The Four Sublime Brahma-viharas
Meditative development of the sublime states as a basis for…
Enso My Metta-morphosis Began
An exploration of coming full circle
Metta Magic Tricks Part Two, Beyond Shadow and Light
How the Dharma taught me that light and shadow are a…
Metta’s Magic Tricks
How the Dharma has challenged my illusions, one…
In the World’s Secret Dharma Service by Living the Infinite “Yes”
How the Dharma steered my odd-jobs career to lend a…
Filling the Emptiness with Love at the Duc Son Orphanage
Providing a proper home and hope for abandoned children…
It All Matters: On Metta, Feelings, and Forgiveness
Hatred never ends through hatred. By non-hate alone does it end.This is an ancient truth.
Shoshin and the Fear of Others
The previous two articles in this column, which explored combining location-independence with letting the Dharma take the lead—what I term “lily padding”—described how tonglen dissolves the fear of
Sowing the Seeds of Metta to Dissolve Fears of the Unknown
Last month, I introduced the overall concept of lily padding as a combination of location-independence and letting the Dharma take the lead. During my seven
A Small and Precious Miracle
My first meditation retreat was in 2004, in Ladakh, northern India, at the far western end of the Himalayas. Our meditation hall was an army