《经集》蛇品的第八经，更广为人知的名称是《慈爱经》，教导对一切众生怀抱无量慈心，是护卫经（护经）之一。

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.

一部简短的经，教导修习慈心（mettā）能带来极大利益。

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

一部经，讲述四种以慈、悲、喜、舍遍满十方的人，他们死后生于各梵天界，若为佛弟子则不再返回人间。

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.

与前经相似的一部经，说明这类人死后生于梵天的净居天。

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

一部经，讲述透过慈、悲、喜、舍及无相而获得心解脱，并断除“我是”之慢。

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.’

一部经，讲述使布萨斋戒圆满有益的九种条件——八戒加上遍满慈心的修习。

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.

一部经，列举修习对一切众生慈心所带来的十一种利益。

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