Buddhist Prayer Types
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These pages are designed to help visitors understand several Buddhist prayer and reflection directions with respect, clarity, and modern language. They are not scripture, not liturgical text, and not an authoritative presentation of formal sacred material.
Why these prayer type pages matter
Buddhist devotional and reflective life can move through many different inner lanes: loving-kindness, compassion, mindfulness, equanimity, release, forgiveness, dedication, or refuge. Not every prayer or reflection begins from the same emotional or spiritual place.
These pages help a visitor understand the tone and direction of the prayer type they are entering, so the experience feels more grounded, more understandable, and less generic.
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Metta (Loving Kindness)
Metta is a loving-kindness prayer direction centered on goodwill, warmth, gentleness, and the sincere wish for well-being.
Karuna (Compassion)
Karuna is a compassion-centered prayer direction shaped by mercy, tenderness, and responsiveness to suffering.
Mindfulness Reflection
Mindfulness Reflection is a prayer direction of attentive awareness, inward honesty, and present-moment steadiness.
Equanimity Practice
Equanimity Practice is a prayer direction centered on steadiness, balance, patience, and freedom from emotional overthrow.
Letting Go / Release
Letting Go / Release is a prayer direction focused on loosening fear, burden, attachment, resentment, or mental overgripping.
Forgiveness Reflection
Forgiveness Reflection is a prayer direction of honesty, softening, mercy, and the willingness to release bitterness and move toward repair.
Dedication of Merit
Dedication of Merit is a prayer direction of offering, goodwill, and extending the fruits of practice beyond oneself toward others.
Refuge / Protection
Refuge / Protection is a prayer direction of shelter, steadiness, safety, trust, and turning toward what grounds and protects the heart.