Venerable Canda: “Metta and Compassion”, Dhamma Talk, Day 6, Venabu Retreat, 26.4.24

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In this talk, Ven Canda dives deep into metta, or loving-kindness, discussing how metta relates to compassion, metta as unconditional love, the inherent wisdom of metta, and metta as a path into happiness and deep meditation. She explores aspects of metta including how it can be used as a training in perception and as an antidote to fear. In the second half of the talk, Ven Canda guides the listener through the practice of cultivating metta through the two primary methods outlined in the ancient texts, finishing with a brief discussion on how metta culminates in the development of insight.

[0:00] - Metta and compassion
[8:05] - Benefits of cultivating metta
[16:45] - Metta and conditioned perception
[19:33] - Metta and fear
[28:45] - Two approaches to cultivating metta
[35:20] - Building metta using different categories of beings
[44:00] - Story of the seven nuns (the aim of metta)
[47:45] - How to practice metta
[53:35] - Adjusting phrases for compassion practice
[54:42] - Recap
[55:51] - Metta for insight and the final goal

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