2014-08-05 Guided Metta Meditation with Equanimity Practice 45:19
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-08-03 Guided Metta Meditation 46:18
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-07-28 An Awesome Book of Love 29:38
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
(afternoon Metta instructions with the intention to just receive and accept care, kindness and love from other)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2014-07-26 Metta Practice - Many Beings and Self 42:22
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Starting where it is easy to feel an open heart. we can spread a loving awareness to many beings, including this one being of oneself
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2014-07-17 Bringing Your Metta Practice into the World 62:00
James Baraz	Download Listen
How to practically apply Metta practice in daily life towards self, others and beyond that makes a meaningful contribution to the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-14 Metta for the Difficult Person 59:00
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-13 Seeing the Good-Inside and Out 58:42
James Baraz	Download Listen
We find what we look for. Our brains are wired to confirm our beliefs. One key to Metta practice is looking for the good. Then appreciating and enjoying it when it is recognized.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-13 Responding with Kindness 45:19
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Many of us learn to be judgmental and critical, especially towards ourselves. Metta is a powerful practice to diminish and even transform the tendency towards judging.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-12 Summer Camp of Metta 51:08
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
The place of metta in Buddhist practice. Understanding wise effort.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-11 Removing Veils from the Heart 54:56
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Exploring what covers over our innate goodness, including near and far enemies of loving kindness (metta), attached love and hate, and how to uncover the beautiful qualities of our hearts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-10 Kindness is What Matters 50:42
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The essence of Metta is kindness, to ourselves and to all experience. This talk explores how and why we develop loving-kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-08 The Practice of Metta 33:47
Spring Washam	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2014-06-21 Body & Metta 27:37
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara :  Awareness, Body and Metta, Age Sickness and Death

2014-06-20 05 breve Metta 12:00
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2014

2014-04-28 Introduction to Metta Practice and Initial Instructions - with Heather Sundberg 46:37
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta 2 day Retreat with Donald Rothberg and Heather Sundberg

2014-04-18 Purifying the Mind with Metta 51:49
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
As we turn deeply into practice we can let go and move through old habits of anger, fear, and insecurity into our original purity of kindness and clarity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Loving Awareness: Metta & Qigong Retreat

2014-04-17 Reflection On Benefits Of Metta 17:43
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  One Month Hermitage with Marcia Rose

2014-04-16 Guided Metta Meditation 1:14:10
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  One Month Hermitage with Marcia Rose

2014-04-14 Metta The Hearts Release 1:11:14
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  One Month Hermitage with Marcia Rose

2014-04-13 Global Metta and the Web of Life 30:45
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Shakti Vihara

2014-04-10 "Fresh off the Cushion" from sitting the monthlong March retreat at Spirit Rock where she was doing intensive metta practice. 50:01
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Tonight at the monastery, James Baraz was there with Kate Janke, IMCB co-guiding teacher. She shared her insights about metta with us which was an evening full of heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2014-04-10 The Cultivation Of Metta 55:10
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Satipaṭṭhāna: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students Part 2

2014-04-02 Reflections On A Month Retreat 59:39
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Just returned from a month of retreat practice, i offer various reflections on retreat theme, including impermanence and death, working with inner guidance, and taking all experiences in a learning context, and on core practices, (concentration, insight, metta, and open spacious awareness), ending with a brief song.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-03-29 Metta Chants 32:50
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Ariya Baumann

2014-03-20 Metta as Jhana Practice 65:42
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Ariya Baumann

2014-03-19 Metta Stories (Ven. Virañani & Ariya Baumann) 61:35
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Ariya Baumann

2014-03-18 Reflections for Metta Practice 53:31
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Ariya Baumann

2014-03-16 Categories in Metta Practice 52:41
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Ariya Baumann

2014-03-09 Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson 27:17
James Baraz	Download Listen
James Baraz talking about Kalyana Mitta, exploring the idea, "What is 'Spiritual Friendship'?" The word "Mitta" is related to "Metta" or lovingkindness. Mitta means friend, Kalyana is Spiritual. So, KM is a Spiritual Friends group. This term is particularly used in the Theravada tradition to talk about the relationship we have with each other to have that third refuge in the sangha really flourish
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-03-07 Mad Metta 55:47
Jason Murphy	Download Listen
An intervention of the critical mind and aversive habits
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Month Long Retreat

2014-03-06 Brahma Vihara Practice 28:50
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Metta on Self
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Month Long Retreat

2014-02-26 Connection to Life 57:57
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The habit of believing we're different from others leads to a painful sense of isolation. Both vipassana and metta reveal a deep inter-connectedness to all of life that takes away our feelings of separation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-02-14 Guided Metta Instructions 56:56
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-02-09 Last morning instructions, metta retreat 53:19
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2014-02-08 Guided meditation, Metta for the difficult person 20:16
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2014-02-08 Metta: The Heart’s Release 1:19:06
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart’s Release with Marcia Rose and Winnie Nazarko

2014-02-08 Morning instructions on metta and guided meditation 63:04
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2014-02-07 Metta has Many Forms 58:31
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2014-02-07 First morning instructions on metta and guided meditation 54:11
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2014-02-05 Part 1: Universal Faces of Love 1:24:25
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Lovingkindness, or metta, is the first of the four divine abodes in buddhist teachings. This talk explores the habitual patterns of fears and wants that obscure this innate quality of heart and key ways that we awaken ourselves to its luminous presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation: Listening to and Feeling the Moment 21:47 Download Listen Part 1: Universal Faces of Love 62:37 Download Listen

2014-02-02 A Brief Closing Talk with Metta and Some Chanting 16:35
Alan Lewis	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Uncertainty

2014-01-26 Metta Guided Meditation 31:40
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
With Jennifer Berezan on guitar
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Mother of all Buddhas: A Women's Retreat

2014-01-19 Metta Practice in Our Everyday Lives - "Let Your Life and Practice Be One" 53:06
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore (1) our individual metta practice - formal and informal 0 in our daily lives, (2) metta practice in the context of our many types of relationships, and (3) metta practice as service and action in our wider world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta Retreat

2014-01-18 The Eleven Benefits of Metta 54:32
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
The Buddha taught that there are 8 ways to cultivate metta, which manifest into 11 benefits. The talk includes numerous stories from around the world, including the story of how the Buddha came to teach lovingkindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta Retreat

2014-01-17 Metta-– The Heart's Release. 67:03
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
There is a great release of the contractions of the heart... the past pains, hurts and anguish that we've taken in and taken on as "mine", "me", as"I am". It it's not so easy to relinquish these habituated patterns of our-self. Our commitment to our practice and willingness to take the journey is what affords the transformation. Not so easy at times, but well worth it.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-01-16 Metta and Forgiveness 57:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Forgiveness practice is one of the family of "heart practices" and particularly valuable in relationship to difficult experiences, both interpersonal (or social) and in relationship to oneself. We look at forgiveness in the context of metta practice, exploring the dynamics of forgiveness through stories and core guidelines of forgiveness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta Retreat

2014-01-15 The Difficulties Are the Gifts: Metta, Compassion and Their Hindrances 56:11
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
How to bring your metta practice alive in the midst of the inevitable cycles of difficulty and purification. Stories, poems, practices and tools to help us "keep going".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta Retreat

2014-01-13 Metta - Introduction and Instructions 61:47
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2014-01-01 Metta, closing - Guided Meditation 19:04
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara :  New Year's Retreat 2014 - Radical Aliveness Through Awareness

2013-12-31 Guided Heart Metta Meditation with Poetry 41:51
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2013 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2013-12-30 Guided Metta Meditation 36:08
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2013 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2013-12-29 Guided Heart Meditation: Metta 25:51
Ruth King	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2013 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2013-12-28 Ocean of Metta - Guided Meditation 23:47
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) :  New Year Retreat

2013-12-28 Meditation - Heart Metta with Instruction 43:06
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2013 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2013-12-13 Guided Metta Meditation 0:00
Pascal Auclair	(Recording not available)
Evening Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat

2013-12-11 Metta Guided Meditation 25:40
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat

2013-12-08 Instructions - Forgiveness and Metta for the Difficult Person 42:52
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Lovingkindness - A Metta Meditation Retreat

2013-11-22 Questions & Answers: Grounded in the Body; Walking Meditation; Metta, Heedfulness, Stream Entry 64:18
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-20 Evening Chanting 36:46
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
A short reflection on sharing of merit followed by chanting of Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali and English. Meditation period ends with chanting verses of sharing and aspiration
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-11-18 The Brahmaviharas - Metta, Mudita, Karuna And Upekha 54:34
Dhammaruwan	Download Listen
Guided Meditation Instructions on Metta and Compassion. The heart of the path is being a good person. Expounding Metta (friendliness), Mudita (appreciative joy), Karuna (compassion) and Upekha (equanimity).
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-11-11 Evening Chanting 13:31
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Chanting of Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali and English
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-11-07 Evening Metta Chanting 11:01
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Karaniya Metta Sutta chanting in Pali and English. Followed by a silent meditation and a short blessing chant to end.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-11-05 Evening Metta Chanting 12:16
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
A short reflection on dedication of merit, followed by chanting of the Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-11-02 Evening Chanting 35:47
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Chanting of: Invitation to the Devas; Karaniya Metta Sutta - followed by sitting meditation. Period ends with short chant in Pali - impermanence and death reflection.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-10-31 Evening Metta Chanting - 3 month course 35:52
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
A short reflection on sharing merit followed by group chanting of Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali. Followed by chanting of Metta Sutta in English.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-10-28 Metta Instructions 59:04
Spring Washam	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-10-26 Metta Chant and Satipatthana 41:09
Dhammaruwan	Download Listen
Metta and Satipatthana Sutta chanting
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-10-25 Evening Metta Chanting 37:04
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
A short introduction to quality of friendliness, followed by call and response chanting of the Kalaniya Metta Sutta in Pali, followed by chanting in English
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-10-25 The Brahmaviharas - Metta (Friendliness) 56:16
Dhammaruwan	Download Listen
Introducing the Brahmaviharas. Fundamental nature of everyone is to be good. Misconceptions of Metta (Friendliness). Importance of friendliness in meditation practice. How to and how not to practice metta or friendliness. Guided meditation instructions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 2

2013-10-23 Meditation: Guided Metta Practice 26:08
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2013 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2013-10-14 Metta Meditation #2 43:31
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom

2013-10-13 Metta Meditation #1 44:29
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Awareness with Wisdom

2013-10-05 The Parami of Metta 54:54
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Your Life is Your Practice

2013-10-05 Workshop: Lovingkindness 8:21:26
Sharon Salzberg	Listen to tracks Show 8 Tracks
Metta
Common Ground Meditation Center
Lovingkindness - Day 1 - Part 1 1:13:15 Download Listen Lovingkindness - Day 1 - Part 2 25:29 Download Listen Lovingkindness - Day 1 - Part 3 1:23:04 Download Listen Lovingkindness - Day 1 - Part 4 48:59 Download Listen Lovingkindness - Day 2 - Part 1 47:39 Download Listen Lovingkindness - Day 2 - Part 2 1:26:43 Download Listen Lovingkindness - Day 2 - Part 3 1:24:01 Download Listen Lovingkindness - Day 2 - Part 4 52:14 Download Listen

2013-10-02 Metta (Lovingkindness): Allowing the Veils to Fall Away 53:18
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
A talk on how the Buddha's emphasis on loving kindness begins to dissolve the ego's confusion and awakens the heart to its natural expression of love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on Love, Joy, Compassion and Equanimity

2013-09-30 Metta Meditation #2 44:19
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Through Dhamma Eyes, Awareness with Wisdom

2013-09-29 Metta Meditation #1 41:10
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Through Dhamma Eyes, Awareness with Wisdom

2013-09-29 The Wisdom of Metta 57:24
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Through Dhamma Eyes, Awareness with Wisdom

2013-09-27 Guided Metta Practice - Self, Friend and Benefactor 47:07
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-23 Metta First Expression In The World 58:38
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
The "back-story" to Buddha's teaching metta (goodwill)to a community of monks. A chanting (in English) of the Buddha's instructions. Discussion of objections to metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-23 Metta Practice: Working with difficulty 58:39
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-13 Guided Metta Meditation 61:52
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Some overview comments about Metta (loving kindness), followed by real time meditation instruction for this practice. Q&A afterwards
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-06 Introduction To The Brahma Viharas 55:37
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
The back story to the metta sutta and an overview of the four sublime abidings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating a Wise Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-27 Guided Metta Meditation 44:37
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Heart of Practice

2013-08-16 Metta Practice Day 4 38:09
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2013-08-15 Radiating Metta Practice Day 3 50:37
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2013-08-14 Metta Practice in the Context of a Concentration Retreat 48:41
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration Retreat

2013-08-07 Metta Instructions - Day 4 1:10:12
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Difficult Person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-06 Guided Metta Instruction - Day 3 58:40
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Introducing the neutral person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-05 Guided Metta and Instructions 51:31
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Working with near and far enemies.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-04 Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 63:37
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Preliminary Metta instructions including general overview and introduction to "easy person"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-08-03 Body & Metta - Guided Meditation 44:05
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara :  Love, Sexuality and Awakening Retreat

2013-08-02 Guided Metta Meditation 46:26
Vinny Ferraro	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) :  Against the Stream Retreat

2013-07-20 Metta and Compassion 60:34
Steven Smith	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Affectionate Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2013-07-17 Loving The Enemy 46:45
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
How metta practice can help us deal with difficult situations and difficult people. Being an activist with love and courage.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-07-14 Obstacles to Unconditional Love (Metta) 51:14
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What stops us from resting in the heart of love. What hindrances arise in meditation when cultivating metta? This talk explores the power of loving kindness, its obstacles and how to work with them top liberate the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-07-13 Voyage on the Ocean of Metta 47:40
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Why we practice metta: connecting to the Eightfold Path, opening insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-06-30 Metta 1:12:07
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Sayadaw Vivekananda and Marcia Rose

2013-06-29 18 Metta, perdono, pratica per svilupp. determinaz. , Metta 2 57:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2013

2013-06-28 17 canto di Metta 6:50
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi :  Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2013