(in Theravada Buddhism) meditation focused on the development of unconditional love for all beings.
（小乘佛教）对芸芸众生慈悲为怀静坐入定
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Love, or metta, is there because we feel goodwill in that moment toward the person who is receiving; we feel a sense of oneness with them, rather than alienation.
At the retreat, I suggested the possibility of including in our metta even those involved in acts of violence and aggression.
That's why we have metta for other beings - loving kindness.
To learn about the radiating of metta to all beings with children, we have to tap into the store of knowledge accumulated by lay people and parents.
Manjushri's wisdom is good, but until it's opened up emotionally with the great love - the great metta - that Vimalakirti evokes, there's something incomplete about it.
Fuengsin was fulsome in metta (loving kindness).
That is what metta has given me, this reassurance that of course we go through incredible periods of stress and pain, but if we hold on to our love of ourselves through it, we can come out the other side.
The Buddhist counterpart of unconditional positive regard is loving-kindness (maitri in Sanskrit, metta in Pali).
The Buddha called this kind of love metta, which is not identical to what we call love.
You say metta, loving-kindness practice for your boss repeatedly, day after day with no goal, except to release your own heart.
You don't have to make an effort to practice metta, loving-kindness.
She was drawn back to Vipassana meditation, and a practice that Goenka introduced only at the end of Salzberg's first retreat: metta - loving-kindness