Loving-kindness

Loving-kindness may refer to chesed, a term found in the Hebrew Bible, or maitrī or mettā, a term used in Buddhism. Quotes Chesed Chesed Chesed is a covenantal love, a profound and committed and long-term love, a kind love—but not a romantic love. … This kind of love so confounded Miles Coverdale, a sixteenth-century Bible translator in England, that as he worked to translate the Hebrew Scriptures into English, he felt compelled to coin a new word to describe it: loving-kindness. Rachel Held Evans: Wholehearted Faith, ch. 5, "Thick Skin, Tender Heart". HarperCollins (2021). 978-0-06-289447-2. Maitrī Maitrī The Pali term, mettā, is derived from a word for friendship, and therefore can be understood as a deep friendship with life. This should not imply that mettā is necessarily easy. Deep friendship implies being present, connected, and caring even through difficult times. Shaila Catherine: Wisdom Wide and Deep: A Practical Handbook for Mastering Jhana and Vipassana, ch. 8, "Boundless Heart: Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity". Wisdom Publications (2011). 978-0-86171-623-4. External links loving-kindness Category:Disambiguation pages