Natalie Willmer (now Karunajoti), from the Auckland Buddhist Centre in New Zealand, with a short talk on the metta sutta – an ancient Pali text that contains some of the Buddha’s words and teaching on metta (loving-kindness). Karunajoti describes her response to first coming across these words of the Buddha; some of them inspired her, but some of them raised questions…

Listen to the sutta being chanted

This is the first of a short series of 10-minute talks from different practitioners from around the world that we’ll be posting in the run-up to the Urban Retreat that starts next Saturday, November 9th.

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