Sabbe sattā sukhi hontu is a Pali phrase which means “Might all beings be blissful”.
It’s not, correctly talking, a mantra, however is a chant that’s utilized in precisely the identical method as a mantra.
Not like most mantras, it has a particular grammatical which means.
Sabbe = every, each, or all
Sattā = dwelling beings, creatures, sentient and rational beings, individuals
Sukhi = blissful
Hontu = could they be
The mantra has a sexy tune (there’s a recording beneath), and it’s pretty to chant this on the finish of a interval of the metta bhavana (improvement of lovingkindness) observe. It makes a phenomenal group chant as properly.
Exterior of formal meditation, you possibly can chant this mantra whereas strolling, driving, or whereas engaged in another such exercise. It could actually assist for those who maintain your consideration centered in your coronary heart, and in addition for those who think about that gentle is flowing out of your coronary heart and touching different individuals.
Sabbe satta bhavantu sukhitatta which means
If you happen to’re within the English which means of the very related phrase, sabbe satta bhavantu sukhitatta, it additionally interprets as “Might all beings be blissful.” This explicit phrase is discovered within the well-known Metta Sutta.
There are lots of different Pali chants which can be related and which can be additionally carefully associated to the observe of lovingkindness, but none appear to be as frequent as sabbe satta sukhi hontu, which actually expresses the essence of lovingkindness.
Variants embrace:
- Sabbe satta avera hontu (could all beings be free from enmity and hazard)
- Sabbe satta abyapajjha hontu (could all beings be free from psychological struggling)
- Sabbe satta anigha hontu (could all beings be free from bodily struggling)
- Sabbe satta dukkha muccantu (could all beings be free from struggling)
- Sabbe satta sukhi attanam pariharantu (could all beings shield themselves joyfully)
Click on beneath to take heed to an MP3 model:
Pronunciation notes:
- a is pronounced as u in lower
- ā (or aa) is pronounced as a in father
Sabbe satta sukhi hontu is the important thing of the event of lovingkindness and compassion. Though most religions educate us to like our neighbors and even our enemies, it’s typically laborious to know precisely how to try this. Buddhism, being a really sensible custom, gives a variety of practices, together with the event of lovingkindness (metta bhavana), and the event of compassion (karuna bhavana) meditations. Every of those practices helps us to develop a more healthy and extra loving relationship to oneself and others.
Metta is usually translated as love in addition to lovingkindness, and the essence of affection on this sense is that we acknowledge that every one beings, identical to us, want to expertise happiness and don’t want to expertise struggling. Metta is an empathetic sense of caring for others’ well-being. It’s for that purpose that sabbe satta sukhi hontu (“could all beings be blissful”) is taken into account to specific the center of the lovingkindness observe.
In cultivating lovingkindness we generally repeat phrases reminiscent of “Might all beings be properly; Might all beings be blissful; Might all beings be free from struggling.” The gathered impact of these phrases, when they’re mindfully repeated, is to create a real sense of caring.
