A spacious couple of talks, including led reflections, as part of week two of a course led by Vessantara entitled 'Motivation is Everything - the four reminders', also known as the four thoughts that turn the mind to the Dharma or the four common preliminaries.
Padmavajra begins this talk with the chanting of The Karaniya Metta Sutta, in order to invoke 'the blessing power of loving kindness', which according to the sutta needs to be wielded at all times. He explores all of the stages of the metta bhavana (development of loving-kindness practice), as well as showing how metta can lead to wisdom and liberation, at the same time saying: we practice the metta bhavana to love others, Enlightenment is incidental!
