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The Four Godly Thoughts Expanded
In this variation of this meditation practice, imagine the class of creatures, and pervade the entire class as you can envision it with your thoughts.
May all Beings Feel Friendly Vibrations.
Whether they walk on two legs
Or four legs
Or many legs
Or slither over the ground
Or burrow beneath the ground
Or swim
Or fly
Visible
Or Inniinvisible
Great or Small
Above, On This Plane, or Below.
May they All Feel Friendly Vibrations
Repeat for Sympathetic Vibrations,
Happiness at the Happiness' of Others,
and Objective Detachment
MAHAGGATA (Wide Gate) Expansion, Widespread, leading to Mahaggata Freedom of Mind
Sit down, flop forward, rise up erect, breath in 1, 2, 3, One Two Three Deep Deep Deep Satisfying Breaths, and, remembering to put a look of Satisfaction on your face, Let It All Go, and then, pervade the World with friendly vibrations, beginning with an area of limited extent and repeating the incantation expanding the area in manageable increments, for example:
"May I feel Friendly Vibrations"
"May all beings in this Residence feel Friendly Vibrations"
"May all beings in this Town feel Friendly Vibrations."
"May all beings in this County feel Friendly Vibrations."
"May all beings in this State feel Friendly Vibrations."
"May all beings in this Nation feel Friendly Vibrations."
"May all beings in this Continent feel Friendly Vibrations."
"May all beings in this Hemisphere feel Friendly Vibrations."
"May all beings in this World feel Friendly Vibrations."
"May all beings in this Solar System feel Friendly Vibrations."
"May all beings in this Galaxy feel Friendly Vibrations."
"May all beings in this Universe feel Friendly Vibrations."
"May all beings in the 10-Fold Universe System, 100-Fold Universe System, 1000-Fold Universe System, 10,000-Fold Universe System, 100,000-Fold Universe System, Thrice a 100,000-fold Universe System, and so forth, feel Friendly Vibrations, Sympathetic Vibrations, Happiness at the Happinesses of Others, and Objective Detachment."
Here is the Ancient Tradition:
1 area the size of the root [mula] of a tree . . . 2 mulas . . . 3 mulas
1 area the size of a village field (about 6 acres) . . . 2 . . . 3
1 area the size of a Kingdom . . . 2 . . . 3
an area like the sea-girt earth
May all beings feel Friendly Vibrations.
Whether they reside in Niraya Hells,
Or Animal Bodies
Or Ghostly Realms
Or Demonic Forms
Or as Men (MANUSA)
Or with the Four Kings of the 4 Directions
Or with the Gods of the Chamber of the Three and Thirty
Or in Yama's Paridise
Or with The gods of the Heaven of Delight
Or with The Gods of Creation
Or with The Gods of Manipulation
Or in Brahma's Party
Or in the Paradise of Maha Brahma
Or in the Realm of Radiance (Abhassara Realm)
Or in the Realm of Luminescence (Subhakinna Realm)
Or in the Realm of No-perception (Asanna Realm)
Or in the Pure Abodes (The suddhavasa Realms: Aviha, Attappa, Sudassa, Sudassi, and Akanittha)
Or in the Realm of Space (AKASANANCAYATANA)
Or in the Realm of Consciousness (VINNANANCAYATANA)
Or in the Realm of No Things There (AKINCANNAYATANA)
Or in the Realm of Neither-perception-nor-non-perception (N'EVASANNANASANNAYATANA)
Or in the ARAHATTA MANNER, NIBBANA,
May they all Feel Friendly Vibrations, Sympathetic Vibrations, Happiness at the Happiness's of Others, and Objective Detachment.
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