01. Loving kindness or non-hated. (Metta, Advesa)
Loving kindness is a pure thought that is related to others happiness and not just your own.
The four divine abidings - List
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The four divine abidings, brahmavihara or the immeasurables (appamañña) are qualities to be developed towards all sentient beings without qualification or exclusiveness.
The four divine abidings - List
May all mother sentient beings, limitless as space, have happiness and the causes of happiness!
May they be free from suffering and the causes of suffering!
May they not be separated from the happiness that is free from sorrow!
May they rest in equanimity, free from attachment and aversion!
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May all sentient beings be endowed with bliss.
May all sentient beings be parted from suffering.
May all sentient beings never be parted from bliss.
May all sentient beings be placed in a state of equanimity unperturbed by superstitious conceptions about grasping consciousness and the objects it grasps or by the eight worldly feelings.
The four divine abidings
Synonyms/tags: brahmavihara, Buddhist immeasurables, the four immeasurables, caturbrahmavihāra, Four sublime abodes
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