Metta is universal loving kindness - with no strings attached. It is kindness at its purest and strongest, a loving response to all life. The development of metta is a traditional meditation practice that can help us to transform our emotional life into one consistently based on love. Here, in the words of seven experienced meditators, is a wealth of instruction and advice to enable you to establish a metta meditation practice. Practicing metta can radically change our lives. Taking the meditation practice out of the meditation room, we begin to dissolve the barriers we have built around ourselves and open our hearts to the world.