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### Mettā

References:

The Four Godly Thoughts
Godly Thoughts Expansions
[MN 7]
WP: The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #7: The Simile of the Cloth, Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi trans., pp120
ATI: The Simile of the Cloth, Thanissaro, trans.
PTS: Middle Length Sayings, I:#7: Simile of the Cloth, Horner, trans., pp48

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Mettā | Friendly Vibrations | Amity | friendliness, abiding in friendliness | universal benevolence | loving-kindness | loving-kindness | love | love | loving-kindness | loving-kindness |

Pāḷi Text Society
Pāḷi English Dictionary
Edited by T. W. Rhys Davids and William Stede
[EDITED ENTRY]

Metta: [abstr. fr. mitra = mitta, cp. Vedic maitraṅ. According to Asl. 192 (cp. Expos. 258) derived fr. mid to love, to be fat: "mejjati mettā siniyhatī ti attho"] love, amity, sympathy, friendliness, active interest in others...desire of bringing welfare & good to one's fellow-men...-- Phrases occurring frequently: mettā ceto-vimutti D I.251; S II.265; A IV.150...mettā-sahagatena cetasā with a heart full of love D I.250; II.186; III.49 sq., 78, 223 sq.; S V.115; A I.183; II.129; IV.390; V.299, 344; expld in detail at Vism 308. mettāṅ karoti (loc.) to be friendly or sympathize with...mettā-cittaṅ kindly thought, a heart full of love D I.167; III.237...and mettā-jhāna love-meditation...
-bhāvana cultivation or development of friendliness (towards all living beings) J I.176; III.45; Miln 199; Vism 295.
-vihārin abiding in kindliness...Vism 324...

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