A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Metta, often translated as loving-kindness, is not something we wait to feel. It’s something we deliberately cultivate, often through the quiet repetition of simple phrases of goodwill: May you be safe, may you be happy, may you be free from suffering.