Meta is the wish that all beings including yourself will achieve happiness due to the skillfulness of your action.

So Meta is not wishing that yourself or somebody else will just be rewarded with luxury riches and power or material success,

it's actually a wish that each of us would act in a skillful, harmless, beneficial, altruistic

kind way so that we will live in minds that are peaceful.

And indeed, we can learn from modern neuroscience and all the work of neuroscientists who've demonstrated

that the human brain actually does have altruistic circuits which reward us for

acting in ways that benefit the tribe that we're connected to because if you think

back over the course of human history, those of us that acted in ways that were altruistic,

benefited those to whom we were connected, those beings, those humans would have survived, passed on their genes.

And so, as we've evolved over the human endeavor on this planet,

those, we basically hardwired the brain to feel better when we act in ways that are not causing harm.

When we cause harm to others we feel either shame or the mind becomes riddled with self-justification to justify our selfishness,

so it's far easier to simply act in ways that are benevolent.

And so the Buddha is wish for goodwill is simply reminding

ourselves that it's very peaceful if our overriding attitude is to wish that all of us will act in kind, skillful ways so that

we will achieve peace.

So when goodwill encounters beings that are suffering, it naturally responds with compassion.

Compassion is the second fuel of the Brahma Vajara's.

Compassion is the desire to see other people's unskillfulness to stop, a wish to see people

act in a way that will increase their chances of lasting peace and happiness.

It's also compassion is largely what motivated the Buddha to leave

the bliss of his Enlightenment and to go around to Schlecht. He Schlecht about teaching the Dorma when he could have just sat there under the Bodhi

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