Psalms 36:10 Meaning Oh Continue Your Loving Kindness to Those

Mettā: Loving kindness Mettā is the wish that others be well, held without conditions. Asking for it to continue treats it as a spring rather than a single gift, water that keeps feeding the stream long after the rain has passed. The fountain of life named a line earlier is this same water, and the whole request is that the flow not be shut off.

Brahmavihāra: Divine abiding Brahmavihāra names the kindly states as places a mind lives in, dwellings with a floor and a roof. "Continue" asks for exactly that: keep living there. A family that stays in the same house year after year is doing with a house what this prayer wants done with loving kindness, and the abiding asked of God here is one a person can be trained to settle into.

Aveccappasāda: Confidence that has been tested Aveccappasāda is trust confirmed by having seen a thing oneself. Knowing someone, in this sense, is the difference between hearing about a road and walking it, and it is the walkers who are being spoken for. That is why the asking comes out so plain and unhedged; anyone who has drunk from the fountain has stopped arguing about whether there is water.

Ujupaṭipanna: Practicing straight Ujupaṭipanna means going straight, with no bend in the practice. Upright in heart is that same straightness turned inward, the inside matching the outside, and it lands hard after four verses of men who flatter themselves and plot mischief on their beds. A bent nail can be hammered all day and go nowhere; a straight one takes the blow and sinks.

Dhamma: The way things are, and the teaching of it Dhamma is both the truth and the instruction that points at it. There is an old line that the Dhamma guards whoever lives by it, which is the same motion as righteousness coming to the upright in heart: what a person carries turns around and carries them. An umbrella is dead weight in your hand until the rain starts.