{"id":"iti27","title":"The Meditation on Love","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti27","title":"The Meditation on Love","units":[{"id":"iti27:0","sourceIds":["iti27:0.1","iti27:0.2","iti27:0.3","iti27:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 27\nEkakanipāta\nTatiyavagga\nMettābhāvanāsutta","en":"So It Was Said 27\nThe Book of the Ones\nChapter Three\nThe Meditation on Love"}},{"id":"iti27:1","sourceIds":["iti27:1.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vuttañhetaṁ bhagavatā vuttamarahatāti me sutaṁ:","en":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard."}},{"id":"iti27:2","sourceIds":["iti27:2.1","iti27:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yāni kānici, bhikkhave, opadhikāni puññakiriyavatthūni sabbāni tāni mettāya cetovimuttiyā kalaṁ nāgghanti soḷasiṁ.\nMettāyeva tāni cetovimutti adhiggahetvā bhāsate ca tapate ca virocati ca.","en":"“Mendicants, of all the grounds for making worldly merit, none are worth a sixteenth part of the heart’s release by love.\nSurpassing them, the heart’s release by love shines and glows and dazzles."}},{"id":"iti27:3","sourceIds":["iti27:3.1","iti27:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, yā kāci tārakarūpānaṁ pabhā sabbā tā candiyā pabhāya kalaṁ nāgghanti soḷasiṁ, candapabhāyeva tā adhiggahetvā bhāsate ca tapate ca virocati ca;\nevamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, yāni kānici opadhikāni puññakiriyavatthūni sabbāni tāni mettāya cetovimuttiyā kalaṁ nāgghanti soḷasiṁ, mettāyeva tāni cetovimutti adhiggahetvā bhāsate ca tapate ca virocati ca.","en":"It’s like how the radiance of all the stars is not worth a sixteenth part of the moon’s radiance. Surpassing them, the moon’s radiance shines and glows and dazzles.\nIn the same way, of all the grounds for making worldly merit, none are worth a sixteenth part of the heart’s release by love. Surpassing them, the heart’s release by love shines and glows and dazzles."}},{"id":"iti27:4","sourceIds":["iti27:4.1","iti27:4.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, vassānaṁ pacchime māse saradasamaye viddhe vigatavalāhake deve ādicco nabhaṁ abbhussakkamāno sabbaṁ ākāsagataṁ tamagataṁ abhivihacca bhāsate ca tapate ca virocati ca;\nevamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, yāni kānici opadhikāni puññakiriyavatthūni sabbāni tāni mettāya cetovimuttiyā kalaṁ nāgghanti soḷasiṁ, mettāyeva tāni cetovimutti adhiggahetvā bhāsate ca tapate ca virocati ca.","en":"It’s like the last month of the rainy season, in autumn, when the heavens are sunny and cloudless. And as the sun is rising to the firmament, having dispelled all the darkness of space, it shines and glows and dazzles.\nIn the same way, of all the grounds for making worldly merit, none are worth a sixteenth part of the heart’s release by love. Surpassing them, the heart’s release by love shines and glows and dazzles."}},{"id":"iti27:5","sourceIds":["iti27:5.1","iti27:5.2","iti27:5.3","iti27:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, rattiyā paccūsasamayaṁ osadhitārakā bhāsate ca tapate ca virocati ca;\nevamevaṁ kho, bhikkhave, yāni kānici opadhikāni puññakiriyavatthūni sabbāni tāni mettāya cetovimuttiyā kalaṁ nāgghanti soḷasiṁ, mettāyeva tāni cetovimutti adhiggahetvā bhāsate ca tapate ca virocati cā”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"It’s like how, at the crack of dawn, the morning star shines and glows and dazzles.\nIn the same way, of all the grounds for making worldly merit, none are worth a sixteenth part of the heart’s release by love. Surpassing them, the heart’s release by love shines and glows and dazzles.”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti27:6","sourceIds":["iti27:6.1","iti27:6.2","iti27:6.3","iti27:6.4"],"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":"iti27:7","sourceIds":["iti27:7.1","iti27:7.2","iti27:7.3","iti27:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekampi ce pāṇamaduṭṭhacitto,\nMettāyati kusalo tena hoti;\nSabbe ca pāṇe manasānukampaṁ,\nPahūtamariyo pakaroti puññaṁ.","en":"Loving just one creature with a hateless heart\nmakes you a good person.\nSympathetic for all creatures,\na noble one creates abundant merit."}},{"id":"iti27:8","sourceIds":["iti27:8.1","iti27:8.2","iti27:8.3","iti27:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye sattasaṇḍaṁ pathaviṁ vijitvā,\nRājisayo yajamānānupariyagā;\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":"iti27:9","sourceIds":["iti27:9.1","iti27:9.2","iti27:9.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Mettassa cittassa subhāvitassa,\nKalampi te nānubhavanti soḷasiṁ;\nCandappabhā tāragaṇāva sabbe.","en":"These are not worth a sixteenth part\nof the mind developed with love,\nas starlight cannot rival the moon."}},{"id":"iti27:10","sourceIds":["iti27:10.1","iti27:10.2","iti27:10.3","iti27:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo na hanti na ghāteti,\nna jināti na jāpaye;\nMettaṁso sabbabhūtesu,\nveraṁ tassa na kenacī”ti.","en":"Don’t kill or cause others to kill,\ndon’t conquer or encourage others to conquer,\nwith love for all living creatures—\nyou’ll have no enmity for anyone.”"}},{"id":"iti27:11","sourceIds":["iti27:11.1","iti27:11.2","iti27:11.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayampi attho vutto bhagavatā, iti me sutanti.\nSattamaṁ.\nTatiyo vaggo.","en":"This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard."}},{"id":"iti27:12","sourceIds":["iti27:12.0","iti27:12.1","iti27:12.2","iti27:12.3","iti27:12.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nCittaṁ mettaṁ ubho atthe,\npuñjaṁ vepullapabbataṁ;\nSampajānamusāvādo,\ndānañca mettabhāvanā."}},{"id":"iti27:13","sourceIds":["iti27:13.1","iti27:13.2","iti27:13.3","iti27:13.4","iti27:13.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sattimāni ca suttāni,\npurimāni ca vīsati;\nEkadhammesu suttantā,\nsattavīsatisaṅgahāti.\nEkakanipāto niṭṭhito."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/iti27/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."}