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contemplation Vipassana while developing Metta
In order, therefore, to gain all the benefits that can be derived from this practise, let us develop metta as a fundamental. When developing metta by recitation, nama-rupa in the manner of vipassana should be contemplated as well. Thus while developing by recitation, contemplation and noting be done simultaneously, as follows:
By virtue of having heard these teachings on the Brahmavihara Bhavana Dhamma and of reciting and developing metta through Samatha Bhavana with the practice of Vipassana contemplation, may those noble audience be able to develop and exercise metta bhavana as far as possible and enhance the development of contemplating and noting the arising phenomena of rupa and nama towards attainment of magga-phala-nana and eventually reach Nibbana, the total extinction of all miserable conditions, in the shortest possible time. |