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Roma

2018

A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.

135 min

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Aging as a Spiritual Practice: A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser

The bestselling author of Work as a Spiritual Practice presents a user’s life guide to aging well and making every year fulfilling and transformative. Everything changes.

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Sylvia Boorstein Reads the Buddha's Teachings on Loving-Kindness

the Buddha's instructions on loving-kindness. Filmed at the 2017 Lion's Roar Annual Retreat, "Boundless Love."

Sylvia Boorstein

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2016 - Metta/Loving-Kindness Takes You Far Deeper- SN 46:54

The Visuddhi Magga, a bible of Theravada Buddhism, says that Metta (and the Brahmaviharas) will only get you to the 3rd jhana but the suttas of the Samyutta Nikaya says Metta will take you much deeper. And if practiced as part of the Brahmaviharas will lead you to Nibbana itself.

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Virtual Metta Retreat (1): What Is This Thing Called Loving-Kindness?

Talk 1 (of 10) in the 10-day Virtual Retreat given by Ajahn Sona at Birken Forest Monastery, December 2020.

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Lovingkindness – Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding

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The Six Stages of Metta-Bhavana (Loving Kindness)

I have a love-hate relationship with the aphorism “happiness is a choice.” On the one hand, the saying has wonderful potential: it can speak to the power we could have (or already do have) to lift ourselves out of emotional quagmires.

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

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.

Ñanamoli Thera

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When Goodwill Is Better Than Love: The Meaning of “Metta.”

You’ve likely heard of the concept of practicing lovingkindness, a common translation of the word metta. But what if metta and lovingkindness are not quite the same? How could that affect you?

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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The Buddhist Practice of Loving Kindness (Metta)

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.

Barbara O'Brien

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Boundless Heart: The Buddha’s Path of Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity

Compassion, kindness, equanimity, and joy are not only the fruits of the awakened life, but also the path to it—attitudes of mind that can be cultivated through intention and dedication.

Christina Feldman

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