Schools > Students > Ages 15-16 > Scripture and authority > Metta SuttaThe Metta Sutta/Sermon on Loving-Kindness
This is what should be done
By those skilled in goodness
Who know the place of peace:
Let them be able and upright,
Sraightforward 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 skilful,
Not proud or demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing
that the wise would later reprove.
Wishing, in gladness and in safety,
may all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings there may be;
And whether they be 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 living beings;
Radiating kindness over the entire world;
Spreading upward to the skies
And downward to the depth,
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 the sublime abiding.
By not holding to fixed views,
The pure-hearted, having clarity of vision
Being freed from all sense desires, is not born again to this world.