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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