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Metta’s New Foundations

This month, our loving-kindness practitioner explores how walking, service, and simple acts of kindness can become new foundations for embodied Dharma practice.

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Metta’s Purer Shores

While stepping back into a care-giving role, our loving-kindness practitioner encounters uncertainty, conflict, and ultimately, peace.

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Metta-in-Waiting

A journey of caregiving, spiritual searching, and unexpected community reveals how loving-kindness can reshape even the most uncertain chapters of life.

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Metta Makes Space

A reflection on decluttering as a practice of loving-kindness, showing how making outer space can support inner healing during times of overwhelm and transition

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Metta Bagged Up

Through helping a grieving friend declutter her home, our loving-kindness practitioner explores how metta guides us in deciding what to keep, release, and give away

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Metta’s Speakeasy

When others fail to uphold responsibility, our loving-kindness practitioner finds that metta becomes a practice of steady presence, boundaries, and self-care

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Metta Turns a Blind Corner

After months in a toxic workplace, our loving-kindness practitioner finds new ground—and new lessons in how healing really happens, even when we can’t see the way

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Metta Pulls the Plug

Sometimes the Dharma turns by stopping: how one loving-kindness practitioner found renewal through exhaustion, compassion, and truth

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Metta Takes a Seat

Practicing metta amid workplace bullying, our loving-kindness practitioner reflects on patience, right speech, and moral courage

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Metta Holds the Stage

Our loving-kindness practitioner continues her work in a difficult environment, though armed with the realization that none of this is to be taken personally

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Metta’s Changeover

Our loving-kindness practitioner returns to the UK to find not only rewarding work and friendships, but also division and gossip that she must bring onto her path

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