- ཚད་མེད་པ་བཞི།
- ཚད་མེད་བཞི་པོ།
- ཚད་མེད་བཞི།
- tshad med pa bzhi
- tshad med bzhi
- tshad med bzhi po
- caturapramāṇa
- catuṣpramāṇa
- catvāryapramāṇāni
- caturpramāṇa
- catvāry apramāṇāni
- caturaprameya
- Term
The meditations on love (maitrī), compassion (karuṇā), joy (muditā), and equanimity (upekṣā), as well as the states of mind and qualities of being that result from their cultivation. They are also called the four abodes of Brahmā (caturbrahmavihāra).
In the Abhidharmakośa, Vasubandhu explains that they are called apramāṇa—meaning “infinite” or “limitless”—because they take limitless sentient beings as their object, and they generate limitless merit and results. Love is described as the wish that beings be happy, and it acts as an antidote to malice (vyāpāda). Compassion is described as the wish for beings to be free of suffering, and acts as an antidote to harmfulness (vihiṃsā). Joy refers to rejoicing in the happiness beings already have, and it acts as an antidote to dislike or aversion (arati) toward others’ success. Equanimity is considering all beings impartially, without distinctions, and it is the antidote to both attachment to pleasure and to malice (kāmarāgavyāpāda).
- four immeasurables
- ཚད་མེད་པ་བཞི།
- tshad med pa bzhi
- catvāryapramāṇāni
The four positive qualities of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, which may be radiated towards oneself and then immeasurable sentient beings.
- four immeasurables
- ཚད་མེད་བཞི།
- tshad med bzhi
- caturpramāṇa
- four immeasurables
- ཚད་མེད་བཞི།
- tshad med bzhi
- caturpramāṇa
- four immeasurables
- ཚད་མེད་བཞི།
- tshad med bzhi
- caturpramāṇa
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.
- four immeasurables
- ཚད་མེད་བཞི།
- tshad med bzhi
- caturpramāṇa
- four immeasurables
- ཚད་མེད་བཞི།
- tshad med bzhi
- catvāryapramāṇāni
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.
- four immeasurables
- ཚད་མེད་པ་བཞི།
- tshad med pa bzhi
- caturapramāṇa
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.
- four immeasurables
- ཚད་མེད་བཞི་པོ།
- tshad med bzhi po
- caturapramāṇa
- four immeasurables
- ཚད་མེད་པ་བཞི།
- tshad med pa bzhi
- catuṣpramāṇa
- four immeasurables
- ཚད་མེད་པ་བཞི།
- tshad med pa bzhi
- caturapramāṇa
The four positive qualities of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, which may be radiated towards oneself and then immeasurable sentient beings.
- four boundless states
- ཚད་མེད་པ་བཞི།
- tshad med pa bzhi
- catvāry apramāṇāni
Love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity; also often called the four immeasurables.
- four immeasurable attitudes
- ཚད་མེད་པ་བཞི།
- tshad med pa bzhi
- caturaprameya
These are (1) loving kindness, (2) compassion, (3) empathetic joy, and (4) equanimity. On training in the four immeasurable attitudes, see Padmakara Translation Group (1994): pp. 195–217.