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Research: AUNG,
Listed in Issue 100
Abstract
AUNG, Alberta Medical Clinic, 9904 106 Street, Edmonton, AB T5K 1C4, Canada, proposes that loving kindness is the essential Buddhist contribution to primary care. Abstract: Loving kindness (metta), a traditional Buddhist concept, implies acting with compassion towards all living beings, with an awareness and appreciation of the natural world. The giving of metta has the potential to enhance modern primary health care. Metta must be given with selflessness (saydana), compassion (karuna), and sympathetic joy (mudita). The Buddhist system features several techniques, such as the Noble Eight-Fold-Path and the metta meditations, to keep physicians moving towards metta. One does not have to be a Buddhist to practise metta, or more humane medicine, and the notion of tender loving care in spreading in biomedical circles.
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References
Aung SKH. Loving kindness: the essential Buddhist contribution of primary care. Humane Health Care International 12 (2): E12, Apr 1996.
