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  • Also known as metta meditation, this Buddhist practice is designed to help bring a quality of equanimity to our experience of love.

    The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010

  • Also known as metta meditation, this Buddhist practice is designed to help bring a quality of equanimity to our experience of love.

    The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010

  • Also known as metta meditation, this Buddhist practice is designed to help bring a quality of equanimity to our experience of love.

    The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010

  • The second wing of mindfulness teaches a practice known as metta or “loving-kindness meditation.”

    The Chemistry of Calm M.D. Henry Emmons 2010

  • Also known as metta meditation, this Buddhist practice is designed to help bring a quality of equanimity to our experience of love.

    The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010

  • To get back in touch with love, I tried a type of meditation Buddhists call metta, focusing on loving-kindness.

    Practicing Love, Building Community 2007

  • Though "metta" practice originated in the Buddhist tradition, it is a universally applicable practice which can deepen every person's connection with their own spiritual or religious tradition, as well as with their families, friends and co-workers.

    Karen Kisslinger: Peacefulness on Earth....Good Will Toward Everybody 2008

  • So, with good intentions for the health and happiness of all, I offer up instruction in the essentials of the meditation practice of "loving kindness" or, as it is traditionally called: "metta".

    Karen Kisslinger: Peacefulness on Earth....Good Will Toward Everybody 2008

  • In the next stage, you try to transmit "metta" or love to a good friend, then a "neutral" acquaintance, then a person you dislike and then finally throughout your neighbourhood and the world.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • The first stage is to focus on yourself and feel "metta" or love for yourself.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

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