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Mettā Sutta
SuttaA brief discourse teaching that the cultivation of goodwill (mettā) brings great benefit.
Mettā Sutta2
SuttaA discourse on four kinds of person who radiate goodwill, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity in all directions, and who are reborn in various Brahma worlds, disciples among them never to return.
Mettā Sutta3
SuttaA discourse similar to the preceding one, in which such persons are said to be reborn in the Pure Abodes of the Brahma world.
Mettā Sutta4
SuttaA discourse on the emancipation of mind attained through goodwill, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity, and the signless, together with the abandoning of the conceit ‘I am.’
Mettā Sutta5
SuttaA discourse on nine qualities that make the observance of the fast day fruitful — the eight precepts together with the radiating of thoughts of goodwill.
Mettā Sutta6
SuttaA discourse enumerating eleven advantages that come from developing goodwill toward all beings.
The eighth discourse of the Uraga chapter of the Suttanipāta, more popularly known as the Karaṇīyametta Sutta, teaching boundless goodwill toward all beings and included among the protective Paritta texts.
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