Mudita

Template:Short description Template:Italic title Template:Cetasika Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists Template:Infobox Buddhist term Muditā (Pāli and Sanskrit: मुदिता) is a dharmic concept of joy, particularly an especially sympathetic or vicarious joy—the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people's well-being.<ref name="salzberg">Template:Cite book</ref>

Application

Mudita meditation cultivates appreciative joy at the success and good fortune of others. The Buddha described this variety of meditation in this way:

Here, O, Monks, a disciple lets his mind pervade one quarter of the world with thoughts of unselfish joy, and so the second, and so the third, and so the fourth. And thus the whole wide world, above, below, around, everywhere and equally, he continues to pervade with a heart of unselfish joy, abundant, grown great, measureless, without hostility or ill-will. (DN 13) <ref>Template:Cite book</ref>{{#if:|

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Thus, mudita is also referred to as 'unselfish joy'.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The cultivation of virtues is manifested in the way that Buddhism is lived and practiced. Gavin Douglas notes that mudita and metta are 'associated with the act of sounding and hearing the bells' by the pagoda.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Mudita is traditionally regarded as the most difficult to cultivate of the four immeasurables (Template:Transliteration: also "four sublime attitudes").Template:Citation needed To show joy is to celebrate happiness and achievement in others even when we are facing tragedy ourselves.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Sayadaw U Pandita notes that mudita does not consist of false joy or envy. This means that deriving pleasure from the misfortune of others is not mudita, and neither are 'deceitful smirks' and 'false compliments'.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The "far enemies" of joy are jealousy (envy) and greed, mind-states in obvious opposition. Joy's "near enemy", the quality which superficially resembles joy but is in fact more subtly in opposition to it, is exhilaration, described as a grasping at pleasant experience out of a sense of insufficiency or lack.<ref>Template:Multiref2</ref>Template:Verify source

See also

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• Mindstream
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• Similar concepts in other cultures:
  • Compersion—in polyamory, positive feelings experienced by an individual when their intimate partner is enjoying another relationship
  • Template:Transliteration—A Hebrew term with a similar meaning
  • Template:Transliteration—A Yiddish term with a very similar meaning

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