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The Practice of Loving-Kindness (Metta) as Taught by the Buddha in the Pali Canon

By Ñanamoli Thera

The word "love"—one of the most compelling in the English language—is commonly used for purposes so widely separated, so gross and so rarefied, as to render it sometimes nearly meaningless. Yet rightly understood, love is the indispensable and essential foundation no less for the growth and purification of the individual as for the construction of a peaceful, progressive and healthy society.

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