mudita files: pet cat saves dog from coyotes

90 second video.

when pet dog was let out of house for a few minutes to go to the bathroom,

two coyotes attacked and chomped the small dog.

enter his friend the black cat to save the day.

mudita : rejoicing in skillful Dharmas

✅ one rejoices in virtuous, skillful Dharmas in oneself, in others, or both in oneself and others.
* virtuous skillful Dharma can be a bodily action, a verbal action, or mental action (if you're a mind reader you can rejoice in virtuous thoughts someone is thinking or about to think).
* The skillful Dharma can be from the past, present, or future.
* an action that deliberately avoids unskillful Dharmas, is also a skillful Dharma.
* the person one is observing performing virtuous Dharma is typically, but not necessarily experiencing joy. Example: someone does an action because "it's the right thing to do", but they feel pain instead of joy.
✅ Mudita is nearly synonymous or the immediate precursor to pamojja and pīti in the seven awakening factors 4😁 , and pīti in the first two jhānas. ^{(AN 5.26, AN 4.125 and AN 4.126)}
✅ Muditā can be done concurrently with sati , samādhi, 4 jhānas (4j🌕 ), in any posture ^{AN 8.63}. Alternatively, one could enter jhāna samādhi directly without using pīti, mudita, and abide with or without sukha.
✅ Mudita as a brahma-vihara 3.😊 , in the Buddha's EBT , is in some ways more versatile than pre-Buddhist Mudita, but in other ways more restrictive to bring it into conformity with the Buddha's Dharma that leads to Nirvana instead of just good rebirth in Brahma realm. ^{(see par for the Buddha )}
⛔ Mudita is not an indiscriminate rejoicing at someone experiencing joy, especially if they are joyful from performing unskillful Dharmas.

😊 muditā-sahagatena cetasā	😊 with a mind that rejoices in skillful Dharmas,
ekaṃ disaṃ pharitvā	pervade [that mind state] in the direction [of the first quarter, without limit].
viharati,	Live in this way.
tathā dutiyaṃ,	likewise (the) second [quarter],
tathā tatiyaṃ,	likewise (the) third [quarter],
tathā catutthaṃ;	likewise (the) fourth [quarter],
iti uddham-adho	Thus above,-below,
tiriyaṃ sabbadhi	across, everywhere,
Sabbat-tatāya	All-places,
sabbāvantaṃ lokaṃ	(to the) entire world
😊 muditā-sahagatena cetasā	😊 with a mind that rejoices in skillful Dharmas,
vipulena maha-g-gatena	vast, exalted,
appamāṇena a-verena	unlimited, without-vengeful-animosity,
A-byāpajjena pharitvā	without ill will, pervade [that mind state everywhere].
viharati,	Live in this way.