The Four Immeasurables

The Four Immeasurables

The Immeasurable Equanimity

With definitive knowing and belief,
we attend to all phenomena of the inner and outer world without attachment or aversion.
All phenomena are incorporeal and illusive by nature.
We shall stay aloof from differentiating love and hatred, friend and foe.
But practise equanimity towards all sentient beings.

The Immeasurable Loving Kindness

With loving kindness towards all sentient beings we give them happiness and peace.
We help them to avoid afflictive emotions and aversion.
We show them the path to cultivate wholesomeness and obtain liberation, and hence as they stop replanting the seed of suffering, they gain wisdom and blessings.
We treat all sentient beings as equals, and with endless love, we care for them as dear as our own children.

The Immeasurable Compassion

Be compassionate to those who live a wrongful life which causes them immediate or future suffering. For them, at all costs, I will endure humiliation, hardships, and even beatings.
I will try to reduce their suffering by explaining to them the right ways at the right time.
For those who are experiencing hardship, I will comfort and guide them with kindness.
Without reservation, I will pass on them the causes of their suffering, show them the path to reduce the afflictive emotions and even how to stop all the suffering.
I shall regard their distress as if they are mine, and guide all beings with kind words, equanimity and boundless empathy.

The Immeasurable Empathetic Joy

Delighted in other people’s auspicious moments and received blessings, my heart is in rapture.
I am overjoyed when they are happy and free from suffering;
and when they continually accumulate virtues by practicing wholesome deeds,
They generate the Mind for Enlightenment as their wisdom increases.
Even when others are doing better than me,
I shall not be jealous or envious.
I rejoice in others’ happiness and liberation with equnimity,admiration and endless joy.