Loving kindness meditation | EN | Venerable Canda | Venabu 2025

Loving kindness meditation or metta-meditation is a type of practice that fulfils the whole eight fold path. It is a type of unconditional love, committed to the wellbeing of everybody − it is radically inclusive.

While breath meditation creates peace first, and then happiness later − loving kindness meditation creates happiness first and then peace later. It is a type of meditation which makes us sleep well and wake up happy, it protects us from others ill will, people will find us dear and we will find meditation easy.

Loving kindness makes us more courageous, helps us being authentic because we have our inner worth and we can be more transparent about our faults. And this talk is about how to do it.

This teaching was given at Venabu 2025.

  • Publisert: 2025-05-21

    We had more than 50 registered for the Venabu retreat in the spring of 2025, and since spring came early and Venabu was free of snow, there was also the opportunity for a trip and practice out in nature. You can also find the teaching here.

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About the Author: Venerable Canda

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Venerable Canda first encountered the Dhamma in India in 1996 and spent over a decade in Asia training in the Goenka vipassana tradition, later ordaining in Myanmar in 2006. Inspired by Ajahn Brahm’s teachings, she moved to Australia in 2012, received full bhikkhuni ordination in 2014, and began teaching. In 2016 she returned to England to establish the Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project, which now runs Anukampa Grove Bhikkhuni Monastery near Oxford.

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