Kindness Chant

DeKALB - The three Burmese Buddhist monks slowly approached a podium Tuesday afternoon and removed their sandals. Two took hold of microphones between their palms as they stood at the Martin Luther King Commons on the Northern Illinois University campus. Then the monks - who hail from the Ratanaram Buddhist Temple in Rockford - started chanting the Metta Sutra, a scripture that preaches unconditional love and kindness. Sandar Wynn, an NIU library assistant who was born in Burma, now called Myanmar, translated the Metta Sutra before the monks started chanting it. &#8220Let none deceive another or despise any being of any state,” she said. &#8220Let none through anger or ill will wish harm upon another. Even as a mother protects with her life