The Four Sublime States & The Practice of Loving Kindness

Download or read book The Four Sublime States & The Practice of Loving Kindness written by Nyanaponika Thera and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet contains two essays: Four Sublime States by Ven. Nyanaponika Thera and The Practice of Loving-Kindness by Ven. Nanamoli Thera. The “four sublime states”, known as the brahmavihara are the lofty mental states of love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity. Ven. Nyanaponika gives a brief description of all four with a section of contemplation exercises for each. He concludes with a section on the inter-relationship of all four. Ven. Nanamoli's essay focuses on the basic brahmavihara of metta, translating for us in his lucid style the key passages from the Pali Canon in which the Buddha taught the practice of metta.