I undertake the precept to refrain from killing living creatures. I undertake the precept to refrain from receiving gold and currency. I undertake the precept to refrain from stealing. I undertake the precept to refrain from sexual activity. I undertake the precept to refrain from lying. I undertake the precept to refrain from consuming beer, wine, and liquor intoxicants.

What is the six? Six interior sense fields. What is the seven? Seven awakening factors. What is the eight? The noble eightfold path.

so too for all creatures unfold a boundless heart. With love for the whole world, unfold a boundless heart: above, below, all round, unconstricted, without enmity or foe.

Whatever beings have gathered here, on the ground or in the sky, may beings all be of happy heart, and listen carefully to what is said. When they attain to vision they give up three things:

Withered are the seeds, there’s no desire for growth, those attentive ones are extinguished just like this lamp. This sublime gem is in the Saṅgha: by this truth, may you be well! Whatever beings have gathered here, on the ground or in the sky:

the Realized One is honored by gods and humans! We bow to the Buddha! May you be safe! Whatever beings have gathered here, on the ground or in the sky: the Realized One is honored by gods and humans! We bow to the Dhamma! May you be safe!

Whatever it is that they wish for through this they have it all. Good looks, a sweet voice, a good shape, and good appearance, leadership and followers: through this they have it all.

Let them not do the slightest thing that others who are wise would blame. May they be happy and safe! May all beings be happy! Whatever living creatures there are with not a one left out—

substantialist view, doubt, and any attachment to precepts and observances. They’re freed from the four places of loss, and cannot do six things. This sublime gem is in the Saṅgha: by this truth, may you be well!

That’s why those who have compassion give to their relatives food and drink at the right time, that’s clean, delicious, and suitable. “May this be for our relatives! May our relatives be happy!”

strong-minded, free of sense desire, they’ve attained the goal, plunged into freedom from death, and enjoy the quenching they’ve freely gained. This sublime gem is in the Saṅgha: by this truth, may you be well! As Indra’s pillar rooted in earth

Caring for mother and father, kindness to children and partners, and unstressful work: this is the highest blessing. Giving and righteous conduct, kindness to relatives,

At a shrine or with the Saṅgha, with mother or father, or else an elder sibling, those savings are kept safe, they stay with you, undecaying. We must go on leaving all behind,

Let none deceive another, nor look down on anyone anywhere. Though provoked or aggrieved, let them not wish pain on each other. Even as a mother would protect with her life her child, her only child,

Respect and placidity, contentment and gratitude, and timely listening to the teaching: this is the highest blessing.

Sovereignty of a local kingdom, the happiness of a Wheel-Turning Monarch, even kingship in the heavens: through this they have it all. Human success, heavenly delight,

blameless deeds: this is the highest blessing. Desisting and abstaining from evil, avoiding drinking liquor, diligence in good qualities: this is the highest blessing.

Even if they do a bad deed by body, speech, or mind, they are unable to conceal it; they say this inability applies to one who has seen the truth. This sublime gem is in the Saṅgha: by this truth, may you be well!

give offerings to departed kin, remembering past deeds. For neither tears nor grief or other lamentations are of any use to the departed, so long as their relatives stay like this.

how the mendicants can be kept strong, and how no little merit is produced by you. But when lavish food and drink of many kinds is set out, no-one remembers them at all, because of those beings’s deeds.