{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_iti27/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_iti27","id":"suttacentral_iti27","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/iti27/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard. \u201cMendicants, of all the grounds for making worldly merit, none are worth a sixteenth part of the heart\u2019s release by love. Surpassing them, the heart\u2019s release by love shines and glows and dazzles. It\u2019s like how the radiance of all the stars is not worth a sixteenth part of the moon\u2019s radiance. Surpassing them, the moon\u2019s radiance shines and glows and dazzles. In the same way, of all the grounds for making worldly merit, none are worth a sixteenth part of the heart\u2019s release by love. Surpassing them, the heart\u2019s release by love shines and glows and dazzles. It\u2019s like the last month of the rainy season, in autumn, when the heavens are sunny and cloudless. And as the sun is rising to the firmament, having dispelled all the darkness of space, it shines and glows and dazzles. In the same way, of all the grounds for making worldly merit, none are worth a sixteenth part of the heart\u2019s release by love. Surpassing them, the heart\u2019s release by love shines and glows and dazzles. It\u2019s like how, at the crack of dawn, the morning star shines and glows and dazzles. In the same way, of all the grounds for making worldly merit, none are worth a sixteenth part of the heart\u2019s release by love. Surpassing them, the heart\u2019s release by love shines and glows and dazzles.\u201d The Buddha spoke this matter. On this it is said: \u201cA mindful one who develops limitless love weakens the fetters, seeing the ending of attachments. Loving just one creature with a hateless heart makes you a good person. Sympathetic for all creatures, a noble one creates abundant merit. The royal potentates conquered this land and traveled around sponsoring sacrifices\u2014 horse sacrifice, human sacrifice, the sacrifices of the \u2018casting of the yoke-pin\u2019, <j>the \u2018royal soma drinking\u2019, and the \u2018unimpeded\u2019. These are not worth a sixteenth part of the mind developed with love, as starlight cannot rival the moon. Don\u2019t kill or cause others to kill, don\u2019t conquer or encourage others to conquer, with love for all living creatures\u2014 you\u2019ll have no enmity for anyone.\u201d This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.","title":"The Meditation on Love","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":380}