This beautiful prayer is derived from the Metta Sutra. I found it in Lama Surya Das’ Awakening the Buddha Within, an excellent book on Buddhism.<\/p>\n
This may be one of the most powerful and self-transformational prayers one can utter.<\/p>\n
The Metta Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n May all beings be happy, content and fulfilled.<\/p>\n May all beings be healed and whole.<\/p>\n May all have whatever they want and need.<\/p>\n May all be protected from harm, and free from fear.<\/p>\n May all beings enjoy inner peace and ease.<\/p>\n May all be awakened, liberated and free.<\/p>\n May there be peace in this world, and throughout the entire universe.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The Buddha has said that this prayer will be great benefit to those who recite and meditate upon this. <\/p>\n According to Lama Das, you will "sleep easily, wake easily, have pleasant dreams, people will love you, celestial beings will love you and protect you; poisons, fire and other external dangers will not harm you, your face will be radiant, and your mind concentrated and serene; and you will die unconfused and be reborn in the happy realms." What more could a Buddhist or human being ask for?<\/p>\n Posted by: skip<\/p>\n Notes: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This beautiful prayer is derived from the Metta Sutra. I found it in Lama Surya Das’ Awakening the Buddha Within, an excellent book on Buddhism. This may be one of the most powerful and self-transformational prayers one can utter. The Metta Prayer May all beings be happy, content and fulfilled. May all beings be healed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}