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

The friend who is a helpmate,
the friend in happiness and woe,
the friend who gives good counsel,
the friend who sympathies too –
these four as friends the wise behold
and cherish them devotedly
as does a mother her own child.

As a mother would risk her life
to protect her child, her only child,
even so should one cultivate a limitless heart
with regard to all beings

“As I am, so are others;
as others are, so am I.”
Having thus identified self and others,
harm no one nor have them harmed