How to teach metta in the sense of the early texts?

[Jose]

@Stacey

Not to presume, though I’m sure some may be aware of Bhante Vimalaramsi’s Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation, which I tend to see as Buddhist Cognitive Behavioural Training Meditation.

I believe he bases his meditation technique on the Anupada Sutta - MN 111 . You can find the English translation here:

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.111.than.html

It seems, though, that it is not an EBT sutta, according to this thread:

Some inauthentic passages in the Early Buddhist Texts

This article is collaboratively authored by Bhikkhu Sujato and Bhikkhu Brahmali. It is a work in progress. Those who come to the early Buddhist texts often ask how they are to know what passages can be regarded as authentic or inauthentic. By “authentic” we mean that texts that claim to be spoken by the Buddha or his direct disciples were in fact spoken by them. Authenticity does not imply literal word-for-word identity, but that the substance of the text, and much of the wording, is what it …

I hope this is helpful.