Living in Beauty - Buddhist Loving Kindness Practice begins with traditional teachings on how we can cultivate metta, or loving kindness, starting from wherever we are now in our lives. This love is the basis for what is known as the Bodhisattva Vow, which is the aim to benefit others as much as we can through actualizing a spiritual path. Metta then finds expression through Engaged Buddhism. In an era of increasing isolation, materialism, fear and despair, metta helps us to tap into our inner richness, and gives us reason to hope. For this reason, metta is the ideal practice for our times. “When we practice metta, we’re dong something very simple.We’re getting in touch with and awakening the heart’s innate capacity for love. So there’s no need to make it complicated, or to have any doubt that this is something we can all do…” From The Method of Loving Kindness Practice, page 23 “We may say that the lives of those without health care in our country are not our business, but we can make it our business; or that the way people live in the slums of Rio, or in Kenya, or in America is none of our business, but we can make it our business; We may think it’s beyond us to be concerned with the availability of basic medicines in the Third World, but we can,in fact, choose to make it our business…” From The Great Bridge to Universal Love, page 65 “One of the great things about metta, loving kindness, is that it is a fresh stream of inspiration. When this quality is awakened and active in us, we know it by the joy we feel throughout each day, and by a quiet assuredness.In this way, metta brings peace as well. We know we will meet what life brings with the best we have in us.”, From Metta and Courage, Unfolding the Qualities of Love, page 94