The Four Sublime States: The Practice of Loving Kindness

This booklet contains essays on the four sublime states (brahmavihara) of love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity by Ven. Nyanaponika Thera and Ven. Nanamoli Thera. Nyanaponika describes all four states with contemplation exercises, while Nanamoli focuses on metta with translations from the Pali Canon. 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.

• | Author: Bhikkhu Nanamoli, Nyanatiloka Mahathera, Nyanaponika A. Thera
• | Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society,Sri Lanka
• | Publication Date: May 08, 2000
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9789552401701
• | ISBN-10: 9552401704