{"id":"iti22","title":"The Benefits of Love","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti22","title":"The Benefits of Love","units":[{"id":"iti22:0","sourceIds":["iti22:0.1","iti22:0.2","iti22:0.3","iti22:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 22\nEkakanipāta\nTatiyavagga\nMettasutta","en":"So It Was Said 22\nThe Book of the Ones\nChapter Three\nThe Benefits of Love"}},{"id":"iti22:1","sourceIds":["iti22:1.1"],"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":"iti22:2","sourceIds":["iti22:2.1","iti22:2.2","iti22:2.3","iti22:2.4","iti22:2.5","iti22:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Mā, bhikkhave, puññānaṁ bhāyittha.\nSukhassetaṁ, bhikkhave, adhivacanaṁ iṭṭhassa kantassa piyassa manāpassa yadidaṁ puññāni.\nAbhijānāmi kho panāhaṁ, bhikkhave, dīgharattaṁ katānaṁ puññānaṁ iṭṭhaṁ kantaṁ piyaṁ manāpaṁ vipākaṁ paccanubhūtaṁ.\nSatta vassāni mettacittaṁ bhāvetvā satta saṁvaṭṭavivaṭṭakappe nayimaṁ lokaṁ punarāgamāsiṁ.\nSaṁvaṭṭamāne sudaṁ, bhikkhave, kappe ābhassarūpago homi;\nvivaṭṭamāne kappe suññaṁ brahmavimānaṁ upapajjāmi.","en":"“Mendicants, don’t fear good deeds.\nFor ‘good deeds’ is a term for happiness, for what is likable, desirable, and agreeable.\nI recall undergoing for a long time the likable, desirable, and agreeable results of good deeds performed over a long time.\nHaving developed a mind of love for seven years, for seven eons of the cosmos contracting and expanding I didn’t return to this world again.\nAs the eon contracted I went to the realm of sublime luminosity.\nAs it expanded I was reborn in an empty mansion of divinity."}},{"id":"iti22:3","sourceIds":["iti22:3.1","iti22:3.2","iti22:3.3","iti22:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tatra sudaṁ, bhikkhave, brahmā homi mahābrahmā abhibhū anabhibhūto aññadatthudaso vasavattī.\nChattiṁsakkhattuṁ kho panāhaṁ, bhikkhave, sakko ahosiṁ devānamindo;\nanekasatakkhattuṁ rājā ahosiṁ cakkavattī dhammiko dhammarājā cāturanto vijitāvī janapadatthāvariyappatto sattaratanasamannāgato.\nKo pana vādo padesarajjassa.","en":"There I was the Divinity, the Great Divinity, the vanquisher, the unvanquished, the universal seer, the wielder of power.\nI was Sakka, lord of gods, thirty-six times.\nMany hundreds of times I was a king, a wheel-turning monarch, a just and principled king. My dominion extended to all four sides, I achieved stability in the country, and I possessed the seven treasures.\nNot to mention regional kingship!"}},{"id":"iti22:4","sourceIds":["iti22:4.1","iti22:4.2","iti22:4.3","iti22:4.4","iti22:4.5","iti22:4.6","iti22:4.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassa mayhaṁ, bhikkhave, etadahosi:\n‘kissa nu kho me idaṁ kammassa phalaṁ, kissa kammassa vipāko, yenāhaṁ etarahi evaṁmahiddhiko evaṁmahānubhāvo’ti?\nTassa mayhaṁ, bhikkhave, etadahosi:\n‘tiṇṇaṁ kho me idaṁ kammānaṁ phalaṁ, tiṇṇaṁ kammānaṁ vipāko, yenāhaṁ etarahi evaṁmahiddhiko evaṁmahānubhāvoti, seyyathidaṁ—\ndānassa, damassa, saññamassā’”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"Then I thought,\n‘Of what deed of mine is this the fruit and result, that I am now so mighty and powerful?’\nThen I thought,\n‘It is the fruit and result of three kinds of deeds:\ngiving, self-control, and restraint.’”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti22:5","sourceIds":["iti22:5.1","iti22:5.2","iti22:5.3","iti22:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Puññameva so sikkheyya,\nāyataggaṁ sukhudrayaṁ;\nDānañca samacariyañca,\nmettacittañca bhāvaye.","en":"“One should practice only good deeds,\nwhose happy outcome stretches ahead.\nGiving and moral conduct,\ndeveloping a mind of love:"}},{"id":"iti22:6","sourceIds":["iti22:6.1","iti22:6.2","iti22:6.3","iti22:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ete dhamme bhāvayitvā,\ntayo sukhasamuddaye;\nAbyāpajjaṁ sukhaṁ lokaṁ,\npaṇḍito upapajjatī”ti.","en":"having developed these\nthree things yielding happiness,\nthat astute one is reborn\nin a happy, pleasing world.”"}},{"id":"iti22:7","sourceIds":["iti22:7.1","iti22:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayampi attho vutto bhagavatā, iti me sutanti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/iti22/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."}