{"id":"an8.1","title":"The Benefits of Love","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an8.1","title":"The Benefits of Love","units":[{"id":"an8.1:0","sourceIds":["an8.1:0.1","an8.1:0.2","an8.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.1\n1. Mettāvagga\nMettāsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 8.1\n1. Love\nThe Benefits of Love"}},{"id":"an8.1:1","sourceIds":["an8.1:1.1","an8.1:1.2","an8.1:1.3","an8.1:1.4","an8.1:1.5","an8.1:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nTatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi:\n“bhikkhavo”ti.\n“Bhadante”ti te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṁ.\nBhagavā etadavoca:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.\nThere the Buddha addressed the mendicants,\n“Mendicants!”\n“Venerable sir,” they replied.\nThe Buddha said this:"}},{"id":"an8.1:2","sourceIds":["an8.1:2.1","an8.1:2.2","an8.1:2.3","an8.1:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Mettāya, bhikkhave, cetovimuttiyā āsevitāya bhāvitāya bahulīkatāya yānīkatāya vatthukatāya anuṭṭhitāya paricitāya susamāraddhāya aṭṭhānisaṁsā pāṭikaṅkhā.\nKatame aṭṭha?\nSukhaṁ supati, sukhaṁ paṭibujjhati, na pāpakaṁ supinaṁ passati, manussānaṁ piyo hoti, amanussānaṁ piyo hoti, devatā rakkhanti, nāssa aggi vā visaṁ vā satthaṁ vā kamati, uttariṁ appaṭivijjhanto brahmalokūpago hoti.\nMettāya, bhikkhave, cetovimuttiyā āsevitāya bhāvitāya bahulīkatāya yānīkatāya vatthukatāya anuṭṭhitāya paricitāya susamāraddhāya ime aṭṭhānisaṁsā pāṭikaṅkhāti.","en":"“Mendicants, you can expect eight benefits when the heart’s release by love has been cultivated, developed, and practiced, made a vehicle and a basis, kept up, consolidated, and properly implemented.\nWhat eight?\nYou sleep at ease. You wake happily. You don’t have bad dreams. Humans love you. Non-humans love you. Deities protect you. You can’t be harmed by fire, poison, or blade. If you don’t penetrate any higher, you’ll be reborn in a realm of divinity.\nYou can expect these eight benefits when the heart’s release by love has been cultivated, developed, and practiced, made a vehicle and a basis, kept up, consolidated, and properly implemented."}},{"id":"an8.1:3","sourceIds":["an8.1:3.1","an8.1:3.2","an8.1:3.3","an8.1:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo ca mettaṁ bhāvayati,\nappamāṇaṁ paṭissato;\nTanū saṁyojanā honti,\npassato upadhikkhayaṁ.","en":"A mindful one who develops\nlimitless love\nweakens the fetters,\nseeing the ending of attachments."}},{"id":"an8.1:4","sourceIds":["an8.1:4.1","an8.1:4.2","an8.1:4.3","an8.1:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekampi ce pāṇamaduṭṭhacitto,\nMettāyati kusalī tena hoti;\nSabbe ca pāṇe manasānukampī,\nPahūtamariyo pakaroti puññaṁ.","en":"Loving just one creature with a hateless heart\nmakes you a true person.\nSympathetic for all creatures,\na noble one creates abundant merit."}},{"id":"an8.1:5","sourceIds":["an8.1:5.1","an8.1:5.2","an8.1:5.3","an8.1:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye sattasaṇḍaṁ pathaviṁ vijetvā,\nRājisayo yajamānā anupariyagā;\nAssamedhaṁ purisamedhaṁ,\nSammāpāsaṁ vājapeyyaṁ niraggaḷaṁ.","en":"The royal potentates conquered this land\nand traveled around sponsoring sacrifices—\nhorse sacrifice, human sacrifice,\nthe sacrifices of the ‘casting of the yoke-pin’, the ‘royal soma drinking’, and the ‘unimpeded’."}},{"id":"an8.1:6","sourceIds":["an8.1:6.1","an8.1:6.2","an8.1:6.3","an8.1:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Mettassa cittassa subhāvitassa,\nKalampi te nānubhavanti soḷasiṁ;\nCandappabhā tāragaṇāva sabbe,\nYathā na agghanti kalampi soḷasiṁ.","en":"These are not worth a sixteenth part\nof the mind developed with love,\nas all the constellations of stars\naren’t worth a sixteenth part of the moon’s light."}},{"id":"an8.1:7","sourceIds":["an8.1:7.1","an8.1:7.2","an8.1:7.3","an8.1:7.4","an8.1:7.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo na hanti na ghāteti,\nna jināti na jāpaye;\nMettaṁso sabbabhūtānaṁ,\nveraṁ tassa na kenacī”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"Don’t kill or cause others to kill,\ndon’t conquer or encourage others to conquer,\nwith love for all sentient beings,\nyou’ll have no enmity for anyone.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.1/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}