Dozens of square windows puncture the corrugated steel shell of this barn-like Buddhist meditation centre in a rural part of the Netherlands by Dutch architects Bureau SLA (+ slideshow).

Text description provided by the architects. The Buddhist Meditation Centre Metta Vihara is located in Hengstdijk - a small village near the Belgian border - in a remotearea of the Netherlands.

There, the group commemorated the grand opening of the Tâm Từ Metta Vietnamese Buddhist temple – among the largest in the Bay Area — on the southern edge of Morgan Hill. The event ...

Metta meditation is a type of Buddhist meditation. In Pali — a language that’s closely related to Sanskrit and spoken in northern India — “metta” means positive energy and kindness ...

Metta close mettaThe Buddhist term for loving kindness. A pure love which is neither grasping nor possessive. means loving kindness. Buddhists attempt to show loving kindness towards others and ...

And that understanding makes their social interactions and close relationships stronger. Guiding us today’s metta practice is Anushka Fernandopulle. Anushka is a meditation teacher and mindful ...