2008-08-03 Guided Metta Meditation 29:43
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
Guided Metta meditation using the benefactor, self, good friend, and neutral person as the objects of metta. Special emphasis on relaxation and being open.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2008-08-01 Beginning Metta 28:30
Amita Schmidt	Download Listen
Benefactor and self - guided metta meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2008-07-21 Guided Metta Meditation 46:01
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation

2008-07-14 How I Came To Love Metta 57:01
Heather Martin	Download Listen
After initially resisting aspects of this practice, the talk describes how I found my way by making Metta my own.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta

2008-07-13 Metta: Near And Far Enemies 55:13
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The near enemy of metta is attached affection, common in romantic love. The far enemy is aversion, which takes many forms, such as resentment and fear. The talk explores these responses and how to work with them in metta practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta

2008-07-12 The Play Of Love And Equanimity 46:48
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Metta (lovingkindness) is a mind-turning practice, directing our heart and mind towards love and equanimity. How can we support ourselves to make this transformative turn?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta

2008-06-13 Metta Chant with Yogis 4:34
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-06-12 I, Me, Mine 51:00
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Ajahn Amaro picks up on themes that Ajahn Sumedho has been reflecting on during this retreat, including metta (loving kindness), and the fetters that obstruct the spiritual path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-12 Metta 41:34
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Metta with self, friend and difficult person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-06-10 Metta For All Conditions 61:28
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Contemplating Metta as unconditional love and acceptance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monastic Retreat

2008-06-06 Beautiful Metta Chant That Is Very Inspiring; Monks Are Chanting This Chant Every Day In Prison 58:12
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2008-06-01 Metta And Its Challenges; Exploration Of The Classic "Hindrances" In Relationship To Metta: Attached Love, Aversion, Sleeplessness, Restlessness, And Lust 61:28
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Exploration of the classic “hindrances” in relationship to metta: attached love, aversion, sleeplessness, restlessness, and lust.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2008-05-31 An Introduction To Metta 56:06
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
An introduction to and description of Metta Meditation – the qualities of Metta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2008-05-03 Ode To Mindfulness 47:19
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Why we practice mindfulness & why we feel such gratitude for this particular teaching. In this talk, the melding of mindfulness and metta become clear thrugh story and poetry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Yucca Valley Spring Insight Retreat

2008-04-20 Metta Meditation - Morning 27:16
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Jhānas (Meditative Absorptions) Retreat for Experienced Students

2008-04-15 Guided Metta 64:29
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Hermitage

2008-04-14 Metta 67:23
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Hermitage

2008-04-06 02. The Benefits of Metta 55:40
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Three-Month Retreat

2008-04-05 01. About Metta 67:26
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Three-Month Retreat

2008-04-05 Metta as Right Effort 55:58
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Insight Meditation And QiGong

2008-03-14 Brahmavihara Retreat 12:39:57
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana	Download Listen
The brahmaviharas are four mental states that the Buddha encouraged for the practice of meditation. They are loving -friendliness (metta), compassion, sympathetic joy (rejoicing in the happiness of others), and equanimity. Through these practices we develop a loving heart, concentration, self-acceptance, fearlessness and happiness. These practices also establish our fundamental connectedness to all life.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia :  Brahmavihara Retreat

2008-03-06 Metta 57:51
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
This talk discusses metta as a Brahmavihāra practice and cultivating metta in our vipassana practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  March 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-03-01 Metta: Developing Goodwil 56:41
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2008-02-16 Metta In The World 61:52
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Taking Metta practice into the world with intention and integrity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-13 Qualities To Be Cultivated In Metta Practice 55:07
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Metta – Its value, and bring precision, gentleness and the ability to let go, to practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-13 Metta, Tenderness And Connection 60:06
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connectedness to all of life and end a sense of isolation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-11 Mindfulness, Metta And Wisdom 47:40
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores the unity of mindfulness and the qualities of loving kindness, how they support each other and how this leads to living with wisdom and compassion in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-01-29 The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice 1:26:04
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House :  Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-01-27 Opening Talk for the Metta Retreat - LovingKindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening 60:21
John Peacock	Download Listen
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House :  Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-01-10 Drafting On The Happiness Of Others 60:34
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Mudita and the other Brahma Viharas. How wisdom protects equanimity -- and how equanimity if the birthplace of Metta, Compassion and Joy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2008-01-09 How Metta And Equanimity Lived Happily Ever After Together 61:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Metta is a powerful practice that helps us lead with our hearts, develop concentration, and "purify" our bodies, hearts and minds, working through obstacles to metta and touching our deep luminosity. Yet metta sometimes seems opposed to wisdom and mindfulness practice, and particularly to equanimity. We explore the qualities of equanimity and then how mature metta requires equanimity and mature equanimity requires metta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2008-01-08 The Union Of Metta, Compassion & Awareness 60:37
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk discusses the qualities of metta, and the unity of mindfulness and metta -- and how compassion arises as a natural turning of the loving heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2008-01-07 Everyday Metta - What It Is & What It Is Not 55:15
Heather Martin	Download Listen
How the loveliness of a pure heart is so readily accessible; how Metta infuses mindfulness, and the dangers of misunderstanding "love."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2007-11-23 Guided Metta Meditation 40:57
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery :  November 2007

2007-11-20 Metta To Others As To Myself 23:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery :  November 2007

2007-11-07 You Are Love 48:46
Diana Winston	Download Listen
This talk explores the relationship of metta to vipassana, how to deepen your metta practice, and how lovingkindness can become the fundamental ground of your being.

2007-10-26 Supporting And Deepening Daily Life Practice 53:25
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Practicing mindfulness and metta in the United States is definitely challenging for a variety of reasons which are explored briefly. We outline a number of basic supports for practice (daily practice, community, study, etc. ) and then focus on four main ways of deepening daily life practice - (1) Finding regular ways to break habits, (2)Working with a mentor or teacher, (3) Grounding in the body, and (4) Learning to take obstacles and suffering as opportunities. (note: There is a 15 minute gap about 11 minutes into this talk and cuts out again at 53 minutes, due to technical difficulties.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2007-10-23 Metta And The Opening Of The Heart - How Metta Transforms Us 63:15
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Metta is generally described and set in the context of the Brahmavihara - the divine abodes. A number of stories are told illustrating the quality of metta and four ways that metta transforms us are identified - (1) We learn to lead with our hearts; (2) We develop in concentration; (3) We purify our being; and (4) We connect more fully with others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2007-10-14 Metta And Compassion 61:04
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is the role of loving kindness in Dharma practice. How do we cultivate it, what are the obstacles, and what is the full expression of the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1

2007-10-12 Opening Talk for Tranquility, Insight and Awakening - Connection, Curiousity, Care 56:16
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
This talk explores three essential qualities of awareness: the precision and brightness of moment-to-moment connection, the investigation of experience through Curiousity, and the allowing of things to unfold with Care. These aspects, which in free translation correspond with the qualities of Samatha, Vipassana and Metta are shown to be both qualities we can cultivate, and the natural orientation of the truly meditative mind.
Gaia House :  Tranquility, Insight and Awakening

2007-10-05 Metta 53:06
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-10-04 Brahma Vihara - Guided Metta Sitting 47:48
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Self, benefactor and dear friend
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-10-03 Sitting Instructions Using Investigation and Allowing Metta Practice 56:50
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
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2007-10-03 Instructional Sit with Body Sweep 57:43
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
A guided instructional sit, beginning with Metta meditation and expanding into the purposes of reflection. Instructions continuing the practice of attending, investigation with allowance and deep appreciation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-09-25 Metta - Guided Meditation 42:40
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
What is Metta? Introduction to self and benefactor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-08-06 Metta Instructions Forgivemess Day Two 64:00
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Metta Instructions - Forgiveness - Day Two
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-05 The Brahma Viharas: Metta 52:40
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-08-05 Metta Instructions, Self, Benefactor And Friend 1:13:04
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Metta Instructions, Self, Benefactor and Friend
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-07-16 Forgiveness 59:10
James Baraz	Download Listen
Forgiveness is an essential part of Metta practice so that the heart can stay open and the kindness flows out easily. In this talk forgiveness toward ourselves, asking and extending forgiveness with others and forgiveness towards life are explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2007-07-15 Metta As Purification 65:43
Heather Martin	Download Listen
As we settle more into our hearts, we find our beauty. How to hold them all in friendship.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat