ཚད་མེད་པ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms

The four positive qualities of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, which may be radiated towards oneself and then immeasurable sentient beings.

Love, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

These are (1) loving kindness, (2) compassion, (3) joy, and (4) equanimity.

These are four attitudes and qualities to be cultivated, namely: (1) loving kindness, (2) compassion, (3) empathetic joy, and (4) equanimity. Also known as the four abodes of Brahmā.

Friendliness, compassion, equanimity, and joy.

Immeasurable states, otherwise known as “pure abodes” (brahmā­vihāra). Immeasurable love arises from the wish for all living beings to have happiness and the cause of happiness. Immeasurable compassion arises from the wish for all living beings to be free from suffering and its cause. Immeasurable joy arises from the wish that living beings not be sundered from the supreme happiness of liberation. And immeasurable impartiality arises from the wish that the preceding‍—love, compassion, and joy‍—should apply equally to all living beings, without attachment to friend or hatred for enemy.

The four positive qualities of loving kindness (byams pa, maitrī), compassion (snying rje, karuṇā), sympathetic joy (dga’ ba, muditā), and equanimity (btang snyoms, upekṣā), which may be radiated towards oneself and then immeasurable sentient beings.

Loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.

The four positive qualities of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, which may be radiated towards oneself and then immeasurable sentient beings.

Love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity; also often called the four immeasurables.

As mentioned in UT22084-031-002-172, these are (1) loving kindness, (2) compassion, (3) empathetic joy, and (4) equanimity. On training in the four immeasurable aspirations, see Padmakara Translation Group (1994): 195–217.