Once we have found this treasure, there is no point in keeping it to ourselves. The ground of love is limitless. We don’t have to be stingy about it. We get caught up in scarcity about it, but it’s not a commodity to be traded. There is an endless supply of love, and so we can endlessly give it away. One way to tap into this bountiful harvest of expressive love is through the Buddhist practice of metta. Metta is a practice in which we consciously evoke a boundless warmhearted feeling. Through the recitation of phrases such as “May all beings everywhere be happy and free,” we gradually
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