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Brahmavihara Dhamma

Part III by Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw

Part III

  1. Mettâ is the way to enhance Dâna or generosity
  2. Preliminary Gatha (Verse) of the Mettâ Sutta
  3. The Deities terrify the five hundred Bhikkhus
  4. The Buddha taught the Mettâ Sutta to deter the deities
  5. Recitation is not enough, one also needs to practise
  6. The Mettâ Sutta Paritta
  7. Ordinary way of developing Mettâ
  8. How to develop Mettâ by dividing it into two or three parts
  9. Manner of developing Mettâ by separating into two parts
  10. Manner of developing Mettâ separating into three distinct parts
  11. Three methods of developing Mettâ by again distinguishing into two parts
  12. Manner of developing Mettâ so as to be free from unmerited misery
  13. How genuine Mettâ should be developed – an illustration
  14. How to develop Mettâ broadly without limit
  15. Time and posture prescribed for developing Mettâ
  16. Living in the exercise of four noble postures, called Vihâra
  17. Appamañña and Brahmacora
  18. Practise to escape the rounds of Rebirth
  19. Manner of practising to get Attaditthi rejected
  20. The Practise to be liberated from entering into a womb
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