Mettabhavana meditation

• The brahma vihara are considered to be the ideal qualities and emotions for a person to develop
• Buddhism says you can control your emotions and choose to be calm, joyous and full of loving kindness over anger and hatred
• Mediation cannot create calmness, joy, or loving kindness but it can make conditions where they can develop
• A person who has developed bhrama vihara is unable to hate
• For Buddhists it is important to meditate on bhrama viharas to develop calmness joy and loving kindness
• Buddhists will often meditate on one type of bhrama viharas called metta, which is called Mettabhavana
• Mettabhavana means to meditate on the emotion of lovr
• Metta means love but is translated as loving kindness as it is difficult to say what love is
• It is not about being affectionate or nice but about showing respect by being considerat, kind, polite
• Developing loving kindness helps to stop Tahna
• first you develop self love
• secondly you develop love for friends and family
• thirdly you develop love for neutral people
• fourthly you develop love for enemies
• lastly you develop love for everyone