The Metta Metta Blog@zine

Making Frequent Visits to Relatives

2006-10-03T13:45:00.000+08:00

In my years of seeking for peace and happiness, I have realized how a person's mental happiness depends on your contact with Friends and Relatives... especially with your immediate family members and their pets. While on a trip to Penang, my wife and I were able to catch up with her mom and aunt and the cutest of dogs, dear Benny boy. Having constant communication with the people around you is a true blessing! YES... From left: Me, Benny and Aunty Lian
Up Benny Boy! Good fella...

Holiday Tips! What to do? What to do?

2006-04-10T19:38:00.000+08:00

Tomorrow 11 April is a Public holiday in Malaysia. What can you do? For one, you can take your grandma to the temple and make offerings to the monks there. Go on! Generate good merits for everyone. Have a lunch "dana" today!
All you need is some rice, selected food, even chilled cut fruits will be welcomed! Go visit your neighbourhood temple now!

What to do as a Foreigner in Thailand?

2006-04-10T19:31:00.000+08:00

Watch Thai.
Look at things from a Thai perspective.
Smile Thai.
Read Thai.

Tips for a Mini Honeymoon.

2006-04-10T19:26:00.000+08:00

Eat local.
Drink local.
Snack local.
Localize!

Happiness Together

2006-03-29T15:24:00.001+08:00

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's most loving couple Goh Sue San and Daniel Kwok finally gets married to each other on 26 February 2006 after a courtship of 4 years.

The wedding was attended by family, friends and mostly loved ones at Shangri-la Kuala Lumpur to an elaborate 8-course Chinese dinner. Flanked by over 40 waiters, wedding singers and a Wedding Photojournalist, the 2 hour dinner was filled with laughter, some happy tears and music.

"We wish to thank everyone who has attended and wish everyone our love and our joy", said the couple at the end of the wedding dinner. Webpictures by Quek Mei Joon

Short-Cuts That Make You More Productive

2006-02-07T20:02:00.000+08:00

Talk / gossip less. Leave socializing for another time
Check with your boss if you got your objectives right before starting
If you are taking an hour to do what needs to be done only 15 minutes to do, rethink, replan or cut down on time wasters.
Plan Plan Plan.
Stop reading blogs (that complain and gossip). Instead read Blog@ zines that help motivate you to do better!
Know when to rest. It is better to take more quality rests than to work so hard to fall sick later and waste more time.
Stop procrastination by setting deadlines for yourself and giving them to your boss to monitor. Be mature and proactive with your tasks at hand.

Today is the day you can start being more organised. Never fear about how good you can be (that you can never back down later). Who cares what happens tomorrow? Just know that for today if you can finish your work you will be happy and less stressed. Laziness does not pay because of the stress and guilt that comes immediately. Good luck!

5 Questions That Spark Opportunity

2006-01-25T14:03:00.000+08:00

How do you stop working for salary and start working for opportunity?

Are you working for money? If so, are you happy? If the answer is no, then you have to find a higher cause to why you are unhappy with your work.

Working for opportunity takes you beyond the meaningless toil that happens daily. Look beyond your job description and ask:
· What is my responsibility in my company? How dependable am I?
· What abilities do I possess? Am I maximizing my talents? What other skills must I have?
· What is my role in my company? Do I play a big part? Am I a star? How to become one?
· What is my status in my company? How do I improve my status? How can I expand my influence onto others?
· Successful people have the big picture outlook to work, to home and in life. Do I have that big picture outlook?

Start working on the 5 answers above and you will start working for a higher purpose. Opportunity awaits...

No longer do you finish a job just because you have to. No. Instead, each tiny work done is just part of a bigger mission. No one really pushes paper all day… unless you refuse see anything beyond that.

Hint: The more you put into life, the more it pays.

Jungle Hike - Discover your Energy!

2006-01-24T15:54:00.000+08:00

Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) Kepong, Kuala Lumpur - 24 Jan 2006

However fit you are, you will find that you are even fitter then you imagine after a walk in the jungle. Try organizing for a group outing and arrange for FRIM's popular canopy walk.

Totally refreshing idea!

How can I afford it? (An article for Salesmen)

2006-01-24T15:26:00.000+08:00

pic: Daniel Kwok’s adidas Banshee since 1998

Some advice on how to afford new “stuff” you have always wanted.

See this shoe? I have had it ever since the late nineties... still using it. Yes. I know it is time to replace it. But how can I afford it?

There are a few things in my “Things To Buy” list. I want a PDA hand-phone, a new digital camera and a new shoe. On top of that, I would be looking into furnishing a new apartment later this year.

If you so happen to be in Sales (selling for a commission), then you might probably want to recalculate your earnings to reflect your “wants”. Being in sales is a great help for people who want to earn more for their time. And by aligning your “wants” to your commission, you will have the biggest motivation anyone could ever receive.

Calculate backwards

Lets say you want to earn $20K this year. Calculate backwards how much you should sell just to achieve $20K. This new figure is your Personal Target. From there, plan your sales accordingly by quarter, by month and by week. By calculating this way, you may notice that your personal target may be higher than the target your company has set for you.

Does your personal target exceed the target set for you?
Not to worry. Your company has told you not to fall short of your target, but never to stopped you from surpassing it. Just go for it! Let next year worry for itself. Who knows, just by exceeding your sales target you will be promoted to Sales Manager and never worry about sales targets anymore? After all, if you can achieve and surpass your company’s targets, you deserve greater challenges, bigger responsibilities and a higher pay check than what you are receiving.

If it is too much, review your “wants”. Perhaps you do not need it after all? Are there any other alternatives?

Look for other cheaper alternatives.
My adidas Banshee has been coming apart at the seams. At $200 bucks a pair, I have figured that I can still use it after it comes back from the cobbler. I could probably use it until the end of 2006.

Borrowing things from people who are able to lend it to you is also a cheaper alternative. Renting is also an alternative.

What if I don’t do sales or don’t receive a commission?
In your own time start analyzing avenues in your workplace that allows you for a higher income.
1) Analyze your company’s mission and vision to see if you can align your growth accordingly.
2) Analyze your company’s hierarchy to chart your own growth. Perhaps even help create a new department (which you will head) or innovate a new range of products that will grow into a cash cow.

Never allow yourself to fall into the “overtime” trap. Overtime is never a long term strategy. If getting yourself promoted means studying for a Masters in your field, working on extra projects, improving on work conditions around your workplace, or even learning to manage others, do that.

Work on things to accomplish apart from your day-to-day work. You are paid your salary to perform your day-to-day work. You will not receive anything more unless you start taking on your boss’s work. Then, you can receive his salary too.

The secret in affording what you want.
The secret is working hard to accomplish things that will either get sales for you (if you are in sales) or get you promoted. Working hard alone does not cut it. Working hard with a purpose can and will bring you to a higher plane in your company.

Keep On Running!

Concepts and ideas are borrowed from friends and my working environment.

2006 Metta Metta Blog@zine Survey

2006-01-09T21:05:00.000+08:00

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Your Mind Is a Magnet

2006-01-09T20:13:00.000+08:00

Have you ever prayed and chanted for a parking space and found one immediately? Have you wished for something and got it later as a gift?

Call it pure coincidence or luck. Perhaps it is a gift from the Gods as a reward for your complete and undying faith in Him / Her. Maybe you attribute it to your positive Karma generated from past merits. Or perhaps just good Feng Shui.

Whatever your faith, you do attract things or people towards you. Yes! You attract both what you want and don’t want.

So how can we make our magnetic minds work for us? How can I attract what I want?

In my personal observation, and discussions with like-minded people, here are some clues on how our mind-magnet works:

1) Your belief and confidence (commitment) must be real and complete. For example if you are confident that a parking will appear at your asking, it will. Half beliefs will produce half results, late results or smaller results.

2) Requests or prayers out of fear will never work. If there is any doubt or confusion in your thoughts, your mind will not attract your wishes in a positive manner. The opposite will usually come true.

3) Wishes come true when there is no ill-will. That means that wishes that arise from greed will not come true. Greedy thoughts result in loss rather than gain. Jealousy chases your dreams away. Wishes that arises because of "fear of loosing" (loosing a friendship, relationship or money) will encourage loss rather than gain.

4) Positive vibes / positive environments will encourage your wishes to happen. There can be no growth in the desert of negativity. Water your world with love. Allow generosity to shine in your garden of happiness.

This means: Do good and enjoy doing good... You will get goodness in return. Give to others what they truly want or need. Request or make wishes for the things you really want and deserve. Ask for it (from God or from Karma or from Newton’s Law of Action or Reaction) with a mind full of confidence. Once given, receive the gift with thanks, love and honest gratitude. Share the gift with others.

Q: What if whatever I have wished for is given to someone else?
A: Then rejoice and be happy for that person who received it. No sense in feeling sad or jealous because by doing so, you will chase your wishes away. Better yet, be humble and congratulate that person genuinely. Your positive thoughts and words will make your dreams come true faster.

Your mind is a magnet of things to come. Whatever happens in your life was attracted by your mind. Happy minding.

The Power of Thoughts and Words

2006-01-09T17:18:00.000+08:00

Notice how you can never cook delicious food when you are ANGRY?

Or how angry words can hurt for an entire lifetime?

Between angry thoughts and hurtful speech, thoughts are said to carry less harm, but what is not spoken out still resounds in our own minds. What is spoken is released into the universe.

It is believed that the spoken word - be it sweet or foul – can never be retracted. Spoken words are sound waves, an energy form. Like all forms of energy, it can never be destroyed, only transformed into other forms. Do not take lightly the words that will come out of your mouth, the affects will linger in the universe forever.

If this is true, positive words result in positive energy waves, into positive thoughts and actions and so on. Like wise, negative words will result in negative waves, smashing itself into whatever lies in its path.

It is even believed that negative words once spoken will remain forever bouncing off walls and trees… resulting in random negative vibes that you receive now and again.

What this boils down to is:
1) Positive and encouraging thoughts can shape our realities.
2) Positive words to ourselves and others can heal and produce good results
3) Positive intentions without action can make a difference, let alone the positive action itself.

Words shaped and pressed by our lips have great impact on the world. Sharp wounding words shaped by hate are equal to any physical weapon. They injure the listener, perhaps for life. Each time the words are remembered, the wound gets deeper.

Healing emotional wounds requires forgiveness and lots of encouraging and positive words and thoughts.

So dear reader… start sending positive thoughts and saying words of encouragement.

A loving touch that starts from the heart can stop bleeding faster. Food cooked with love tastes better and is emotionally nutritious. Go ahead, heal the world with your thoughts and speech today.

What Will 2006 Bring For You?

2006-01-03T13:07:00.000+08:00

A New Year has arrived and with it comes new vigor for new resolutions to be made and kept.

We are contantly presented with opportunities to become a better person.

So in setting resolutions why not look into these areas:
1) Set goals that will help you in your weaker areas not your strengths.
2) Set goals that are beneficial to yourself and to others. Goals that are harmless, but bring much profit and progress to everyone are best.
3) Set goals that will help you build foundational strengths. For instance, if you want to be more healthy and muscular, you might want to look into improving your stamina first before taking up weights. Building on your foundations will allow you to be able to "expand" on your long term goals later.

Knowing what you will get in the end will make it easier to decide what your goals are this year. So go ahead... Decide in advance what you want to give to yourself this year. Only then can you stop presenting unexpected surprises to yourself on a yearly basis.

Happy New Year 2006 !

Centralize your To-Do Lists

2005-12-14T18:32:00.000+08:00

One lesson I have learnt by experience is the hassle of having too many to-do lists. Sometimes I would have two shopping lists, a to-do list for my wedding, a work to-do list and a home to-do list! Of course, all of them may be necessary, but only by centralizing all of them into a single place and comparing each task, can we begin to see their respective Priorities. From there, plan your workflow.

You might need to invest in a to-do "collection" tool. This comes in the form of Diaries, date books, personal computers and PDAs. The plus point of putting your to-do's in electronic form is that you can set an alarm or reminder to it. It may take a while to make it a habit to collect and update all your to-do's into one main place, but it's worth it.

When jotting down your To-do entry, try to describe the task and the Forward Action / Next Action. If this is not done, procrastination and doubt might set in. Even worse, we might soon forget why we need to do the task in the first place (until someone reminds us at the last minute and it’s too late to do anything). All the best in compiling your To-do's. May your life flourish and your peace of mind blossom!
Picture by Daniel

Personal Brand

2005-12-12T09:07:00.000+08:00

Part of our everyday efforts to "Sharpen the Saw" is to improve our Personal Branding. Notice that office mate who talks about sports 24-7? That's his personal brand. If you want to talk about sports, there is no one else but him.

So what do you do? If there is ONE message you are giving people, which is it?

Are you the tragic complainer? Or the restaurant and food expert? The holiday planner? The fiction book reader? The financial expert? The mother of two? The clown? The gossip? Do you enjoy being branded this way?

If you have evolved into someone you do not want to be, perhaps it is time to build or reposition your Personal Brand.

I find that Personal Branding starts from:
1) how you think into
2) how you talk (and what you talk about) into
3) what you do, what car you drive and what colour you are wearing today.

You can choose to "sharpen" yourself as you like. It all starts by thinking like champion, then talking like one and finally acting like one each day. Happy branding!

Working the 14-Hour Day

2005-12-05T10:13:00.000+08:00

Someone once told me that at my age of 28, if I were to achieve greatness by 35, I would need to work the 14 hour day. Why the extra hours. What goes into the hours?

Let’s look beyond our ages and our jobs. If you want extra out of life, you have to give extra and that is what I have understood finally.

So must a person do with 14 hours a day for the next 7 years that will lead to success?

Let’s break it down.

If my normal working hours are from 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. with an hour of lunch in between, I had better make these hours count for what they are worth before I look into putting myself for an extra 5 hours of work.

First I would have to measure my effectiveness at work. Am I goofing off 30% of the time socializing with my workmates, Surfing the net for personal reasons 20% of the time? If so, I cannot count this into my work day.

The idea of having a 14 hour day is to see if I can build the extra 5 hours to “sharpen the saw”. The rest of the 9 hours at work is to finish the regular work that we are assigned.

This means that 1 hour from the “saw sharpening” time is to exercise. Perhaps I exercise 3 times in a week, then I can spend 2 hours for a full exercise routine each time I exercise.

What goes into the extra 4 hours? I propose Planning, reading and writing and executing. I will write on this further in detail.

That leaves around 10 more hours of my day. Everyone who lives more than 10 minutes from their workplace will spend 3-4 hours a day in transit or just waiting for something.

That leaves around 7 hours to spend being with your loved ones and sleeping.

Can a person live like this, with these sacrifices in life and still be happy? I say yes. If “sharpening the saw” means improving your life.

Bear in mind, this is what your company gives you 14 paid leaves in a year for. To rest and plan and do your banking. Your weekends also to rest and refocus. It is possible. How can I commit to a 14-hour day? By guilt, by dreams, by external motivation and by sheer effort. If you want to talk about someone who works 14 hours a day at one job for the next 7 years to be the best in Malaysia, well talk about me. I will take that step now.

Concepts are borrowed or rehashed. Photo by Daniel

5 Steps to Success

2005-12-05T09:54:00.000+08:00

Ever thought you could one day be super successful? Well why not start with a dream?

Dreams are our first steps to being successful. And banking on the fact that no one dreams to be unsuccessful, dreams can be a great tool to work on if you want to be successful.

Once you have gotten enough courage to dream about success, here is what you do:

1) Decide what success means to you.
2) Decide how you are going to achieve it.
3) Decide now what sacrifices you have to make in order to help you achieve it.
4) Plan accordingly your year, your quarters your months and your days so that you can achieve it.
5) Do it according to plan and know exactly why you need to work as hard as you have to.

Step 1 means that you have to decide what goes into your life and what does not. As a person has 70 odd years in life, there will be a chance to achieve everything that you want in life. But that means you will have to plan it now. To some success is traveling the world. To others, it is a clean bill of health. To many, it is financial freedom. You can have all of these too, but that means you have to work harder at it. More importantly, dream big and dream realistic.

Step 2, “Deciding how you are going to achieve it” means judging on everything that you wish to do, how are you going to achieve it? With the salary that you are receiving, the time you are putting in to work on your dreams, versus the size of your dreams, is it possible that your dream will come true? At this step, rescale your efforts versus your expectations.

Step 3, to decide your sacrifices, is to decide on the matters decided on Step 2. Will working 14 hours in a day help you achieve your goals? Does that mean you skip on watching TV, exercising or going for short holidays? Re-look at Step 1 and decide how much of time or effort you would have to put in to reach that goal.

At this juncture, you will realize no one likes to dream because dreaming about grand futures will result in us actually putting it to work and sacrificing other dreams. Trust in yourself. Trust that your dreams are worth the effort.

Step 4 means planning how hard you work at your current job. Most of the time we do not need a lottery strike to be able to achieve our dreams. Compare salaries with the ones that your boss is receiving. Ask yourself what skills must you have or roles you have to play to be your boss? Do you need to learn these skills? Make sure the entire year is filled with milestones to achieve this dream. Maybe in the first month you will take on more responsibilities from your boss. By mid year, you are the expert that your boss can rely on. By the next year, you convince your boss to make you the official champion for your department and a small change in your designation. Step 4 also involves living your dream right now. If your dream is to travel the world, do plan and save for something big in the future, but you can also do mini trips or picnics this week end. If your plan is to spend more time with your family, plan yearly quarterly and monthly, even weekly activities. Make sure that you practice your plan later.

Step 5 is the best part. Actually doing the activities you have set out to do. The danger is that we start walking the way and go astray or even stop walking it later. This step calls for us to trust in our plans and stand firm in our dreams. It might be easy to say, “My dreams are too difficult to achieve” and give up immediately. But recall the words of the wise, that everything can be achieved if you were diligent.

If you are feeling tired or doubtful if your dreams are ever going to come true, talk to friends about your dreams and tell them how hard your wish to be working. Find friends who will encourage you honestly to be around you. Avoid people who will discourage your efforts or laugh at your dreams.

One day your dreams will become reality. But only if you are brave enough to take the first step and walk until you have come to the end. Be brave to hang on in your journey. Be resilient.

All concepts above are either borrowed or rehashed. Picture by Daniel

Mental Shopping

2005-11-28T10:09:00.000+08:00

Ever shopped for things to decorate your home? Furniture and other decorative items can prove a hassle to hunt for, lots of thinking and may burn a hole on your bank card.

The solution is to do some “Mental Shopping”. Much like window shopping, you now shop with a pencil and a paper. Here is the step-by-step of how I did it:

1) Pretend that money is not the objective and you can spend it all on quality items or things that you would really like to have.
2) Write the name of the item, its dimensions and its price.
3) Shop for the next item.
4) Stop only when there is nothing more to "buy".

Note: A good place to do this activity is in your local “All-Under-One-Roof” furniture shop.

When you have finished, sit down with a calculator and a cup of tea and add up the entire list. What’s the total? If you think it is too expensive, perhaps you might want to rethink about some items on your list? Sum up the list again. In a perspective, this is the amount you have to earn or save to achieve your dream home. Perhaps you can set this amount as your target in the quest to achieve comfortable living?

This target is your cost ceiling or the “maximum you will need to spend”. Next, look for areas to trim. You may wish to search for similar but cheaper items elsewhere. It would mean that you will spend more time hunting and bargaining. Factor the time and effort as part of the cost of a dream home.

Mental Shopping helps you plan for your future and see in advance the dream home you will have one day. Happy living!!

picture posted by Daniel

Creativity is a Sign of Health

2005-11-18T15:24:00.000+08:00

A quote from Osho’s book, "Creativity - Unleashing the Forces Within" ISBN 0-312-20519-8

"Once pathology disappears, everybody becomes a creator. Let it be understood as deeply as possible: only ill people are destructive. The people who are healthy are creative. Creativity is a fragrance of real health. When a person is really healthy and whole, creativity comes naturally to him, the urge to create arises" – Osho (1931-1990)

Q: Does this mean that if you want to be creative, you have to be healthy and whole first?

Perhaps it could mean that one should take care of one’s emotional and physical well being so that creativity is at its peak. When we have total health, we will automatically be creative. Hmm… what do you think?

I wish you a healthy creative day!

How to Write Songs That Rhyme.

2005-11-15T17:36:00.000+08:00

Have you ever heard a song that does not rhyme?

It is when the ends of each line of the words don’t match. At most times, that makes a song sound weird. And if it happens throughout the song, you might grow dislike it too.

That’s not saying that some songwriters are weak in rhyming. Perhaps they just lack the resources in finding good rhymes. If you would read on, I will tell you the way out!

I have read that there are 2 types of rhymes, Perfect Rhymes and Half Rhymes.
For example, Sing and Ring are perfect rhymes, while Song and Warm are half rhymes.

Half rhymes work (depending on how you sing it) because once the word is spoken or sung, only the vowels (A, E, I, O, U) is heard. The ending of each word is left to fade away. Try to say (or sing) these two lines:

I’ll sing you a song,
It’ll make you feel warm.

May not look right, but sounds great. Not bad for a half rhyme. So why do I sometimes choose half rhymes over perfect rhymes?

For the simple reason that you cannot be rhyming Seven and Heaven or Desire and Fire and Higher for every songs! Using too much Perfect Rhymes is dead boring! To have more variety of words to use, try Half Rhymes.

Words that end with M may rhyme with ones that end with N. B ended words may match with Ds. Words that end with Y fit with Ws. Try to think of others.

And if you are still adamant in looking out for perfect rhymes, look out for a rhyming dictionary. I have found one on-line http://www.rhymezone.com/

Rhyming takes just a little bit more of your creativity and it can be as intense and as fun as building a jigsaw puzzle. You will try again and again to fit pieces of your rhymes together until you eventually finish your song. But it's truly satisfying. A masterpiece!

I wish you my kind of success with songs. If you want some advice with songwriting, feel free to drop a line in the comment box.

Remember, songs are not poems. If you want them to sound better, make sure it rhymes! Happy writing!

Packing for a Picnic

2005-11-11T19:44:00.000+08:00

The Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

What does one pack for a picnic?

Picnics are nice if you can wake up early enough on a weekend. But unnatural as that sounds, you will be well rewarded with all nature has to offer. Fresh air and soft grass... that's the life! Here is the checklist:

Insect repellent
Mat or Old Blanket
Old Newspaper (to put under the Mat or Blanket)
Mineral Water
Soft Drinks
Biscuits and a can of (easy opening) Tuna Chunks
Notebook and Pencil
Basket to carry it all in

Think of your time in your local park as a time to reflect and plan for future activities with your loved ones. What better time then now to jot down interesting things to do? Have a nice relaxing day!
pic posted by Daniel

Positive Words, Brighter Smiles!

2005-11-10T17:57:00.000+08:00

Does the world look gloomy or is that a personal view? For me, it has been a constant challenge to stop sounding negetive and dejected with life. Sure... life is not always rosy, and we have to accept that lemons do come our way now and then.

So, before I say or act in a moody fashion, I tell myself, "Just for now, just for today, can I think positively and openly? Say words that will gladden the hearts around me? Yes, I can."

The surrounding feelings will then suddenly appear lighter, softer and more pleasant.

Say positive words with its full meaning. Try it now!
Yes.
Beautiful.
Happy.
Special.
Lovely.
Truly.
Thank you.
It's good today.
See you later.

Being Flexible in Life

2005-11-09T17:21:00.000+08:00

Were there times when you caught yourself being stubborn and unshakable, only to find out later that relationships have been strained and your reputation shattered? If you have a bad day today, it is a good thing. Perhaps you have now learnt a valuable lesson that relationships are very fragile. Sure you have your reasons, but the person who has wronged you has clearly shown you the path to Enlightenment. So instead of "putting up a stubborn fight", try to do the opposite be flexible and adaptable. You will soon mature into greatness.

The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the turn - Anon

In fact, the hiccups that you face gives you new insights and ideas in life:

New ideas stir from every corner. They show up disguised innocently as interruptions, contradictions and embarrasing dilemmas. Beware of total strangers and friends alike who shower you with comfortable sameness, and remain open to those who make you uneasy, for they are the true messengers of the future. - Rob Lebow

Just for Today, Just for Now.

2005-11-08T11:11:00.000+08:00

Just for today, keep your promises and earn trust.

How to Meditate While Working
Note your primal duty for today.
Focus on what is the results you need to achieve and get it done.
Should your mind try to plan for other tasks, write it down, but go back to your primal duty for today.
In this way, you keep promises to yourself and earn self-trust.
And each day, just tell yourself, "Just for today, just for now".
May success grow in your heart.

It is a greater compliment to be trusted than to be loved. George Macdonald.

Impermanence

2005-11-07T21:41:00.000+08:00

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The Meaning of Metta

2005-11-07T15:58:00.000+08:00

Metta means loving kindness.

Metta as a meditation is a form of meditation which helps you build your concentration as you radiate loving kindness to all living beings in the universe