FOREST OF FEAR
When her husband was diagnosed with cancer, ALLYSON PIMENTEL was terrified. The Karaniya Metta Sutta helped her find ease.
When was the first time I encountered the Buddha’s sermon on loving-kindness, the Karaniya Metta Sutta?
Was it in the first practitioners’ course I took as a budding student of the dharma two and a half decades ago? Was it when it was recited during a dharma talk on the metta retreat I attended some years later? Was it just now, as I scanned the sutta before settling in front
