Mettā In Action

We are a group of people dedicated to helping the poor and needy in Burma

Our activities started in 2007, when the economic situation deteriorated, creating unbearable hardships for many people throughout the country. After Cyclone Nargis swept over the southern part of Burma in May 2008, we stepped up our efforts by providing food, clothing, shelter, and medical care to those in need.

While we are open to offering wherever there is an obvious need, we have a number of projects where we provide ongoing support to many Burmese nuns, monks, and lay people. We are able to extend this much needed support thanks to the generous donations from people all around the world.

To see updates about our activities, please visit our website at:

www.mettainaction.org

If you wish to contact us, please use these email addresses:

mettainaction@gmail.com (for English speakers)

mettainaction.ch@gmail.com (for German and English speakers)

Mettā In Action

Ariya Baumann (Metta Chants)

Metta Chants

The longer I use metta chants as part of my practice the more I see and experience the invaluable benefit of these chants: they open and gladden the heart, they sooth and calm an agitated mind, they energize an inert and dull mind, they weaken aversion and ill will, they are a source of inspiration, and they make the mind easily concentrated.

Metta chants can also be used in daily life to keep the mind in a benevolent, kind, loving, and positive state.

1) Metta Sutta (English)

2) The Four Aspirations (Pali)

3) Metta Chant (Pali)

4) Metta-Karuna-Mudita-Upekkha (2 Melodies)

5) The Four Boundless States (Pali)

6) Metta In Deed, Speech, and Thought

7) Friede (Swiss German)

8) Loka Samasta (Sanskrit)

9) Loka Samasta (English-Sanskrit)

Ariya Baumann, Talks & Chants BMIMC 2016

Ariya Baumann, Talks & Chants BMIMC 2016

These talks were given during the one-month retreat at the Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre near Sydney, Australia, in May 2016.

During the first week the yogis practised metta meditation only, during the remaining three weeks they practised vipassana meditation with a daily session of metta meditation.

Throughout the retreat metta chants were part of the daily practice as a supportive element for the development of a benevolent and kind attitude towards others and oneself as well as for the development of liberating wisdom.

1) Catching the Spirit of Metta (BMIMC 2016)

2) Metta Is a Relational Practice (BMIMC 2016)

3) Metta In Deed, Speech, and Thoughts (BMIMC 2016)

4) Instructions for Vipassana Meditation (BMIMC 2016)

5) Sati - What Is Mindfulness (BMIMC 2016)

6) Thoughts (BMIMC 2016)

7 ) Walking Meditation - Why Should We Do It (BMIMC 2016)

8) Realize-Abandon-Experience-Develop, Part I (BMIMC 2016)

9) Realize-Abandon-Experience-Develop, Part II (BMIMC 2016)

10) Diligence-Apamada (BMIMC 2016)

11) Vesak Talk (BMIMC 2016)

12) The Defilements & the Three Trainings, Part I (BMIMC 2016)

13) The Defilements & the Three Trainings, Part II (BMIMC 2016)

14) Freedom (BMIMC 2016)

15) Sila & Metta, Two Approaches - One Goal (BMIMC 2016)

Metta Chants (BMIMC 2016)

Texts for Metta Chants at BMIMC 2016