The practices the Buddha taught fit neatly into one of the three categories. The preceptse and the brahma-vihāra practices of loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity are ethical practices. The brahma-vihāra practices, especially loving-kindness (mettā) practice, can also generate concentration, as do mantra and visualization practices. But most everything else you think of when you hear the word meditation are wisdom practices—practices that are intended to help you “see the way things are” (or perhaps more accurately “what’s actually happening”). But the Buddha makes it
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