#IndexEntry #Buddhology
### Top 10 referring talks
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<a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> | 78 | <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
<a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> | 70 | <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
<a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> | 70 | <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
<a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a> | 64 | <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
<a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> | 60 | <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
<a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a> | 57 | <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
<a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> | 43 | <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
<a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> | 39 | <a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
<a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> | 29 | <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
<a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a> | 26 | <a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a>
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<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Equanimity (talk) > Doing metta all day long" data-href="Equanimity (talk)#Doing metta all day long" class="internal-link">Doing metta, all day long</a> | 8 | <a data-href="Equanimity (talk)" class="internal-link">Equanimity (talk)</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances > Metta with the energy body awareness while walking" data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances#Metta with the energy body awareness while walking" class="internal-link">Metta with the energy body awareness, while walking</a> | 7 | <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation) > Metta might be an ingredient" data-href="Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation)#Metta might be an ingredient" class="internal-link">Metta might be an ingredient</a> | 7 | <a data-href="Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation)" class="internal-link">Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation)</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and the Emptiness of Things > With metta towards the difficult person or towards oneself perception softens" data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things#With metta towards the difficult person or towards oneself perception softens" class="internal-link">With metta towards the difficult person or towards oneself, perception softens</a> | 7 | <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness > We need to discriminate between metta and compassion" data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness#We need to discriminate between metta and compassion" class="internal-link">We need to discriminate between metta and compassion</a> | 7 | <a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena > Nothing is excluded" data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena#Nothing is excluded" class="internal-link">Nothing is excluded</a> | 7 | <a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > But the mind is coloroud with anger metta romantic love" data-href="Love and Emptiness#But the mind is coloroud with anger metta romantic love" class="internal-link">But the mind is coloroud with anger, metta, romantic love</a> | 7 | <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="From Insight to Love > Over time the groove of metta will be more established than the groove of measuring comparing judging" data-href="From Insight to Love#Over time the groove of metta will be more established than the groove of measuring comparing judging" class="internal-link">Over time, the groove of metta will be more established than the groove of measuring, comparing, judging</a> | 7 | <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Equanimity (talk) > A heart of metta is a happy heart" data-href="Equanimity (talk)#A heart of metta is a happy heart" class="internal-link">A heart of metta is a happy heart</a> | 7 | <a data-href="Equanimity (talk)" class="internal-link">Equanimity (talk)</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4 > Also add metta in an adhoc fassion to counteract self-consciousness" data-href="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4#Also add metta in an adhoc fassion to counteract self-consciousness" class="internal-link">Also add metta in an adhoc fassion to counteract self-consciousness</a> | 6 | <a data-href="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4" class="internal-link">Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > a Remembering death and the unpredicatibility of life" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#a Remembering death and the unpredicatibility of life" class="internal-link">a) Remembering death and the unpredicatibility of life</a> | 6 | <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness > Its more a constellation of feelings" data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness#It's more a constellation of feelings" class="internal-link">It's more a constellation of feelings</a> | 6 | <a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness > Its not always that metta feels its coming from the self" data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness#It's not always that metta feels it's coming from the self" class="internal-link">It's not always that metta feels it's coming from the self</a> | 6 | <a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice > Story metta all the day" data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice#Story metta all the day" class="internal-link">Story: metta all the day</a> | 6 | <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="From Insight to Love > Metta is fabricated but its also the natural state" data-href="From Insight to Love#Metta is fabricated but it's also the natural state" class="internal-link">Metta is fabricated, but it's also the natural state</a> | 6 | <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="From Insight to Love > I wouldnt worry too much about the levels" data-href="From Insight to Love#I wouldn't worry too much about the levels" class="internal-link">I wouldn't worry too much about the levels</a> | 6 | <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Expressions of Metta > Metta is a constallation of feelings" data-href="Expressions of Metta#Metta is a constallation of feelings" class="internal-link">Metta is a constallation of feelings</a> | 6 | <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Expressions of Metta > The near enemy of metta is attached love" data-href="Expressions of Metta#The near enemy of metta is attached love" class="internal-link">The near enemy of metta is attached love</a> | 6 | <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Expressions of Metta > Metta being unconditioned and boundless can seem a bit unreal metta machine" data-href="Expressions of Metta#Metta being unconditioned and boundless can seem a bit unreal metta machine" class="internal-link">Metta being unconditioned and boundless can seem a bit unreal ("metta machine")</a> | 6 | <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Expressions of Metta > Experiment with letting the phrases go" data-href="Expressions of Metta#Experiment with letting the phrases go" class="internal-link">Experiment with letting the phrases go</a> | 6 | <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Samadhi in Metta Practice > We are giving metta to ourselves but we are also receiving metta" data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice#We are giving metta to ourselves but we are also receiving metta" class="internal-link">We are giving metta to ourselves, but we are also receiving metta</a> | 6 | <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Daimon, Refracted > Suffuse your body your self you narrative with metta" data-href="Daimon, Refracted#Suffuse your body your self you narrative with metta" class="internal-link">Suffuse your body, your self, you narrative with metta</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Daimon, Refracted" class="internal-link">Daimon, Refracted</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3 > Sometimes our fantasies about the Dharma are inadquate e g what it says about romantic love" data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3#Sometimes our fantasies about the Dharma are inadquate e g what it says about romantic love" class="internal-link">Sometimes our fantasies about the Dharma are inadquate, e.g. what it says about romantic love</a> | 5 | <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas > Bathe that experience in kindness and compassion" data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas#Bathe that experience in kindness and compassion" class="internal-link">Bathe that experience in kindness and compassion</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas > Arising staying passing - holding it in kindness" data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas#Arising staying passing - holding it in kindness" class="internal-link">Arising, staying, passing - holding it in kindness</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas > Including everything bathing it holding it touching it" data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas#Including everything bathing it holding it touching it" class="internal-link">Including everything, bathing it, holding it, touching it</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > e Just to realize suffering is part of life - we are all in the same boat" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#e Just to realize suffering is part of life - we are all in the same boat" class="internal-link">e) Just to realize: suffering is part of life - we are all in the same boat</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice > Samadhi gets into the being on some very cellular level" data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice#Samadhi gets into the being on some very cellular level" class="internal-link">Samadhi gets into the being on some very cellular level</a> | 5 | <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice > Its an energy that one can ride and navigate" data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice#It's an energy that one can ride and navigate" class="internal-link">It's an energy that one can ride and navigate</a> | 5 | <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Joy (talk) > Sometimes in the West joy does not receive the same attention as other brahmaviharas" data-href="Joy (talk)#Sometimes in the West joy does not receive the same attention as other brahmaviharas" class="internal-link">Sometimes in the West, joy does not receive the same attention as other brahmaviharas</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena > Bathing that in loving kindness over and over" data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena#Bathing that in loving kindness over and over" class="internal-link">Bathing that in loving kindness, over and over</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena > Whatever there is in consciousness in the moment touching it with tenderness" data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena#Whatever there is in consciousness in the moment touching it with tenderness" class="internal-link">Whatever there is in consciousness in the moment, touching it with tenderness</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena > Arising staying passing is bathed welcomed allowed in metta" data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena#Arising staying passing is bathed welcomed allowed in metta" class="internal-link">Arising, staying, passing is bathed, welcomed, allowed in metta</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > Rob For now do not mix pure metta and pure compassion practice" data-href="Love and Emptiness# Rob For now do not mix pure metta and pure compassion practice" class="internal-link"> Rob: For now, do not mix pure metta and pure compassion practice</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Practice of Compassion > Yogi I feel I need to connect with mettā before being able to be in the compassion space" data-href="The Practice of Compassion#Yogi I feel I need to connect with mettā before being able to be in the compassion space" class="internal-link">Yogi: I feel I need to connect with mettā before being able to be in the compassion space</a> | 5 | <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Samadhi in Metta Practice > Metta phrases are more helpful than a lot of the other thoughts we have during the day" data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice#Metta phrases are more helpful than a lot of the other thoughts we have during the day" class="internal-link">Metta phrases are more helpful than a lot of the other thoughts we have during the day</a> | 5 | <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4 > Set up the temenos in the beginning and include metta" data-href="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4#Set up the temenos in the beginning and include metta" class="internal-link">Set up the temenos in the beginning and include metta</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4" class="internal-link">Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > With metta you take away the energy from the pattern of self-judging" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#With metta you take away the energy from the pattern of self-judging" class="internal-link">With metta you take away the energy from the pattern of self-judging</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > Drop in not me not mine very lightly wanting to feel the love" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#Drop in not me not mine very lightly wanting to feel the love" class="internal-link">Drop in "not me, not mine" very lightly, wanting to feel the love</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness > Near enemy of metta is attached love" data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness#Near enemy of metta is attached love" class="internal-link">Near enemy of metta is attached love</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness > The squeaky clean metta machine" data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness#The squeaky clean metta machine" class="internal-link">The squeaky clean metta machine</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice > No being taken for a ride not taking them personally" data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice#No being taken for a ride not taking them personally" class="internal-link">No being taken for a ride, not taking them personally</a> | 4 | <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Joy (talk) > We really need to recognise joy and what there is to appreciate" data-href="Joy (talk)#We really need to recognise joy and what there is to appreciate" class="internal-link">We really need to recognise joy and what there is to appreciate</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > So far metta was directed to beings" data-href="Love and Emptiness#So far metta was directed to beings" class="internal-link">So far, metta was directed to beings</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > Rob Compassion practice tunes into suffering and the outgoing healing can feel like metta" data-href="Love and Emptiness#Rob Compassion practice tunes into suffering and the outgoing healing can feel like metta" class="internal-link">Rob: Compassion practice tunes into suffering, and the outgoing healing can feel like metta</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > Rob Both sensible and youll get very quick at doing it either way" data-href="Love and Emptiness#Rob Both sensible and you'll get very quick at doing it either way" class="internal-link">Rob: Both sensible, and you'll get very quick at doing it either way</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Practice of Compassion > When metta meets suffering it transformsinto compassion" data-href="The Practice of Compassion#When metta meets suffering it transformsinto compassion" class="internal-link">When metta meets suffering, it transformsinto compassion</a> | 4 | <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="From Insight to Love > What is going on in this retreat here how insights can lead to love" data-href="From Insight to Love#What is going on in this retreat here how insights can lead to love" class="internal-link">What is going on in this retreat, here: how insights can lead to love</a> | 4 | <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="From Insight to Love > 3 possibilities + anatta" data-href="From Insight to Love#3 possibilities + anatta" class="internal-link">3 possibilities + anatta</a> | 4 | <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="From Insight to Love > Reflect about the other persons death" data-href="From Insight to Love#Reflect about the other persons' death" class="internal-link">Reflect about the other persons' death</a> | 4 | <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="From Insight to Love > The unfindability of a fixed sense gives way for space where metta can come in" data-href="From Insight to Love#The unfindability of a fixed sense gives way for space where metta can come in" class="internal-link">The unfindability of a fixed sense gives way for space where metta can come in</a> | 4 | <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="From Insight to Love > The more metta the less soil fear has to establish itself as a habit" data-href="From Insight to Love#The more metta the less soil fear has to establish itself as a habit" class="internal-link">The more metta, the less soil fear has to establish itself as a habit</a> | 4 | <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Expressions of Metta > Category the self" data-href="Expressions of Metta#Category the self" class="internal-link">Category "the self"</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Expressions of Metta > Category friend" data-href="Expressions of Metta#Category friend" class="internal-link">Category "friend"</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Expressions of Metta > Guilt and remorse" data-href="Expressions of Metta#Guilt and remorse" class="internal-link">Guilt and remorse</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Expressions of Metta > Love being unveiled somehow its there all the time" data-href="Expressions of Metta#Love being unveiled somehow it's there all the time" class="internal-link">Love being unveiled, somehow it's there all the time</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a>
<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Samadhi in Metta Practice > 4 Non-entanglement with things" data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice#4 Non-entanglement with things" class="internal-link">4. Non-entanglement with things</a> | 4 | <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a>
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[[Compassion]] | 139 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (21) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (16) · <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (15) · <a data-href="Compassion (talk)" class="internal-link">Compassion (talk)</a> (12) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (10) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (10) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (9) · <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> (7) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (7) · <a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a> (6) · <a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a> (4) · <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a> (4) · <a data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas</a> (4) · <a data-href="Equanimity (talk)" class="internal-link">Equanimity (talk)</a> (3) · <a data-href="Compassion Part Two - Compassion for Ourselves" class="internal-link">Compassion Part Two - Compassion for Ourselves</a> (2) · <a data-href="Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a> (2) · <a data-href="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4" class="internal-link">Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4</a> (2)</span>
[[Love]] | 100 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (13) · <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a> (11) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (11) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (10) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (10) · <a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a> (7) · <a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a> (5) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (5) · <a data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas</a> (4) · <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (4) · <a data-href="Compassion (talk)" class="internal-link">Compassion (talk)</a> (3) · <a data-href="Daimon, Refracted" class="internal-link">Daimon, Refracted</a> (3) · <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (2)</span>
[[Mind]] | 62 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (11) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (11) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (10) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (5) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (5) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (5) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (4) · <a data-href="A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances" class="internal-link">A Hidden Treasure - The Relationship with the Hindrances</a> (2) · <a data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat" class="internal-link">Orienting to This Jhana Retreat</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> (2)</span>
[[Samadhi]] | 59 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (20) · <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (13) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (5) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (4) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="Compassion (talk)" class="internal-link">Compassion (talk)</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> (2)</span>
[[Retreat]] | 54 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (9) · <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (7) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (6) · <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a> (5) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (5) · <a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a> (3) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (3) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (2) · <a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a> (2) · <a data-href="Orienting to This Jhana Retreat" class="internal-link">Orienting to This Jhana Retreat</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (2)</span>
[[Insight]] | 52 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (8) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (5) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (5) · <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> (5) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (5) · <a data-href="Compassion (talk)" class="internal-link">Compassion (talk)</a> (4) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (4) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> (3) · <a data-href="Compassion Part Two - Compassion for Ourselves" class="internal-link">Compassion Part Two - Compassion for Ourselves</a> (2) · <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (2)</span>
[[Experience]] | 50 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (9) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (7) · <a data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas</a> (6) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (6) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (5) · <a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a> (4) · <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (4) · <a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a> (2) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (2)</span>
[[Dukkha]] | 43 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (9) · <a data-href="Compassion (talk)" class="internal-link">Compassion (talk)</a> (4) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (4) · <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> (4) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (3) · <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a> (2) · <a data-href="Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (2) · <a data-href="What is Insight" class="internal-link">What is Insight</a> (2)</span>
[[Embodiment]] | 36 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (7) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (5) · <a data-href="Daimon, Refracted" class="internal-link">Daimon, Refracted</a> (4) · <a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a> (3) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (3) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (3) · <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a> (2) · <a data-href="Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a> (2)</span>
[[Consciousness]] | 35 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (9) · <a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a> (4) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (4) · <a data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas</a> (3) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (3) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (3) · <a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a> (2) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (2)</span>
[[Happiness]] | 30 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Compassion (talk)" class="internal-link">Compassion (talk)</a> (4) · <a data-href="Equanimity (talk)" class="internal-link">Equanimity (talk)</a> (4) · <a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a> (4) · <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> (3) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (2)</span>
[[The Self]] | 30 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Expressions of Metta" class="internal-link">Expressions of Metta</a> (6) · <a data-href="Compassion (talk)" class="internal-link">Compassion (talk)</a> (4) · <a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a> (3) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (3) · <a data-href="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4" class="internal-link">Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (2) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (2)</span>
[[Awareness]] | 28 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (6) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (4) · <a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a> (3) · <a data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas</a> (2) · <a data-href="Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (2) · <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (2)</span>
[[Buddha]] | 24 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (5) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (2) · <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (2)</span>
[[Fear]] | 23 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (8) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (5) · <a data-href="Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4" class="internal-link">Preliminaries Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture - Part 4</a> (2) · <a data-href="Compassion (talk)" class="internal-link">Compassion (talk)</a> (1)</span>
[[Equanimity]] | 22 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (6) · <a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a> (5) · <a data-href="Equanimity (talk)" class="internal-link">Equanimity (talk)</a> (2) · <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (2)</span>
[[Cultivation]] | 21 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (4) · <a data-href="The Practice of Compassion" class="internal-link">The Practice of Compassion</a> (3) · <a data-href="Equanimity (talk)" class="internal-link">Equanimity (talk)</a> (2) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (2) · <a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (2)</span>
[[Dharma]] | 20 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1</a> (3) · <a data-href="The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3" class="internal-link">The Way of Non-Clinging Part 3</a> (3) · <a data-href="Joy (talk)" class="internal-link">Joy (talk)</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (2) · <a data-href="Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (2)</span>
[[Emptiness]] | 20 | <span class="counts"><a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a> (5) · <a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a> (3) · <a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a> (3) · <a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a> (2) · <a data-href="From Insight to Love" class="internal-link">From Insight to Love</a> (2) · <a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a> (2)</span>
### Quotes
**<a data-href="Equanimity (talk)" class="internal-link">Equanimity (talk)</a>**
<span class="counts"><a data-href="2006 New Year's Retreat" class="internal-link">2006 New Year's Retreat</a></span>
> [R]eally putting a lot of time, energy, effort into cultivating a heart of loving-kindness. Then that's there in the heart, it's a quality that's a frequent guest in the heart. That makes a huge difference, because kindness is a quality that brings happiness, it brings happiness. A heart of metta is a happy heart. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Equanimity (talk) > A heart of metta is a happy heart" data-href="Equanimity (talk)#A heart of metta is a happy heart" class="internal-link">A heart of metta is a happy heart</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena" class="internal-link">Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena</a>**
<span class="counts"><a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a></span>
> We're not so interested in precision right now, just the kindness flowing, touching, surrounding, permeating experience. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena > Whatever there is in consciousness in the moment touching it with tenderness" data-href="Guided meditation - Metta to phenomena#Whatever there is in consciousness in the moment touching it with tenderness" class="internal-link">Whatever there is in consciousness in the moment, touching it with tenderness</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Love and Emptiness" class="internal-link">Love and Emptiness</a>**
<span class="counts"><a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a></span>
> There's nowhere outside of acceptance. There's nowhere outside of love. So if we feel resistance, if we feel non-acceptance, if we feel judging, if we feel numb - whatever it is, the love, the space of love, can just be bigger, bigger than that, and see that, too, and embrace that, too, and bathe that, too, in the kindness, in the complete welcoming. And this welcoming has to be, this total welcoming has to be as genuine as possible. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > Relaxing back into a space of metta" data-href="Love and Emptiness#Relaxing back into a space of metta" class="internal-link">Relaxing back into a space of metta</a>_</span>
> Mind always has some mind state. So with [mindfulness](app://obsidian.md/mindfulness), there's always _some_ degree of something on the range from complete unconditioned bliss of loving-kindness to rage. The mind will be somewhere along that spectrum. It _has_ to be. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > But the mind is coloroud with anger metta romantic love" data-href="Love and Emptiness#But the mind is coloroud with anger metta romantic love" class="internal-link">But the mind is coloroud with anger, metta, romantic love</a>_</span>
> So what we notice is, if we change the view, the perception changes. The irritability goes from the situation. How we see the situation and how we see a person depends on what the mind is bringing to it - mettā, compassion, irritability, what I want, whatever it is. And the mind's always bringing something. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > Changing the perception can make the irritability go away from the situation" data-href="Love and Emptiness#Changing the perception can make the irritability go away from the situation" class="internal-link">Changing the perception can make the irritability go away from the situation</a>_</span>
> So it's just whatever's in consciousness, whatever's prominent, there the mettā goes. And also quite quick to see what the relationship with things is. With practice, it just becomes very evident: there's some slight aversion here. And it's clear, and then the mettā comes in or the compassion or whatever. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and Emptiness > Rob Both sensible and youll get very quick at doing it either way" data-href="Love and Emptiness#Rob Both sensible and you'll get very quick at doing it either way" class="internal-link">Rob: Both sensible, and you'll get very quick at doing it either way</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Equanimity in Compassion" class="internal-link">Equanimity in Compassion</a>**
<span class="counts"><a data-href="2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2007 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a></span>
> So this practice that we've been doing this week, with directing kindness towards things, and sometimes the things fade - one actually sees that, through the lack of kindness or the lack of acceptance, a perception is actually getting built, it's getting fabricated or compounded, to use the Buddha's words, constructed in the moment. Without the mind doing something, that perception cannot be there. So something, whatever's going on, is just a perception. It's just fabricated. It's empty, in other words. It's empty. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Equanimity in Compassion > Practice seeing things as just perceptions" data-href="Equanimity in Compassion#Practice seeing things as just perceptions" class="internal-link">Practice: seeing things as just perceptions</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice" class="internal-link">The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice</a>**
<span class="counts"><a data-href="2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening" class="internal-link">2008 Lovingkindness and Compassion As a Path to Awakening</a></span>
> So these practices, loving-kindness and compassion, are really dwellings for the heart: the heart, the being, the consciousness dwells in a space, in an inner space, of beauty, of sublimity, of something that feels divine. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice > Our mind is often dwelling in unhelpful places" data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice#Our mind is often dwelling in unhelpful places" class="internal-link">Our mind is often dwelling in unhelpful places</a>_</span>
> This is a very fluid, very responsive practice. One of the skills in _samādhi_ practice, one of the skills in _mettā_ practice, is responsiveness. So what is the way of using the phrases or leaving the phrases that's most helpful right now for you? That's it. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice > Your need for the phrases changes" data-href="The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice#Your need for the phrases changes" class="internal-link">Your need for the phrases changes</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness" class="internal-link">Exploring the World of Loving Kindness</a>**
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> And this is partly why we keep encouraging this sensitivity that's developed in your practice, particularly sensitivity to the body, and just actually _allowing_ the _mettā_ to take these subtly different flavours, at times. Sometimes, when it has that feeling, to go through that, and really just allowing that. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness > Its more a constellation of feelings" data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness#It's more a constellation of feelings" class="internal-link">It's more a constellation of feelings</a>_</span>
> So _mettā_ in its aspiration is: it doesn't matter what you do, what you give me back, what you say, whether you're grateful, what you've done, whether I like you - none of that. It's unconditional. But usually, there are strings and conditions attached to our love, and it's actually attached love. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness > Near enemy of metta is attached love" data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness#Near enemy of metta is attached love" class="internal-link">Near enemy of metta is attached love</a>_</span>
> There's self, and there's effort involved, and the phrases, and we're creating this _mettā_. But again, talking about aspects of _mettā_, facets of _mettā_, it's not always like that. And there are other ways that it can reveal itself. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness > Its not always that metta feels its coming from the self" data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness#It's not always that metta feels it's coming from the self" class="internal-link">It's not always that metta feels it's coming from the self</a>_</span>
> What was needed was very clearly a pure embrace of loving-kindness, breathing to expand the capacity of accepting the unacceptable and relax. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness > Embrace pain lovingly" data-href="Exploring the World of Loving Kindness#Embrace pain lovingly" class="internal-link">Embrace pain lovingly</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion" class="internal-link">Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion</a>**
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> [L]ove and fear have this kind of inverse relationship. Originally, the Buddha offered the _mettā_ practice to a group of monks who were really, really afraid in the forest. That was his initial offering as an antidote and as a response to fear. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > Fear is an aversion that blocks love" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#Fear is an aversion that blocks love" class="internal-link">Fear is an aversion that blocks love</a>_</span>
> And our life involves an incredible amount of uncertainty and change. That's the nature, that's the fabric of our existence. And they, like us, are subject to that. So just holding this lightly, this sense of _anicca_ that they are vulnerable to, holding that in the awareness very lightly, as one's doing the _mettā_, can either kick-start the _mettā_ when it feels like it's a little bit blocked or it can't really get off the ground... <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > a Remembering death and the unpredicatibility of life" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#a Remembering death and the unpredicatibility of life" class="internal-link">a) Remembering death and the unpredicatibility of life</a>_</span>
> So you kind of make them somewhat empty, but not completely empty, so you've still got a sense of somewhere you can direct the _mettā_ towards. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > 2 You can play with how formed you make someone" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#2 You can play with how formed you make someone" class="internal-link">(2) You can play with how formed you make someone</a>_</span>
> _[M]ettā_ is not a technique. We're interested in technique, but what we're interested in is finding the technique and the approach that works for you. If, for the most part, that means no words, you're not alone in that. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > You dont have to keep trundling the phrases out" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#You don't have to keep trundling the phrases out" class="internal-link">You don't have to keep trundling the phrases out</a>_</span>
> [I]t may be that you can find a place where it's okay, and actually just radiate the _mettā_ from there, or feel the _mettā_ from there. And eventually, it washes over everything. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion > 2 put attention elsewhere" data-href="Using Insight to Deepen Love and Compassion#2 put attention elsewhere" class="internal-link">(2) put attention elsewhere</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Compassion (talk)" class="internal-link">Compassion (talk)</a>**
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> [W]hen the stream of loving-kindness, the stream of _mettā -_ if it's running, when it meets suffering, it turns organically and very naturally into compassion. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Compassion (talk) > It wants to alleviate the suffering" data-href="Compassion (talk)#It wants to alleviate the suffering" class="internal-link">It wants to alleviate the suffering</a>_</span>
> Cultivating, developing, reinforcing - remember these habit pattern things we keep talking about. You get a record in a groove. And we're saying, with the _mettā_ and compassion, you can change that groove. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Compassion (talk) > Reinforced grooves of habit can close the doors for the possibility of deep happiness" data-href="Compassion (talk)#Reinforced grooves of habit can close the doors for the possibility of deep happiness" class="internal-link">Reinforced grooves of habit can close the doors for the possibility of deep happiness</a>_</span>
> You can actually be in the practice, doing the _mettā_ or the compassion - bring this in. Think about Big Bangs, and think about stardust and the way the breath is permeable. Bring it in, and see what happens. It needs practice, but it will lead to love and compassion. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Compassion (talk) > Interpenetrating" data-href="Compassion (talk)#Interpenetrating" class="internal-link">Interpenetrating</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas" class="internal-link">Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas</a>**
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> So directing the stream of loving-kindness and compassion towards that experience itself, whatever the prominent experience right now, or whatever any experience in consciousness right now, just bathing it with kindness, with tenderness. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas > Bathe that experience in kindness and compassion" data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas#Bathe that experience in kindness and compassion" class="internal-link">Bathe that experience in kindness and compassion</a>_</span>
> Whatever it is that comes up, if there's resistance or numbness, holding that in kindness. Total, complete welcoming. If there's no feeling, if there's boredom, anger, fear, confusion, whatever it is in this moment, bathing it in love, totally welcoming it, over and over. Nothing is exempt. Nothing is out of the range. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas > If theres resistence or numbness - holding it in kindness" data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas#If there's resistence or numbness - holding it in kindness" class="internal-link">If there's resistence or numbness - holding it in kindness</a>_</span>
> Including everything. You can even include the kindness itself. You can include the intention of kindness, the intention towards kindness. Gross or subtle, whatever is in consciousness in the moment. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas > Including everything bathing it holding it touching it" data-href="Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards Dharmas#Including everything bathing it holding it touching it" class="internal-link">Including everything, bathing it, holding it, touching it</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things" class="internal-link">Love and the Emptiness of Things</a>**
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> [T]hrough cultivating loving-kindness and compassion, we're also nurturing and establishing the best possible climate for our growth: so psychological, emotional, spiritual growth. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and the Emptiness of Things > We are nurturing the best possible climate for our growth" data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things#We are nurturing the best possible climate for our growth" class="internal-link">We are nurturing the best possible climate for our growth</a>_</span>
> We can, in our practice, direct this stream, at times, when we feel a stream of loving-kindness and compassion, actually direct it towards experience, whatever the experience is, and actually bathe that experience in loving-kindness and compassion, _or_ compassion, or both, or a mixture, or whatever it is. We can _hold_ it in compassion, _hold_ it in love, or _let_ it be held in that water of love. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and the Emptiness of Things > Recap guided meditation directing the stream of loving-kindness and compassion towards experience" data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things#Recap guided meditation directing the stream of loving-kindness and compassion towards experience" class="internal-link">Recap guided meditation: directing the stream of loving-kindness and compassion towards experience</a>_</span>
> The mind, the heart begins to soften because one's meeting oneself with _mettā - can_ do. Things soften, the mind softens, the _eyes_ then soften, and the _perception_ softens, because perception is dependent on the state of the mind. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Love and the Emptiness of Things > With metta towards the difficult person or towards oneself perception softens" data-href="Love and the Emptiness of Things#With metta towards the difficult person or towards oneself perception softens" class="internal-link">With metta towards the difficult person or towards oneself, perception softens</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva" class="internal-link">The Birth of a Bodhisattva</a>**
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> When the mind, when the heart, is small, restricted, that karma ripens - the memory of what we did, or what happened to us or whatever - ripens in that context of the restricted, the constricted heart. In the unrestricted heart, the immeasurable heart - so one that is either immeasurable through loving-kindness and compassion, or joy or equanimity, one of the _brahmavihāras_, immeasurable that way, or unrestricted through _samādhi_ or through insight - in the unrestricted heart, when that karma ripens, when it comes up, when the memory comes up or the effects from the past come up, memory or otherwise, it's in a very different context. And the Buddha said it will barely be noticed. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Birth of a Bodhisattva > Ripening of karma from the past" data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva#Ripening of karma from the past" class="internal-link">Ripening of karma from the past</a>_</span>
> That's what wisdom or insight or _paññā_ means: we're understanding the causes and conditions that lead to suffering. And out of that very understanding is born compassion. That very understanding will bring with it compassion. So one could never go anywhere near loving-kindness practice or compassion practice, and just the deepening of the insight will bring compassion naturally, effortlessly, organically, because we're going into the causes and conditions and _understanding_ that. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="The Birth of a Bodhisattva > Compassion is borne out of the understanding of the causes and conditions of suffering" data-href="The Birth of a Bodhisattva#Compassion is borne out of the understanding of the causes and conditions of suffering" class="internal-link">Compassion is borne out of the understanding of the causes and conditions of suffering</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1" class="internal-link">Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1</a>**
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> I cannot reduce a romantic love relationship or a marriage to _mettā_ . There's something more involved, or that needs to be involved. Part of that 'more' is what we're going to call eros, what we're calling eros. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1 > All this is not really adequately addressed in the Dharma at present" data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1#All this is not really adequately addressed in the Dharma at present" class="internal-link">All this is not really adequately addressed in the Dharma at present</a>_</span>
> [E]ros is more than _mettā_ ; it's not the same as craving; it's not even just wholesome desire, _hitacchanda,_ or desire that leads to less suffering. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1 > We need a more sophisticated Dharma psychology" data-href="Dilemmas and Delineations - How did we get here Part 1#We need a more sophisticated Dharma psychology" class="internal-link">We need a more sophisticated Dharma psychology</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="An Introduction to the Jhanas" class="internal-link">An Introduction to the Jhanas</a>**
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> So yes, _samādhi_; yes, insight; and yes, psychological work; and _yes_, the cultivation of virtues and the beautiful qualities - _mettā,_ and generosity, and compassion, all those - those four together... <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="An Introduction to the Jhanas > Jhanas alone will not liberate totally" data-href="An Introduction to the Jhanas#Jhanas alone will not liberate totally" class="internal-link">Jhanas alone will not liberate totally</a>_</span>
**<a data-href="Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation)" class="internal-link">Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation)</a>**
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> I think if you want to go deep in _mettā_, you probably want to eventually separate it from the breath, okay? Because you're going to get so deep that the breath actually stops. So you need to keep them separate. At the beginning, though, it might help... <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation) > Metta might be an ingredient" data-href="Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation)#Metta might be an ingredient" class="internal-link">Metta might be an ingredient</a>_</span>
> So you might be finding a particular key that works for you, but it's really got a larger context of, again, if you're a chef, you're just, "This needs a bit more" - whatever the _mettā_ would be, pepper or whatever. It just needs a bit more, and you're just adding. <span class="counts">_<a aria-label-position="top" aria-label="Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation) > Metta might be an ingredient" data-href="Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation)#Metta might be an ingredient" class="internal-link">Metta might be an ingredient</a>_</span>