MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="----=_NextPart_01C57591.2ED9F1B0" This document is a Single File Web Page, also known as a Web Archive file. If you are seeing this message, your browser or editor doesn't support Web Archive files. Please download a browser that supports Web Archive, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer. ------=_NextPart_01C57591.2ED9F1B0 Content-Location: file:///C:/C76C5EE1/MettaSutta.htm Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" The Buddha's Teaching on Loving-kindness (The Metta Sutta)

The Buddha’s Teaching on Loving-Kindness =

(Th= e Metta Sutra)

 

This is what should be done
By those who are skilled in goodness,
And who know the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright,
Straightforward and gentle in speech.
Humble and not conceited,
Contented, easily satisfied
and frugal in their ways.

 

Peaceful and calm, and wise and skilful,=
Not proud and demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing
That the wise would later reprove.
They should contemplate so:

In gladness and in safety,
May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,
The seen and the unseen,
Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be-born,
May all beings be at ease!

 

Let none deceive another,
Or despise any being in any state.
Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings:
Radiating kindness over the entire world
Spreading upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and unbounded,
Freed from hatred and ill-will.

 

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