This is the Metta Sutta,
An ancient Loing Kindness text.
If you could follow the Metta Sutta and all the instructions within it,
You would experience freedom from fear,
From hatred,
From anger,
From ill will.
I will recite it slowly so you can let it just sink in.
This is a good thing to repeat regularly to really get a sense of all it contains.
There are many nuances.
This is what should be done by one who is skilled in goodness and who seeks the path of peace.
Let them be able and upright,
Straightforward and gentle in speech,
Humble and not conceited.
Contented and easily satisfied,
Unburdened by duties and frugal in their ways.
Peaceful and calm and wise and skillful.
Not proud or demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later approve.
Wishing in gladness and in safety.
May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be,
Be they weak or strong,
Omitting none.
The great or the mighty,
The medium,
Short or small.
The seen and the unseen.
Those living near and far away.
Those born and yet 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 with her life protects her child,
Her only child,
So with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings.
Radiating kindness over the world.
Spreading upwards to the skies and downwards to the depths.
Outwards and unbounded.
Freed from hatred and ill will.
Whether standing or walking,
Sitting or lying down.
Free from drowsiness.
One should sustain this mindfulness.
It is said to be the sublime abiding.
By not holding on to fixed views,
The pure hearted one with clarity of vision.
Freed from all sense desires.
Is not born again into this world.
