The Buddha's Words on Loving-Kindness (Metta Sutra)
This is what should be done
by those who are skilled in goodness,
and those who know the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright,
straightforward and gentle in speech.
Humble and not conceited,
contented and easily satisfied,
unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways.
Peaceful and calm, and wise and skillful,
not proud and demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing
that the wise would later reprove.
Wishing: in gladness and 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 beings;
radiating kindness over the entire world:
spreading upward to the skies,
and downward to the depths,
outward and unbounded,
freed from hatred and ill-will.
Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down.
Free from drowsiness,
one should sustain this recollection.
This is said to be sublime abiding.
By not holding to fixed veins,
the pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision,
being freed from all sense desires,
is not born again into this world.
