A fellow Dharma practitioner and I were having breakfast together recently, and during the discussion we decided to nail down what the Buddhist equivalent of a “fatwa” would be. We decided that it would be a “metwa” — i.e., “metta” + “fatwa”. This would be an all-stops out attack on a person by sitting there and absolutely flooding that person with waves of lovingkindness and compassion.
So watch out: get out of line and you just might be the target of a Metwa! We’ll all sit there and absolutely stun you with a roiling tempest of lovingkindness! Boy, will you be *sorry*……………