This is what should be done by one who is skilled in goodness,
and who knows the path of peace:
Let them be able and upright, straightforward
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 skillful,
Not
proud and demanding in nature.
Let them not do the slightest thing
That the wise would later reprove.
Wishing: In gladness and in saftey,
May all beings be at ease.
Whatever living beings
there may be;
Whether they are 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
upwards to the skies,
And downwards to the depths;
Outwards 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 one, having
clarity of vision,
Being freed from all sense desires,
Is not born again into this world.
