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    Metta Sutta

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    This document outlines teachings from Buddha on cultivating peace and protecting oneself. It encourages developing good qualities like compassion, harmlessness, contentment and wisdom. It teaches that the highest forms of protection include consorting with wise people, living virtuously, practicing restraint, generosity, patience, seeing the Noble Truths and attaining a peaceful, unshaken mind.

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    Metta Sutta

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    This document outlines teachings from Buddha on cultivating peace and protecting oneself. It encourages developing good qualities like compassion, harmlessness, contentment and wisdom. It teaches that the highest forms of protection include consorting with wise people, living virtuously, practicing restraint, generosity, patience, seeing the Noble Truths and attaining a peaceful, unshaken mind.

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    This document outlines teachings from Buddha on cultivating peace and protecting oneself. It encourages developing good qualities like compassion, harmlessness, contentment and wisdom. It teaches that the highest forms of protection include consorting with wise people, living virtuously, practicing restraint, generosity, patience, seeing the Noble Truths and attaining a peaceful, unshaken mind.

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    Metta Sutta

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    This is to be done by one skilled in aims

    who wants to break through to the state of peace:

    Be capable, upright, & straightforward,

    easy to instruct, gentle, & not conceited,

    content & easy to support,

    with few duties, living lightly,

    with peaceful faculties, masterful,

    modest, & no greed for supporters.

    Do not do the slightest thing

    that the wise would later censure.

    Think: Happy, at rest,

    may all beings be happy at heart.

    Whatever beings there may be,

    weak or strong, without exception,

    long, large,

    middling, short,

    subtle, blatant,

    seen & unseen,

    near & far,

    born & seeking birth:

    May all beings be happy at heart.

    Let no one deceive another

    or despise anyone anywhere,

    or through anger or irritation

    wish for another to suffer.

    As a mother would risk her life

    to protect her child, her only child,

    even so should one cultivate a limitless heart

    with regard to all beings.

    With good will for the entire cosmos,

    cultivate a limitless heart:

    Above, below, & all around,

    unobstructed, without enmity or hate.

    Whether standing, walking,

    sitting, or lying down,

    as long as one is alert,

    one should be resolved on this mindfulness.

    This is called a sublime abiding

    here & now.

    Not taken with views,

    but virtuous & consummate in vision,

    having subdued desire for sensual pleasures,

    one never again

    will lie in the womb.

    Many devas and human beings

    give thought to protection,

    desiring well-being.

    Tell, then, the highest protection.

    The Buddha:

    Not consorting with fools,

    consorting with the wise,

    paying homage to those worthy of homage:

    This is the highest protection.

    Living in a civilized land,

    having made merit in the past,

    directing oneself rightly:

    This is the highest protection.

    Broad knowledge, skill,

    well-mastered discipline,

    well-spoken words:

    This is the highest protection.

    Support for one's parents,

    assistance to one's wife and children,

    consistency in one's work:

    This is the highest protection.

    Giving, living in rectitude,

    assistance to one's relatives,

    deeds that are blameless:

    This is the highest protection.

    Avoiding, abstaining from evil;

    refraining from intoxicants,

    being heedful of the qualities of the mind:

    This is the highest protection.

    Respect, humility,

    contentment, gratitude,

    hearing the Dhamma on timely occasions:

    This is the highest protection.

    Patience, compliance,

    seeing contemplatives,

    discussing the Dhamma on timely occasions:

    This is the highest protection.

    Austerity, celibacy,

    seeing the Noble Truths,

    realizing Unbinding:

    This is the highest protection.

    A mind that, when touched

    by the ways of the world,

    is unshaken, sorrowless, dustless, at rest:

    This is the highest protection.

    Everywhere undefeated

    when acting in this way,

    people go everywhere in well-being:

    This is their highest protection.

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