The Buddha's Speech on Friendliness:
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,
and modest,
Neither 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 away or near, here or there;
Whether existing or just about to come
into being;
Let every living being's mind be exultantly jubilant!
Let no
one ever kill or another one undo,
Nor ever harm anyone anywhere at all...
Let no one wish
for another any even minor evil,
neither from provocation, nor from revenge.
Thus, as a mother with her own life
Might guard her son, her only
baby child, thus
Should he maintain an
infinite friendliness
:-)
for every living being, in gentle sympathy
for
this entire universe, unlimited, endless and vast!
Above, below, and all around, unimpeded,
without any hatred, purged of all enmity!
Whether standing, walking, seated or lying down
while slumbering, he should always maintain such
Awareness
of gentle and benevolent kindness...
This is the
Divine Abiding
here, they say!
He that do not traffic with various views,
Perfected in seeing what is right
and wrong,
Purged of lust for sense-pleasures, he will
surely not come back here to any womb...
More on Friendliness (Mettā)
&
Friendship: (The Pāli root word is
Mitta = Friend)
Release_of_Resentment,
The_11_Advantages,
Loving-Kindness,
Cosmic_Goodness,
Unbounded_Mind,
Goodness_Galore,
Hey_Friend,
Advantageous_is_Friendship,
The-Effective_Saw,
Blazing_Goodwill,
Genuine_Goodwill,
Evaporated_Enemy,
Selfless Friendship
is Sweetest,
All Embracing Kindness,
Blazing
Friendliness,
Metta,
Buddha on Noble Friendship,
Good_Friendship,
United
in Harmony,
Goodwill
Encore,
United_in_Harmony,
The Good
Friend,
Blazing
& Bright,
Kalyanamitta,
Friendliness Frees,
Blazing_Friendliness,
Blazing_&_Bright,
Bon_Benevolence,
Good_Friendship,
The_Good_Friend,
Goodwill_Encore,
What_is_Wrong,
Universal_Friendliness,
Infinite_and_Divine_Classic,
Friendly_plus_Unselfish_equals_Honourable,
The_Grace_of_Goodwill,
Brahma vihaara,
Infinite_Friendliness,
Unique_Unity,
GoodWill_Again,
Calm_Kindness,
Released_by_GoodWill,
Unsurpassable_Radiance,
All-Embracing_Kindness,
Safe_Medicine,
Symbiotic_Sympathy,
Friendship_is_Universal!
Source:
Minor Readings and
the Illustrator
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