What should the clever one
advantageously do:
To attain This State called Peace, is
this:
He should be intelligent, straight, honest,
Humble, gentle and never proud,
Contented, and easy to support,
Not busy, careful, and silenced…
In abilities & senses, cautious, & modest,
Not flattering families nor be demanding.
He should not do even a minor trifle at all,
That other wise men might criticize.
Then he should think:
May all beings be joyous and safe!
Let every creature's mind rejoice.
Whatever breathing beings there are,
No matter whether feeble or firm,
With none excepted, whether long;
Tall, big, medium, short or small;
Whether seen or unseen, visible or not;
Whether living far or near, here or there;
Whether existing or just about to become;
Let every living being's mind be jubilant!!!
Let none kill or another one undo,
Nor harm anyone anywhere at all...
Let none wish another any ill,
neither from provocation nor from revenge.
Thus, as a mother with her own life
Might guard her son, her only child, thus
Should he maintain an
infinite friendliness;
for every living being, in sympathy
for this
entire universe, unlimited, endless & vast!
Above, below, and all around, unimpeded,
without any hatred, without any enemies!
Whether standing, walking, seated or
lying down while slumbering, he should always
maintain such
Awareness of gentle kindness...
This is the Divine Abiding here, they say.
He that do not traffic with various views,
Perfected in seeing what is right & wrong,
Purged of lust for sense-pleasures, he will
surely not come back here to any womb...
Source:
Minor Readings and
the Illustrator
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