali. The Buddha didn't say much good regarding Pema. It is a source of much suffering. As far as "self interest" gaining Nibbana is in ones "self " interest. The Buddha never said "there is no self" Think of Samsara as a jail cell and envision a crawl space out to a peaceful open field. (Nibbana) Using the 7 wings one yokes mental qualities to fit one's "self" through the crawl space. Nice video but
that url though