Story 87 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Two more salient points about mettā. Mettā must be tempered by wisdom. There is a parable from India of a kind man who came upon a frog in the middle of a busy road. Concerned that the frog might be crushed under the wheels of a bullock cart and feeling uncomfortable leaving him to his fate, he gently picked him up and transferred him safely to the side of the road from whence he had come....
narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
3 minutes 32 seconds
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