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The brahmavihārā (sublime attitudes, lit. "abodes of Brahma") is a series of four Buddhist virtues and the meditation practices made to cultivate them. They are also known as the four immeasurables (Pāli: appamaññā) or four infinite minds (Chinese: 四無量心). The brahmavihārā are:

loving-kindness or benevolence (mettā) compassion (karuṇā) empathetic joy (muditā) equanimity (upekkhā)

According to the Metta Sutta, cultivation of the four immeasurables has the power to cause the practitioner to be reborn into a "Brahma realm" (Pāli: Brahmaloka).

From Brahmavihara on Wikipedia

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Title	Speaker	Date
Dogen's Zazengi (Pt. 2) Serial: BZ-00070B One-Day Sitting Zazengi, Concentration, Samadhi, Equanimity, Hate, Ego, Big Mind, Daily Life, Posture...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 28 1999 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen’s Guidelines for Studying the Way Serial: BZ-00838 Class 3 of 4 Happiness, Intimacy, Equanimity, New Year, Obstacles, Don't Know Mind, Precepts...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Nov 12 1998 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Shodoka:Song of Enlightenment (Pt.1) Serial: BZ-00436B Sesshin Day 1 Shodoka, Enlightenment, Buddha Nature, Happiness, Karma, Equanimity, Subject-and-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 05 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Building a Sustainable Future Equanimity, Gratitude, Hate, Interdependence, Karma	Joanna Macy	Aug 08 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Constancy Serial: BZ-00339A Saturday Lecture Big Mind, Composure, Continuous Practice, Daily Life, Equanimity, Happiness, Patience...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 03 1998 Berkeley Zen Center
Enduring Love in Zen Practice Lovingkindness, Equanimity	Tenshin Reb Anderson	1998
Awakening Through Oneness Practice Equanimity, Samadhi, Doubt	Tenshin Reb Anderson	Nov 02 1997
Zazengi: Mindfulness, Concentration, Equanimity Serial: BZ-00360A One-Day Sitting Zazengi, Concentration, Equanimity, Concentration, Subject-and-Object, Posture,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 16 1997 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen's Zazengi Serial: BZ-00359B Saturday Lecture Zazengi, Buddha Ancestors, Concentration, Duality, Equanimity, Lotus Sutra, Non-...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 15 1997 Berkeley Zen Center
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00808A Rohatsu Day 4 Concentration, Buddha Nature, Hui-neng, Continuous Practice, Teacher-and-Student, Big...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 05 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00784B Rohatsu Day 3 Dragons, Daily Life, Equanimity, Samadhi, Hindrances, Separation, Posture, Emotions...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 04 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Family Practice Serial: BZ-00791B Saturday Lecture Family Practice, Equanimity, Family Practice, Happiness, Lay Practice, Non-duality,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 28 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Four Boundless Abodes Serial: BZ-00798B Saturday Lecture Brahmaviharas, Equanimity, Emotions, Hui-neng, Hindrances, Happiness, Patience,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 20 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Setting the Tone for Practice Period Serial: BZ-00805B Saturday Lecture Practice Period, Practice Period, Monastic Practice, Family Practice, Daily Life,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 05 1996 Berkeley Zen Center
Vimalakirti Sutra Serial: BZ-00246 Class 3 of 5 Current Events, Dependent Origination, Equanimity, Liberation, Lotus Sutra, Manjushri...	Maylie Scott	Mar 14 1996 3 Berkeley Zen Center
The Four Brahmaviharas Equanimity, Patience, Daily Life, Posture, Intimacy, Happiness, Mahayana	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 16 1995 Berkeley Zen Center
Chiji Shingi and Metta Sutta: Metta Sutta Serial: BZ-00763 Class 8 of 10 Equanimity, Forgiveness, Eight Aspects, Continuous Practice, Manjushri, Posture,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 14 1995 8 Tassajara
Title Unknown Serial: BZ-00741 Lecture Concentration, Daily Life, Equanimity, Gratitude, Mahayana, Practice Period, Samadhi...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 01 1995 Tassajara
Mumonkan Case #35 Happiness, Blue Cliff Record, Separation, Interview, Buddha Nature, Equanimity,...	Denkei Raul Moncayo	Feb 25 1995 Berkeley Zen Center
Happiness and Love Serial: BZ-00948B Saturday Lecture Happiness, New Year, Happiness, Liberation, Equanimity, Buddha Mind, Ego, Fasting,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 07 1995 Berkeley Zen Center
Heart Sutra: Setting the Scene Serial: BZ-00952B Skandas and Emptiness, Rohatsu Day 4 Heart Sutra, Skandhas, Emptiness, Heart Sutra, Four Noble Truths, Non-duality,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Dec 07 1994 Berkeley Zen Center
Serial 00951, Side B Heart Sutra, Buddha Nature, Four Noble Truths, Non-duality, Platform Sutra, Subject-...		Dec 07 1994
Bendowa I: Bendowa and Thoughts Serial: BZ-00953A Rohatsu Day 1 Uchiyama, Lotus Sutra, Samadhi, Posture, Mahayana, Equanimity, Bowing, Concentration...	Maylie Scott	Dec 04 1994 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan Case #46: The Mumonkan and Social Action Serial: BZ-00957B Lecture War, Teacher-and-Student, Birth-and-Death, Demons, Equanimity, Separation, Hate...	Lee DeBarros	Oct 22 1994 Berkeley Zen Center
Embracing Mindfulness Beyond the Self Lovingkindness, Equanimity, Skandhas, Emotions	Edward Espe Brown	Oct 02 1994
Continuous and Discontinuous Time Serial: BZ-00935B Developing Character, Saturday Lecture Continuous Practice, Daily Life, Ego, Equanimity, Precepts, Samadhi, Separation...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 10 1994 Berkeley Zen Center
Four Foundations of Mindfulness #3 Serial: BZ-00944 Sesshin Day 3 Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Equanimity, Subject-and-Object, Daily Life,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 10 1994 Berkeley Zen Center
Precepts Serial: BZ-00961A Saturday Lecture Precepts, Bodhisattva Ceremony, Equanimity, Interdependence, Ordination, Precepts,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 23 1994 Berkeley Zen Center
Tozan's Poem Serial: BZ-00962B No Gap; Don't Objectify, Saturday Lecture Tozan, Subject-and-Object, Separation, Practice Period, Subject-and-Object, Book of...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Apr 16 1994 Berkeley Zen Center
We Are Like Water Seeking the Lowest Place Serial: BZ-00737 Taking Joy in Impermanence, Sesshin Day 7 Impermanence, Demons, Ego, Equanimity, Funeral, Impermanence, Interdependence,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Mar 30 1994
Transmission of Light: The 38th Ancestor Seigen Gyoshi; Not Getting Caught in Stages Serial: BZ-00666B Saturday Lecture Seigen Gyoshi, Liberation, Buddha Nature, Bodhidharma, Current Events, Don't...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	May 22 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Beginner’s Mind Serial: BZ-00647A Beginners' Sitting Conversation, Posture, Zazen Mind, Monkey Mind, Zoom, Equanimity, Interview	Fran Tribe	Jan 16 1993 Berkeley Zen Center
Living Mindfully Beyond Emotions Emotions, Buddha Nature, Sanctuary, Equanimity	Edward Espe Brown	Sep 20 1992
Living Zen: Everyday Enlightenment Emotions, Buddha Nature, Sanctuary, Equanimity	Edward Espe Brown	Sep 20 1992
Mumonkan, Case #1: Joshu’s Mu and the Importance and Significance of the Lotus Sutra Serial: BZ-00633A Lecture Lotus Sutra, Buddha Nature, Four Noble Truths, Three Treasures, Book of Serenity,...	Lee DeBarros	Jul 25 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Is Buddha Happy? Harmony, Universal Logic Serial: BZ-00632A Communion and Communication cont., Saturday Lecture Buddha Mind, Composure, Demons, Ego, Equanimity, Happiness, Politics, Sangha...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 18 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Criticism in the Realm of Absolute and Relative Serial: BZ-00631A Sesshin Day 5 Absolute-and-Relative, Absolute-and-Relative, Big Mind, Emotions, Ego, Equanimity,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 28 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Mumonkan: Case #19 Serial: BZ-00711A Ordinary Mind Is the Way, Saturday Lecture Ordinary Mind, MM-19, Doubt, Equanimity, Hate, Non-duality, Ordinary Mind, Samadhi...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 07 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Continuous Zazen Serial: BZ-00684B Saturday Lecture Zazen, Priest, Daily Life, Intimacy, Liberation, Equanimity, Concentration, Tassajara...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Feb 01 1992 Berkeley Zen Center
Metta Sutta Serial: BZ-00715A Lecture Mahayana, Equanimity, Lovingkindness, Happiness, Hate	Hozan Alan Senauke	Sep 07 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Zen and Excitement Serial: BZ-00968B Saturday Lecture Suzuki Roshi, Daily Life, Tassajara, Priest, Equanimity, Concentration	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jul 06 1991 Berkeley Zen Center
Dogen’s “Zenki”: Undivided Activity; Zenki and Shoji Serial: BZ-00275 Class 3 of 3 Birth-and-Death, Equanimity, Separation, Teacher-and-Student, Fasting, Funeral...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 13 1991 3 Berkeley Zen Center
Avatamsaka Sutra Serial: BZ-00259 Class 2 of 5 Manjushri, Five Ranks, Dragons, Equanimity, Birth-and-Death, Concentration	Zoketsu Norman Fischer	Nov 01 1990 2 Berkeley Zen Center
Segaki Serial: BZ-00496A Saturday Lecture Sejiki, Six Realms, Liberation, Demons, Nirvana, Equanimity, Karma, Causation...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Oct 27 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Different Ways of Looking at the Same Thing Serial: BZ-00388B Sesshin Day 2 Hate, Concentration, Duality, Non-duality, Samadhi, Obstacles, Equanimity, Patience,...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Sep 02 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Blue Cliff Record: Case #2 Serial: BZ-00514A The True Way Is Not Difficult, Sesshin Day 2 BCR-2, Hate, Duality, Hsin Hsin Ming, Dragons, Absolute-and-Relative, Equanimity...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 21 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
Eulogy for Katagiri Roshi Serial: BZ-00509B Lecture Dharma Transmission, Equanimity, Lotus Sutra, Monastic Practice, Patience,...	Dairyu Michael Wenger	Apr 14 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
How to Start the New Year Serial: BZ-00502B Saturday Lecture New Year, Concentration, Equanimity, Daily Life, New Year, Hui-neng, Samadhi, War...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jan 06 1990 Berkeley Zen Center
The Four Marks of Conditioned Existence Serial: BZ-00383B Lecture Equanimity, Heart Sutra, Karma, Lotus Sutra, Subject-and-Object, Hate, Impermanence,...	Bob Poulsen	Sep 16 1989 Berkeley Zen Center
What Is It? Serial: BZ-00376B Sesshin Day 2 Practice Period, Absolute-and-Relative, Subject-and-Object, Equanimity, War, Lay...	Sojun Mel Weitsman	Jun 22 1989 Berkeley Zen Center

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