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Teachings and Reflections

Articles and Interviews

The Brahma-Viharas
DaeJa Napier
Northwest Dharma News: June/July 2004

Meeting Upon the Path: An Interview with DaeJa Napier
Northwest Dharma News: December/January 1999/2000

Dharma Mirror Interview: An Interview with DaeJa Napier
Dharma Mirror: Fall 1999

Cultivation of the Brahma-Viharas
DaeJa Napier
Northwest Dharma News: August/September 1997

Yogi Reflections on the Brahma-Viharas

Reflections on cultivating metta, karuna, mudita and upekkha

Articles from Access To Insight

The Four Sublime States: Contemplations on Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity
Nyanaponika Thera
The Wheel, Publication No. 6

Metta: The Philosophy and Practice of Universal Love
Acharya Buddharakkhita
The Wheel, Publication No. 365/366:

The Heart Awakened
Eileen Siriwardhana
Bodhi Leaves, No. 93

Educating Compassion
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
From "Purity of Heart"

Mudita: The Buddha's Teaching on Unselfish Joy
Four essays by Nyanaponika Thera, Natasha Jackson, C.F. Knight, and L.R. Oates
The Wheel, Publication No. 170

The Practice of Loving-Kindness As Taught by the Buddha in the Pali Canon
Compiled and translated by Ñanamoli Thera
The Wheel, Publication No. 7

Suttas on Metta from the Pali Canon

Karaniya Metta Sutta: The Discourse on Loving-kindness
Samyutta Nikaya 1.8

Metta Sutta: Good Will
Anguttara Nikaya 4.125

Metta (Mettanisamsa) Sutta: Discourse on Advantages of Loving-kindness
Anguttara Nikaya 11.16

• The Four Brahma-Viharas
• metta
   loving-kindness
• karuna
   compassion
• mudita
   appreciative joy
• upekkha
   equanimity
• The Four Divine Abidings