The eighth discourse of the Uraga chapter of the Suttanipāta, more popularly known as the Karaṇīyametta Sutta, teaching boundless goodwill toward all beings and included among the protective Paritta texts.

A brief discourse teaching that the cultivation of goodwill (mettā) brings great benefit.

A discourse on four kinds of person who radiate goodwill, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity in all directions, and who are reborn in various Brahma worlds, disciples among them never to return.

A discourse similar to the preceding one, in which such persons are said to be reborn in the Pure Abodes of the Brahma world.

A discourse on the emancipation of mind attained through goodwill, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity, and the signless, together with the abandoning of the conceit ‘I am.’

A discourse on nine qualities that make the observance of the fast day fruitful — the eight precepts together with the radiating of thoughts of goodwill.

A discourse enumerating eleven advantages that come from developing goodwill toward all beings.