Friendship can cross any Border!

Friendliness can cross any Border!


If friendship between animal beings can cross even remote species borders,
so can and should we humans also make our kind friendship extend beyond
any national, religious, cultural, gender, educational, job, and age border!
Only in this very good way, can we establish a society, where we can sleep
with the doors open, and dance with the children in our arms. So be it :-)



May all creatures, all breathing things,
all beings one and all, without exception,
experience good fortune only.
May they not fall into any harm.
Anguttara Nikaya II, 72



With good will for the entire cosmos,
cultivate a limitless heart & mind:
Beaming above, below, & all around,
unobstructed, without trace of hostility.
Sutta Nipata I, 8

For one who deliberately & aware
develops Universal Friendliness
Seeing the fading away of clinging,
All chains are worn down & broken.
Itivuttaka 27



Let no one deceive another
or despise anyone anywhere,
or through anger or irritation
wish for another to suffer.
Sutta Nipata I, 8



I am a friend of the footless,
I am a friend of all bipeds;
I am a friend of those with four feet,
I am a friend of the many-footed!
Anguttara Nikaya 4.67



As I am, so are others...
As others are, so am I...
Having thus identified self and others,
Never Harm anyone, nor have any abused.
Sutta Nipata 3.710



Among tigers, lions, leopards & bears I lived in the jungle.
No one was frightened of me, nor did I fear anyone.
Uplifted by such universal friendliness, I enjoyed the forest.
Finding great solace in such sweetly silenced solitude…
Suvanna-sama Jataka 540



Train yourself in doing good
that lasts and brings happiness.
Cultivate generosity, the life of peace,
and a mind of infinite universal love.
Itivuttaka 22

The 9th mental Perfection is Friendliness (Mettā):
Just as water refreshes and cleanses both just and unjust persons without
discrimination, so does the perfection of friendliness include both friends
and foes alike, and doesn't enact any distinction, favouritism, or partiality.



More on this fabulously fine Friendliness (Mettā):
Universal_Friendliness, Infinite_and_Divine_Classic, Calm_Kindness,
Released_by_GoodWill, Friendly_plus_Unselfish_equals_Honourable,
The_Grace_of_Goodwill, All-Embracing_Kindness, Unsurpassable_Radiance,
Safe_Medicine, Symbiotic_Sympathy, The-Effective_Saw, Blazing_Goodwill,
Genuine_Goodwill, Evaporated_Enemy, Release_of_Resentment, Hey_Friend,
The_11_Advantages, Loving-Kindness, Cosmic_Goodness, Unbounded_Mind,
Goodness_Galore, Advantageous_is_Friendship, Friendship_is_Universal

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
Bhikkhu Samāhita _/\_ ]
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