In todayand#8217;s FBA Dharmabyte, and#8220;No End to Love,and#8221; Padmavajra describes how love is constant, continuous and spontaneous. This talk, and#8220;Introducing the Great Love,and#8221; was given at the beginning of an intensive retreat focused on the Metta Bhavana meditation practice, the Development of Loving Kindness.
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No End to Love
[music] Dharma Bites is brought to you by Free Buddhist Audio, the Dharma for your life. Our work is funded entirely by donations from our generous listeners. If you would like to help us keep this free, make a contribution at freebuddhistaudio.com/donate. Thank you, and happy listening. [music] So it's an all-inclusive loving-kindness, a boundless loving-kindness, a never-ending loving-kindness, a loving-kindness that is constantly opening up to new kinds of life, to wherever life is, to wherever you find life, you respond with love. So it's sometimes called an apamanya, which means something like an infinitude. So there's no end to love, there's no end to loving-kindness, it just is always going on naturally and spontaneously. Traditionally it's said to be a very strong emotion as well, and even an ecstatic emotion that you're taken right outside of yourself. You're in a way not yourself anymore, it's not you doing it, it just is. So at its height it's constant, continuous, spontaneous, just flowing on, just happening, just the expression of your being, it's natural. And it's also said with this meta, this maitre, that it's practically expressed. Indeed, it comes out in the way you act, it comes out in your speech, it's not just something in the privacy of your heart and mind. That's very important, it's actually quite easy to sit and have warm thoughts. I love you and I love you and all that sort of thing. There's a lovely story that Sangrajita Banti once told of a Burmese gentleman who was very, very religious in his metabarvana practice. Every morning he was a very wealthy man and he'd sit in his personal shrine and he'd do his metabarvana every morning without fail, developing boundless staff to everybody. And one day he was doing his metabarvana and his servant came in with his tea because his servant would always come in and just leave some tea with for him so that he could have a nice cup of tea at the end of his metabar practice. Oh, this morning the old servant who came in, he tripped over and he spilt the tea and immediately the Burmese gentleman jumped up and started beating his servant saying, "You've disturbed my metabarvana, you've fallen!" So yes, a very good illustration I think of what it can be like and probably have all experienced this, have it blissing out in at the end of the metabarvana and then going out and having an argument with somebody, which seems to happen like that, doesn't it, which I think is a great teaching, a great teaching. So yes, metabar is something that's expressed practically indeed. So this is the aim, this is the goal of metabar, this strong, boundless, loving kindness, felt towards everybody fulfilling itself in a practical way. We hope you enjoyed today's Dharma Bite. Please help us keep this free, make a contribution at freebuddhistaudio.com/donny and thank you. [music] [music] [music] [ Silence ]