Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Talk titled: "Selflessness and a Life of Love", given during the event "The Lovingkindness (Metta) Retreat". Held at Gaia House, Devon on 2010-08-10.

Topics covered: metta, practice: exchanging the happiness of self and other, bodhicitta, ethics/engagement, communication, skill with, malleability of perception, emptiness/insight: nothing independent of the way of looking, mystical openings and experiences, emotions / mind states: feedback loops, seeing as perfect

Teacher's note on suitability: through profound insight, inquiry and the practices of the heart, there is the possibility of a radically different relationship with our whole existence, liberating a fearlessness and unboundedness to our love.
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Original audio: dharmaseed.org/teacher/210/talk/9989
Transcript link: dl.airtable.com/.attachments/476695caf6aa94e1e7274c3549c8d8a4/3139a7f3/2010_0810SelflessnessandaLifeofLove.pdf