🟩 Quick Point Outline (glance‑only)

• Dipa Ma → Jack Kornfield Mindfulness is loving awareness; mindfulness is mettā.

• Rick Hanson — HEAL + Seven Factors Have a beneficial experience — notice something wholesome landing in the mind. Enrich it — let it grow fuller, warmer, more vivid. Absorb it — receive it; let it sink in. Link it (optional) — hold it alongside an old pattern without getting lost. Seven Factors of Installation:

  • Duration: stay with the good for a few breaths.

  • Intensity: let the feeling become a little stronger.

  • Multimodality: feel it in body, heart, and mind together.

  • Novelty: notice what’s fresh or surprising about it.

  • Personal relevance: remember why this moment matters to you.

  • Salience: highlight what stands out as meaningful.

  • Reward: sense what’s nourishing or pleasant about it.

• Vedic origins Brahmā’s four faces → divine qualities → pre‑Buddhist cosmology.

• Buddha’s radical reinterpretation Transforms divine attributes into human capacities; democratizes the “divine.”

• Gift language / Dana as ground The Buddha “gifted” a new understanding; generosity as the essence of the Dhamma.

• The process of us Brahmavihāras as natural expressions of an unobstructed heart.