Hoa Vo Uu (Buddha Dharma Education Association)
Venerable Shravasti Dhammika
The Buddha’s Words of Wisdom
Whoever was greedy and is now free from greed,
whoever was hating and is now free from hating,
whoever was grudging and is now free from grudging,
whoever was hypocritical and is now free from hypocrisy,
whoever was spiteful and is now free from spite,
whoever was jealous and is now free from jealousy,
whoever was mean and is now free from meanness,
whoever was untrustworthy and is now free from untrustworthiness,
whoever was cunning and is now free from cunning,
whoever had evil desires and is now free from evil desires,
whoever had wrong views and is now free from views—
Thus, I say, one follows the practice worthy of recluses, one is getting rid of the same things that stain recluses, the faults and defects of recluses, things that lead to sorrow, rebirth in a bad place. Once sees oneself purified of evil unskilled things and freed from them. Then gladness arises, from gladness comes joy, because of joy the body is tranquil, with a tranquil body one is happy, and the mind of one who is happy is concentrated. One abides with a mind filled with love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity, suffusing the first, second, third, and fourth quarters of the world. One abides suffusing the whole world – upwards, downwards, across, everywhere – with a mind filled with love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity, abundant, unbounded, without hatred or ill-will.
