Loving Kindness Meditation Society

03/19/2026

"Does your family need a moment to just... breathe? 🕊️✨

Life moves fast, and the world can feel a little noisy sometimes. That’s why we’ve created a special place for you to find your center.

Join Instructor Bhante Devananda, The Metta Monk, every Thursday at 6:00 PM ET for a journey into Loving Kindness. This is more than a class—it’s a spiritual sanctuary for all ages and all walks of life. Whether you are 5 or 95, your heart has a home here.

📍 Join us Onsite: 301 W. Butler Street, Bryan, Ohio
💻 Join us Online: Live on Facebook & YouTube

Calling our neighbors in Bryan, Defiance, Bowling Green, and Toledo: Come as you are. This practice is 100% free and open to everyone. Let's grow more kindness together.

Serving Bryan, Toledo, Bowling Green, and Defiance, our community is a spiritual sanctuary for all walks of life. Join us onsite at 301 W. Butler Street or stream live . This 100% free practice of Loving Kindness (Metta) helps us cultivate compassion and calm. All ages are welcome! Come find your peace with us.

03/19/2026

Ten years ago, after a meditation session led by Bhante Devananda in a correctional facility, we received this letter.

On that day, a few friends were assigned to serve food to Bhante and given a rare opportunity to taste the act of service, to give, and to practice loving-kindness (mettā) from within.

What seemed like a simple act became something much deeper, a seed of compassion planted in the heart.

Today, we remember this friend with a heart full of kindness. Wherever you are now, may you be free, may you be safe, and may your life be guided by mettā (loving-kindness) and paññā (wisdom).

Even in the most difficult places, the light of Dhamma can arise. True transformation begins within.

Sabbe sattā bhavantu sukhitattā
May all beings be happy.

Sabbe sattā averā hontu
May all beings be free from enmity.

Sabbe sattā abyāpajjhā hontu
May all beings be free from harm.

Sabbe sattā anīghā hontu
May all beings live with ease.

Take a moment today to practice kindness, someone’s life may be changed by it.

Bhante,
Thank you so much for coming to CIF late last year. I was the person who filled your tray with food during lunch! I really enjoyed your directed loving kindness meditation as well as your chanting, you have a beautiful voice! We use your CD of chanting during our meditation. I hope that you can come again sometimes, and I plan to visit the temple when I get out in 2012. Your visit was one of the most moving experience in my life! I know the Dhamma faith is the right path for me!

03/19/2026

Breathe In… Peace
Breathe Out… Kindness
Meditation with Venerable Monk every Thursday 7 pm

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03/17/2026

“Does your family need a moment to just... breathe? 🕊️✨
Life moves fast, and the world can feel a little noisy sometimes. That’s why we’ve created a special place for you to find your center.

All are welcome every Thursday at 6:00 PM ET for a journey into Loving Kindness. This is more than a class—it’s a spiritual sanctuary for all ages and all walks of life. Whether you are 5 or 95, your heart has a home here.

📍 Join us Onsite: 301 W. Butler Street, Bryan, Ohio
💻 Join us Online: Live on Facebook & YouTube

Calling our neighbors in Bryan, Defiance, Bowling Green, and Toledo: Come as you are. This practice is 100% free and open to everyone. Let’s grow more kindness together.

Serving Bryan, Toledo, Bowling Green, and Defiance, our community is a spiritual sanctuary for all walks of life. Join us onsite at 301 W. Butler Street or stream live . This 100% free practice of Loving Kindness (Metta) helps us cultivate compassion and calm.

All walks of life, all ages, and all perspectives are warmly welcomed. Come as you are, regardless of your background or experience level.

03/17/2026

“Does your family need a moment to just... breathe? 🕊️✨
Life moves fast, and the world can feel a little noisy sometimes. That’s why we’ve created a special place for you to find your center.

All are welcome every Thursday at 6:00 PM ET for a journey into Loving Kindness. This is more than a class—it’s a spiritual sanctuary for all ages and all walks of life. Whether you are 5 or 95, your heart has a home here.

📍 Join us Onsite: 301 W. Butler Street, Bryan, Ohio
💻 Join us Online: Live on Facebook & YouTube

Calling our neighbors in Bryan, Defiance, Bowling Green, and Toledo: Come as you are. This practice is 100% free and open to everyone. Let’s grow more kindness together.

Serving Bryan, Toledo, Bowling Green, and Defiance, our community is a spiritual sanctuary for all walks of life. Join us onsite at 301 W. Butler Street or stream live . This 100% free practice of Loving Kindness (Metta) helps us cultivate compassion and calm.

All walks of life, all ages, and all perspectives are warmly welcomed. Come as you are, regardless of your background or experience level.

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Memorial Service in Loving Memory of�Mr. Raksh*tha Dissanayake

May he attain supreme bliss of Nibbana

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Everyone is welcome to join us for peaceful meditation and traditional chanting. Our sanctuaries are open for anyone wishing to cultivate mindfulness, inner calm, and spiritual growth. Come and smile with the monks.

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📍 Loving Kindness Meditation Society | Every Thursday @ 6:00 PM ET
Location: 301 W Butler St, Bryan, OH

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