Karaniya Metta Sutta

   

A Mother's Love is the Greatest Love

With an epic migration route that averages around 5,000 km, one of the longest migratory journeys of any mammal on earth, the ocean beaches and coves of Jervis Bay, from May to November, remain one of the best places to witness the extraordinary event of humpback whale mother feeding her calf.

 

KARANIYA METTA SUTTA

THE DISCOURSE ON LOVING-KINDNESS

 

KARANIYAM-ATTHA-KUSALENA
YANTAM SANTAM PADAM ABHISAMECCA,

This is to be done by one skilled in aims

Who wants to break through to the state of peace:

SAKKO UJU CA SUHUJU CA
SUVACO CASSA MUDU ANATIMANI,

Be capable, upright, and straightforward,

Easy to instruct, gentle, and not conceited,

 

SANTUSSAKO CA SUBHARO CA
APPAKICCO CA SALLAHUKA-VUTTI,

Content and easy to support, with few duties, living lightly,

SANTINDRIYO CA NIPAKO CA
APPAGABBHO KULESU ANANUGIDDHO.

With peaceful faculties, masterful, modest, and no greed for supporters.

 

NA CA KHUDDAM SAMACARE KIÑCI
YENA VIÑÑU PARE UPAVADEYYUM.

Do not do the slightest thing that the wise would later censure.

SUKHINO VA KHEMINO HONTU
SABBE SATTA BHAVANTU SUKHITATTA.

Think: Happy and secure, may all beings be happy at heart.

 

YE KECI PANA-BHUTATTHI
TASA VA THAVARA VA ANAVASESA,

Whatever beings there may be, weak or strong, without exception,

DIGHA VA YE MAHANTA VA
MAJJHIMA RASSAKA ANUKA-THULA,

Long, large, middling, short, subtle, blatant,

 

DITTHA VA YE CA ADITTHA
YE CA DURE VASANTI AVIDURE,

Seen or unseen, near or far,

BHUTA VA SAMBHAVESI VA
SABBE SATTA BHAVANTU SUKHITATTA.

Born or seeking birth: May all beings be happy at heart.

 

NA PARO PARAM NIKUBBETHA
NATIMAÑÑETHA KATTHACI NAM KIÑCI

Let no one deceive another or despise anyone anywhere,

BYAROSANA PATIGHA-SAÑÑA
NAÑÑAM-AÑÑASSA DUKKHAM-ICCHEYYA.

Or through anger or resistance wish for another to suffer.

 

 

KARANIYA METTA SUTTA

(Continued)

 

MATA YATHA NIYAM PUTTAM
AYUSA EKA-PUTTAM-ANURAKKHE,

As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child,

EVAM-PI SABBA-BHUTESU
MANA-SAMBHAVAYE APARIMANAM.

Even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings.

 

METTAÑCA SABBA-LOKASMIM
MANA-SAMBHAVAYE APARIMANAM,

With good will for the entire cosmos, cultivate a limitless heart:

UDDHAM ADHO CA TIRIYAÑCA
ASAMBADHAM AVERAM ASAPATTAM.

Above, below, and all around, unobstructed, without enmity or hate.

 

TITTHAÑ'CARAM NISINNO VA
SAYANO VA YAVATASSA VIGATAM-IDDHO,

Whether standing, walking, sitting, or lying down, as long as one is alert,

ETAM SATIM ADHITTHEYYA
BRAHMAM-ETAM VIHARAM IDHAM-AHU.

One should be resolved on this mindfulness.
This is called a sublime abiding here and now.

 

DITTHIÑCA ANUPAGAMMA
SILAVA DASSANENA SAMPANNO,

Not taken with views, but virtuous and consummate in vision,

KAMESU VINEYYA GEDHAM,
NA HI JATU GABBHA-SEYYAM PUNARETITI.

Having subdued desire for sensual pleasures,
One never again will lie in the womb.

 

Whale watching in Jervis Bay  http://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/south-coast/jervis-bay-and-shoalhaven/whale-watching


5 Facts of humpback whale http://www.jervisbaywild.com.au/5-facts-you-didnt-know-about-humpback-whales/