of equanimity.

be free from pain.

The Taoist philosopher Chuang Tzu told this story:

As Pablo Neruda says:

“May I be happy” or “May I be peaceful”

To be compassionate is to sense from within what it must be like to experience someone else’s experience.

Metta binds all beings together. Buddhist psychology identifies it as the cohesive factor in consciousness. When a person experiences anger, the heart is dry. It becomes moist when that person feels love. When we put together two substances in nature that are dry, they cannot cohere; there is no way for them to join. When we add wetness, these two

The next benefit the Buddha pointed out is that if we practice metta we will receive in return the love of others. This is not a heartless, calculating motivation, but rather a recognition that the energy we extend in this world draws to it that same kind of energy. If we extend the force of love, love returns to us. The American psychologist

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