By Sylvia Boorstein — 2007
Loving-kindness meditation (metta) challenges us to send love and compassion to the difficult people in our lives, including ourselves.
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Loving-kindness is defined in English dictionaries as a feeling of benevolent affection, but in Buddhism, loving-kindness (in Pali, Metta; in Sanskrit, Maitri) is thought of as a mental state or attitude, cultivated and maintained by practice.
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