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This is the Metta Sutta
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Taught by the Awakened One
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Buddha Gotama
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"This is what should be done
By one who is skilled in goodness,
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And who knows the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright,
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Straightforward and gentle in speech.
Humble and not conceited,
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Contented and easily satisfied
Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
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Peaceful and calm, and wise and skilful,
Not proud and demanding in nature.
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Let them not do the slightest thing
That the wise would later reprove.
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Wishing: in gladness and in safety,
May all beings be at ease.
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Whatever living beings there may be;
Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,
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The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,
The seen and the unseen,
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Those living near and far away,
Those born and to-be-born --
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May all beings be at ease!
Let none deceive another, or despise any being in any way
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Let none through anger or ill-will
Wish harm upon another.
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Even as a mother protects with her life
Her child, her only child,
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So with a boundless heart
Should one cherish all living beings;
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Radiating kindness over the entire world:
Spreading upwards to the skies,
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And downwards to the depths;
Outwards and limitless,
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Freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down,
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Free from drowsiness,
One should sustain this recollection.
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This is said to be the sublime abiding.
By not holding to fixed views,
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The true-hearted one, having clarity of vision,
Being freed from all sense desires,
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Is not born again into this world "
(Suttanipata I.8,
v. 143 - 152)
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