2020/10/03

希修 Metta(慈愛) Sutta to Generate Good Energies for Oneself and Others

 

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< Metta(慈愛) Sutta to Generate Good Energies for Oneself and Others >
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Be capable, upright, straightforward,
easy to instruct, gentle,
not conceited, content,
easy to support,
few duties, living lightly,
peaceful faculties,
masterful, modest,
no greed for supporters.
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Do not do the slightest thing
that the wise might censure later.
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May all beings
be well and peaceful.
Whatever beings
there may be,
weak or strong,
without exception,
long, large, middling,
short, subtle, blatant,
seen, unseen,
near, far,
born, seeking birth,
may all beings
be well and peaceful.
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Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
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As a mother would try
to protect her child,
her only child,
so should one cultivate
a limitless heart
with regard to all beings.
With good will
for the entire cosmos,
cultivate a limitless heart.
Above, below and all around,
unobstructed,
without enmity or hate.
Whether standing, walking,
sitting or lying down,
as long as one is alert,
one should be resolved
on this mindfulness.
This is called
a sublime abiding
here and now.
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Not taken with views,
virtuous,
consummate in vision,
having subdued desires
for sensory pleasures,
one never again
will lie in the womb.
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* The last sentence means that a person who lived as the above text describes will not be reborn next time in the human world (the lowest fifth among the 31 rebirth realms) or a lower plane.
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* The original meaning of 'mercy' in Buddhism is 'not to be angry, not to hate', and 'compassion' means 'to wish for someone's well-being or to want to help someone the way a physician approaches a patient'. For example, to a woman named Kisa Gotami crying over her child's death, the Buddha neither performed a feat of bringing the baby back to life nor asked his father, a monarch, for some support for the suffering lady. The Buddha did not join her in her sorrow or let her dump her distress on him either. Instead, he told her to go find a household in which no family member or relative has ever died and to borrow some mustard seeds from them, so that she could face and accept the reality that everyone has to die and that death is only a matter of sooner or later. This 'cold' rational attitude was the Buddha's compassion and mercy, nothing emotional or personal. The Khaggavisana Sutta also says, unless you find someone who is superior or at least equal to you in terms of wisdom, you should not entangle yourself in any kind of personal relationship but instead maintain solitude like a rhinoceros, just focusing on practice. The Buddha never said anything like you should stay personally close with everyone you run into in your life or you should make others around you happy. To enjoy 'happy' or 'comfortable' personal relationships may be a worldly 'wisdom', but not a recommendation by the Buddha, who taught that you should not chitchat but speak only what can 'benefit' other people the way a physician would benefit a patient. Charlotte Joko Beck, a Zen teacher, says that the opposite of self-centered is not others-centered but just centered.
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