Metta (Mettanisamsa) Sutta
Mettanisamsa Sutta (AN 11.15), or Metta Sutta, is one of two discourses (suttas) in the Pali Canon that are known as the Metta Sutta. The other is the Karaniya Metta Sutta (Sn 1.8).
The Mettanisamsa Sutta is found in the Anguttara Nikaya (AN 11.15). This sutta is known as the Mettanisamsa Sutta in the Sri Lanka Buddha Jayanti Tripitaka Series (BJT), and as the Metta Sutta in Thai, Burmese, and Pali Text Society (PTS) publications.[1]
The Mettanisamsa Sutta extols the benefits of mettā (Pali).
Translations
Translation by Bhikkhu Sujato
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“Mendicants, you can expect eleven 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.
What eleven? You 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. Your mind quickly enters immersion. Your face is clear and bright. You don’t feel lost when you die. If you don’t penetrate any higher, you’ll be reborn in a Brahmā realm. You can expect eleven 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.”
Other translations
Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Mettā Sutta (AN 11:16), Dhammatalks.org
Piyadassi Thera (2005), Metta (Mettanisamsa) Sutta: Discourse on Advantages of Loving-kindness , Access to Insight
Notes
- ↑ Metta (Mettanisamsa) Sutta: Good Will, Access to Insight