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Sep 2, 2026 · 2 min · 1 segments
A beautiful introduction by Ratnavandana to the Brahma Viharas as an integrated set of practices flowing from metta- loving-kindness. Her…
I had a sense for a long time that matter is actually above and beyond anything I can properly articulate.
that it is consciousness itself.
I was really delighted to read Alan Wallace in his Boundless Heart book where he says that there's good reason to believe, intuitively at least, if not on the basis of hard evidence, that the very nature of consciousness is a wellspring of loving kindness.
It is said that the very quality of Buddha nature is that of inexhaustible love and it is already there.
So
as I was saying a bit earlier, the sense that these days, working with that attitude of turning towards, looking very much at my everyday experience is very much how I work with Metta.
Recognising as well that only a small part of my practice takes place on my cushion, that actually most of it takes place in my daily life, in my daily interactions.
And it's there that I can look to see just where I draw my boundaries, to see exactly where I move towards and exactly where I turn away.
So just as it says in the Metta Sutta, and while one stands and while one walks or sits or lies down, still free from drowsiness, one should be intent on this mindfulness.
This is the divine abiding, here they say.
I had a sense for a long time that matter is actually above and beyond anything I can properly articulate.
that it is consciousness itself.
I was really delighted to read Alan Wallace in his Boundless Heart book where he says that there's good reason to believe, intuitively at least, if not on the basis of hard evidence, that the very nature of consciousness is a wellspring of loving kindness.
It is said that the very quality of Buddha nature is that of inexhaustible love and it is already there.
So
as I was saying a bit earlier, the sense that these days, working with that attitude of turning towards, looking very much at my everyday experience is very much how I work with Metta.
Recognising as well that only a small part of my practice takes place on my cushion, that actually most of it takes place in my daily life, in my daily interactions.
And it's there that I can look to see just where I draw my boundaries, to see exactly where I move towards and exactly where I turn away.
So just as it says in the Metta Sutta, and while one stands and while one walks or sits or lies down, still free from drowsiness, one should be intent on this mindfulness.
This is the divine abiding, here they say.
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