metta

Publication Day! The Heart’s Awakening

It's always an interesting day when one of your books is published. It's exciting. But you're sending your inmost thoughts…

October 14, 2025

12 Ways to respond to unkindness with kindness

I came across this on Mastodon (the BEST social media platform), shared by user Vee, and thought it was really…

September 3, 2024

Mudita is not “sympathetic joy”

This is an extract from the introduction to my current course on Mudita, which is part of a longer series…

April 23, 2024

The thing you may sometimes confuse with true kindness

Someone recently wrote to me sharing his reservations about the use of the word "love" to translate metta. Metta is…

June 1, 2021

Love isn’t what you look for; it’s how you look

In one of my early experiences of lovingkindness meditation (metta bhavana), a teacher told me to look for feelings of…

February 4, 2020

From fear and denial to love and acceptance

In the opening words to his book “The Road Less Traveled,” the late psychiatrist M. Scott Peck says: Life is…

April 16, 2019

Seven tips for people who struggle with lovingkindness practice

In the tradition I practice in, lovingkindness (metta bhavana) and mindfulness meditation are considered equally important, and yet my own…

March 14, 2019

Practicing in balance

There's an unfortunate tendency these days to see mindfulness as being the only quality we need to develop in meditation,…

June 25, 2018

The world needs your kindness

Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart Should one…

March 17, 2018

This simple tweak to the way you write emails might change your entire day

How many emails do you write in the average day? I just did a quick count and yesterday alone it…

February 2, 2018