The Four Godly Thoughts Expanded

First Variation

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.

 

The Mahāggata Expansion

Mahāggata (Wide Gate) Expansion, Widespread, leading to Mahāggata 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 ... .

 

Friendly Vibrations — Third Expansion

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 four Directions,
Or with the Gods of the Chamber of the Three and Thirty,
Or in Yama's Paradise,
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 Mahā 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 (Ākāsānañcāyatana),
Or in the Realm of Consciousness (Viññāṇānañcāyatana),
Or in the Realm of No Things There (Ākiñcaññāyatana),
Or in the Realm of Neither-perception-nor-non-perception (N'evasannānasannāyatana),
Or in the arahatta manner, Nibbāna,

May they all Feel Friendly Vibrations, Sympathetic Vibrations, Happiness at the Happiness's of Others, and Objective Detachment.

 

Obo's Succinct Variation

"May I act with friendliness in thought, word and deed
towards all living things including myself,
whether far or near,
in whatsoever of the ten directions they may abide;
may I sympathize with their pains and sorrows;
may I empathize with their situations;
and may I be at all times objectively detached."