So I didn’t want to derail this thread , so I thought I’d ask, a follow up question to this: Kay: Is the Metta Sutta not among the earliest strata of texts then? [image] SC Next: Introduction to the Suttas ’Fraid so. It’s not found in other collections, and the metre is a little later than usu…

Sure, metta is one of the brahmaviharas, and is mentioned in plenty of passages. The Metta Sutta, though, is quite a distinctive composition.

Metta in Earliest Texts?

Aminah November 10, 2017, 9:54pm 8

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