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May no difficulties come to them.
May no problems come to them.
May they always meet with success.
May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.
May no harm come to them.
May no difficulties come to them.
May no problems come to them.
May they always meet with success.
May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.
May no harm come to them.
May no difficulties come to them.
May no problems come to them.
May they always meet with success.
May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.
May no harm come to them.
May no difficulties come to them.
May no problems come to them.
May they always meet with success.
May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.
May no harm come to them.
May no difficulties come to them.
May no problems come to them.
May they always meet with success.
May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.
May all living beings be well, happy, and peaceful.
May no harm come to them.
May no difficulties come to them.
May no problems come to them.
May they always meet with success.
May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.
Once you have completed these recitations, lay aside all your troubles and conflicts for the period of practice.
If they come back into your meditation later, just treat them as what they are, distractions.
The practice of universal loving friendliness is also recommended for bedtime and just after arising.
It is said to help you sleep well and to prevent nightmares.
It also makes it easier to get up in the morning.
And it makes you more friendly and open toward everybody, friend or foe, human or otherwise.
The most damaging psychic irritant arising in the mind, particularly at the time when the mind is quiet, is resentment.
You may experience indignation remembering some incident that caused you psychological and physical pain.
This experience can cause you uneasiness, tension, agitation, and worry.
You might not be able to go on sitting and experiencing this state of mind.
Therefore, we strongly recommend that you should start your meditation with generating universal loving friendliness.
You may wonder how we can wish May my enemies be well, happy, and peaceful may no difficulties come to them may no problem come to them may they always meet with success.
May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.
You must remember that you practice loving friendliness for the purification of your own mind, just as you practice meditation for your own attainment of peace and liberation from pain and suffering.
As you practice loving friendliness within yourself, you can behave in a most friendly manner without biases, prejudices, discrimination, or hate.
Your noble behavior enables you to help others in a most practical manner to reduce their pain and suffering.
It is compassionate people who can help others.
Compassion is a manifestation of loving friendliness in action, for one who does not have loving friendliness cannot help others.
Noble behavior means behaving in a most friendly manner.
Behavior includes your thought, speech, and actions.
In addition, from a pragmatic perspective, it is much better to cultivate the noble thought, May all beings be happy minded than the thought, hate him.
Our noble thought will one day express itself in noble behavior and our spiteful thought in evil behavior.
Remember that your thoughts are transformed into speech and action in order to bring the expected result.
Thought translated into action is capable of producing a tangible result.
You should always speak and do things with mindfulness of loving friendliness.
While speaking of loving friendliness, if you then act or speak in a diametrically opposite way, you will be reproached by the wise.
As mindfulness of loving friendliness develops, your thoughts, words, and deeds should be gentle, pleasant, meaningful, truthful, and beneficial to you as well as to others.
If your thoughts, words, or deeds cause harm to you, to others, or to both, then you must ask yourself whether you are really mindful of loving friendliness.
Practically speaking, if all of your enemies were well, happy, and peaceful, they would not be your enemies.
The practical approach toward your enemies is to help them overcome their problems, so you can live in peace and happiness.
In fact, if you can, you should fill the minds of all your enemies with loving friendliness and make all of them realize the true meaning of peace, so you can live in peace and happiness.
The more they are neurotic, psychotic, afraid, tense, and anxious, the more trouble, pain, and suffering they bring to the world.
If you could convert a vicious and wicked person into a holy and saintly individual, you would perform a miracle.
Let us cultivate adequate wisdom and loving friendliness within ourselves to convert evil minds to saintly minds.
When you hate somebody, you think, Let him be ugly.
Let him, after death, reappear in an unhappy state of deprivation in a bad destination for eternity.
However, what actually happens is that your own body generates such harmful chemistry that you experience pain, increased heart rate, tension, change of facial expression, loss of appetite, deprivation of sleep, and you appear very unpleasant to others.
You go through the same things you wish on your enemy.
Also you cannot see the truth as it is.
Or you are like a patient suffering from jaundice to whom any delicious food tastes bland.
Similarly, you cannot appreciate somebodys appearance, achievement, success, etc.
And as long as this condition exists, you cannot meditate well.
Therefore, we recommend very strongly that you practice loving friendliness before you start your serious practice of meditation.
As you recite these passages, feel true loving friendliness within yourself first and then share it with others, for you cannot share with others what you do not have within yourself.
Remember, though, these are not magic formulas.
If you use them as such, you will simply waste time and energy.
But if you truly participate in these statements and invest them with your own energy, they will serve you well.
Problems come in all shapes and sizes, and the only thing you can be absolutely certain about is that you will have some.
The main trick in dealing with obstacles is to adopt the right attitude.
They arent something to be avoided they are to be used.
They provide invaluable opportunities for learning.
The reason we are all stuck in lifes mud is that we ceaselessly run from our problems and after our desires.
Meditation provides us with a laboratory situation in which we can examine this syndrome and devise strategies for dealing with it.
The various snags and hassles that arise during meditation are grist for the mill.
They are the material with which we work.
Life is composed of joys and miseries.
You will experience good times and bad times, ecstasies and fear.
So dont be surprised when you hit some experience that feels like a brick wall.
All seasoned meditators have had their own brick walls.
They come up again and again.
Your ability to cope with trouble depends upon your attitude.
If you can learn to regard these hassles as opportunities, as chances to develop in your practice, youll make progress.
Your ability to deal with some issue that arises in meditation will carry over into the rest of your life and allow you to smooth out big issues that really bother you.
If you try to avoid each piece of nastiness that arises in meditation, you are reinforcing the habit that has already made life seem so unbearable at times.
It is essential to learn to confront the less pleasant aspects of existence.
Our job as meditators is to learn to be patient with ourselves, to see ourselves in an unbiased way, complete with all our sorrows and inadequacies.
We have to learn to be kind to ourselves.
Paradoxically, kindness entails confronting unpleasantness when it arises.
One popular human strategy for dealing with difficulty is autosuggestion when something nasty pops up, you convince yourself it is not there, or you convince yourself it is pleasant rather than unpleasant.
Rather than hide it or disguise it, the Buddhas teaching urges you to examine it to death.

May no difficulties come to them.

May no problems come to them.

May they always meet with success.

May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.

May no harm come to them.

May no difficulties come to them.

May no problems come to them.

May they always meet with success.

May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.

May no harm come to them.

May no difficulties come to them.

May no problems come to them.

May they always meet with success.

May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.

May no harm come to them.

May no difficulties come to them.

May no problems come to them.

May they always meet with success.

May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.

May no harm come to them.

May no difficulties come to them.

May no problems come to them.

May they always meet with success.

May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.

May all living beings be well, happy, and peaceful.

May no harm come to them.

May no difficulties come to them.

May no problems come to them.

May they always meet with success.

May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.

Once you have completed these recitations, lay aside all your troubles and conflicts for the period of practice.

If they come back into your meditation later, just treat them as what they are, distractions.

The practice of universal loving friendliness is also recommended for bedtime and just after arising.

It is said to help you sleep well and to prevent nightmares.

It also makes it easier to get up in the morning.

And it makes you more friendly and open toward everybody, friend or foe, human or otherwise.

The most damaging psychic irritant arising in the mind, particularly at the time when the mind is quiet, is resentment.

You may experience indignation remembering some incident that caused you psychological and physical pain.

This experience can cause you uneasiness, tension, agitation, and worry.

You might not be able to go on sitting and experiencing this state of mind.

Therefore, we strongly recommend that you should start your meditation with generating universal loving friendliness.

You may wonder how we can wish May my enemies be well, happy, and peaceful may no difficulties come to them may no problem come to them may they always meet with success.

May they also have patience, courage, understanding, and determination to meet and overcome inevitable difficulties, problems, and failures in life.

You must remember that you practice loving friendliness for the purification of your own mind, just as you practice meditation for your own attainment of peace and liberation from pain and suffering.

As you practice loving friendliness within yourself, you can behave in a most friendly manner without biases, prejudices, discrimination, or hate.

Your noble behavior enables you to help others in a most practical manner to reduce their pain and suffering.

It is compassionate people who can help others.

Compassion is a manifestation of loving friendliness in action, for one who does not have loving friendliness cannot help others.

Noble behavior means behaving in a most friendly manner.

Behavior includes your thought, speech, and actions.

In addition, from a pragmatic perspective, it is much better to cultivate the noble thought, May all beings be happy minded than the thought, hate him.

Our noble thought will one day express itself in noble behavior and our spiteful thought in evil behavior.

Remember that your thoughts are transformed into speech and action in order to bring the expected result.

Thought translated into action is capable of producing a tangible result.

You should always speak and do things with mindfulness of loving friendliness.

While speaking of loving friendliness, if you then act or speak in a diametrically opposite way, you will be reproached by the wise.

As mindfulness of loving friendliness develops, your thoughts, words, and deeds should be gentle, pleasant, meaningful, truthful, and beneficial to you as well as to others.

If your thoughts, words, or deeds cause harm to you, to others, or to both, then you must ask yourself whether you are really mindful of loving friendliness.

Practically speaking, if all of your enemies were well, happy, and peaceful, they would not be your enemies.

The practical approach toward your enemies is to help them overcome their problems, so you can live in peace and happiness.

In fact, if you can, you should fill the minds of all your enemies with loving friendliness and make all of them realize the true meaning of peace, so you can live in peace and happiness.

The more they are neurotic, psychotic, afraid, tense, and anxious, the more trouble, pain, and suffering they bring to the world.

If you could convert a vicious and wicked person into a holy and saintly individual, you would perform a miracle.

Let us cultivate adequate wisdom and loving friendliness within ourselves to convert evil minds to saintly minds.

When you hate somebody, you think, Let him be ugly.

Let him, after death, reappear in an unhappy state of deprivation in a bad destination for eternity.

However, what actually happens is that your own body generates such harmful chemistry that you experience pain, increased heart rate, tension, change of facial expression, loss of appetite, deprivation of sleep, and you appear very unpleasant to others.

You go through the same things you wish on your enemy.

Also you cannot see the truth as it is.

Or you are like a patient suffering from jaundice to whom any delicious food tastes bland.

Similarly, you cannot appreciate somebodys appearance, achievement, success, etc.

And as long as this condition exists, you cannot meditate well.

Therefore, we recommend very strongly that you practice loving friendliness before you start your serious practice of meditation.

As you recite these passages, feel true loving friendliness within yourself first and then share it with others, for you cannot share with others what you do not have within yourself.

Remember, though, these are not magic formulas.

If you use them as such, you will simply waste time and energy.

But if you truly participate in these statements and invest them with your own energy, they will serve you well.

Problems come in all shapes and sizes, and the only thing you can be absolutely certain about is that you will have some.

The main trick in dealing with obstacles is to adopt the right attitude.

They arent something to be avoided they are to be used.

They provide invaluable opportunities for learning.

The reason we are all stuck in lifes mud is that we ceaselessly run from our problems and after our desires.

Meditation provides us with a laboratory situation in which we can examine this syndrome and devise strategies for dealing with it.

The various snags and hassles that arise during meditation are grist for the mill.

They are the material with which we work.

Life is composed of joys and miseries.

You will experience good times and bad times, ecstasies and fear.

So dont be surprised when you hit some experience that feels like a brick wall.

All seasoned meditators have had their own brick walls.

They come up again and again.

Your ability to cope with trouble depends upon your attitude.

If you can learn to regard these hassles as opportunities, as chances to develop in your practice, youll make progress.

Your ability to deal with some issue that arises in meditation will carry over into the rest of your life and allow you to smooth out big issues that really bother you.

If you try to avoid each piece of nastiness that arises in meditation, you are reinforcing the habit that has already made life seem so unbearable at times.

It is essential to learn to confront the less pleasant aspects of existence.

Our job as meditators is to learn to be patient with ourselves, to see ourselves in an unbiased way, complete with all our sorrows and inadequacies.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves.

Paradoxically, kindness entails confronting unpleasantness when it arises.

One popular human strategy for dealing with difficulty is autosuggestion when something nasty pops up, you convince yourself it is not there, or you convince yourself it is pleasant rather than unpleasant.

Rather than hide it or disguise it, the Buddhas teaching urges you to examine it to death.