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Coming Home with Brahmavihara

Coming Home with Brahmavihara

In the past, I wrote about compassion and loving kindness practices to support coming home. In case you didn’t know, these practices are part of a larger collection of buddhist virtues, called Brahmavihara. In pali, brahma means god or divine; vihara means abode. The brahmavihara are known as the “four immeasurables” in Sanskrit or “infinite minds” in Chinese. These virtues can be found in early buddhist texts and non-buddhist literature, like the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali. Brahmavihara includes the following four virtues…

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