Metta loving-kindness meditation retreat at The Barn

What is Metta?

Metta, which is also known as loving kindness, friendliness or solidarity, is a practice of intentionally cultivating benevolence as the orientation of the heart and mind.

And it's also a path to wisdom.

Metta sits alongside the three companion qualities of joy, equanimity, and compassion that naturally exist in an awakened heart and mind, all of which are both attitudes to develop, but also anchors to hold us steady in these increasingly challenging times.

Metta is considered to be boundless in nature - you will never reach a point where you cannot cultivate more metta.

And over the days together we'll be exploring this capacity to expand the heart, offering love to ourselves, to our friends, our families, our allies, expanding out to those we may find more challenging or difficult, and to the world as a whole, this capacity to love the world.