2010-01-14 "Lake" Metta Meditation 22:58
Mark Coleman	Download Stream Order
A guided visual metta meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center:  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat for Scientists & Educators

2010-01-14 Infusing Metta Into Daily Life 59:09
Mark Coleman	Download Stream Order
How do we bring love and compassion into our lives and relationships and what ares of our lives will benefit from the qualities of metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center:  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat for Scientists & Educators

2010-01-12 Everybody has to arrive safely 56:33
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Stream Order
Providing an overview of the Metta Sutta, demonstrating how it outlines the three foundations of practice: sila, samadhi and panna. Includes an explanation of concentration as the antidote of all afflictive emotions and includes stories of travel as examples of how everyone has to arrive safely.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center:  Metta Retreat

2010-01-11 Part 1: The Arc of Metta Part 2: What Compassion Isn't 64:45
Heather Martin	Download Stream Order
Part 1: How differences in this practice work for different people. Part 2: Compassion is doing nothing more than tenderly holding whatever pain arises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center:  Metta Retreat

2010-01-09 What we're doing here 50:58
Trudy Goodman	Download Stream Order
Mettafying the hindrances to death! This is what should be done by one who is skilled in goodness. How we maintain the self through excluding our vulnerability. The protection of inclusion, no one left out.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center:  Metta Retreat

2010-01-08 Mindful of the climate of the heart 27:04
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Stream Order
This introduction to a week of lovingkindness practice presents metta as a specific subset of mindfulness practice: paying attention to the presence or absence of good will in the mind. It includes an explanation of how the practice of continual blessing, “praying without ceasing” cultivates concentration of the mind. Concentration is presented as the antidote to all afflictive energies and the ground out of which our natural good will manifests.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center:  Metta Retreat

2009-11-19 Opening the Doors of the Heart 56:10
Mary Orr	Download Stream Order
How can we open our hearts? This talk explores the practices of forgiveness and compassion, as well as that of gratitude. The Metta Sutta provides the background for this exploration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center:  Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-11-11 Guided Metta Meditation - Neutral and Difficult Person 45:52
Greg Scharf	Download Stream Order
A short introduction to working with the neutraland difficult person - Followed by a guided Metta meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center:  Two-Month Retreat

2009-11-04 What the Buddha Really Taught: The Metta Sutta 54:51
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Stream Order
Spirit Rock Meditation Center:  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-11-03 The Secret Beauty of Hearts: Transformations Through Metta 62:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Stream Order
Transformation in practice, whether in mindfulness or metta practice, occurs through repetition, patience, understanding and faith, in a sometimes mysterious way. Using poems and stories, we explore the nature of lovingkindness (metta) and the kinds of transformation that occur as we practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center:  Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart