1. What metta is

    Comment April 14, 2015

    Buddha preaching

    Metta is an attitude of recognizing that all sentient beings (that is, all beings that are capable of feeling), can feel good or feel bad, and that all, given the choice, will choose the former over the latter.

    Metta is a recognition of the most basic solidarity that we have with others, this sharing of a common aspiration to find fulfillment and escape suffering.

    Metta is empathy. It’s the willingness to see the world from another’s point of view: to walk a mile in another person’s shoes.

    Metta is the desire that all sentient beings be well, or at least the ones we’re currently thinking about or in contact with. It’s wishing others well.

    Metta is friendliness, consideration, kindness, generosity.
    Metta is an attitude rather than just a feeling. It’s an attitude of friendliness.

    Metta is the basis for compassion. When our Metta meets another’s suffering, then our Metta transforms into compassion.

    Metta is the basis for shared joy. When our Metta meets with another’s happiness or good fortune, then it transmutes into an empathetic joyfulness.

    Metta is boundless. We can feel Metta for any sentient being, regardless of gender, race, or nationality.

    Metta is the most fulfilling emotional state that we can know. It’s the fulfillment of the emotional development of every being.
    It’s our inherent potential. To wish another well is to wish that they be in a state of experiencing Metta.

    Metta is the answer to almost every problem the world faces today. Money won’t do it. Technology won’t do it. Metta will.

     

    Source: http://www.wildmind.org

  2. The Triple Gem: Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha

    Comment February 7, 2015

    The central focus of inspiration and devotion for Buddhists
    is the Triple Gem (also known as the Three Treasures and
    the Three Refuges). These three are Buddha, Dhamma
    (Dharma), and Sangha.

    Buddha means ‘Enlightened One’ or ‘Awakened One,’ and
    is generally used to refer to the founder of Buddhism. There
    have been other Buddhas before him, however, and will be
    other Buddhas in the future.

    The word Dhamma (in Sanskrit, Dharma) is often used to
    refer to the Buddha’s teachings, but it also means the eternal
    Truth which the teachings convey to us. Dhamma is threefold:
    the Dhamma that we study, that which we practice, and the
    Dhamma of Realization.

    Sangha literally means ‘community’ or ‘assembly.’ The word
    has two meanings in proper Buddhist usage: the community of
    disciples (whether ordained or not) who have gained Realization
    of any of the stages of Awakening; and the community of ordained
    disciples–bhikkhus (monks) and bhikkhunis (nuns).

    Source: http://mettajon.tripod.com

  3. Nothing is lost in the universe

    Comment February 7, 2015

    The first truth is that nothing is lost in the universe. Matter turns into energy, energy turns into matter. A dead leaf turns into soil. A seed sprouts and becomes a new plant. Old solar systems disintegrate and turn into cosmic rays. We are born of our parents, our children are born of us.

    We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as everything. If we destroy something around us, we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves. Understanding this truth, the Buddha and his disciples never killed any animal.  Link source

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