The Brahmaviharas
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The four altruistic emotions:
- benevolence (mettā)
- compassion (karuṇā)
- empathetic joy (muditā)
- equanimity (upekkhā)
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Canonical Works (20)
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… it is impossible that they should teach the path to that which they neither know nor see
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… how is the liberation of the mind by lovingkindness developed? What does it have as its destination, its culmination, its fruit, its final goal?
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A spiritual practice doesn’t come with external trappings, but with sincere inner change.
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I have been aware of loving-kindness,
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… you can expect eleven benefits when the heart’s release by love has been cultivated, developed, and practiced, made a vehicle and a basis, kept up, consolidated, and properly implemented.
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Besides being a prominent motivation for the delivery of a teaching, compassion regularly features in descriptions of meditation practice in the early discourses
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A conversation about what compassion means across the Buddhist traditions.
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