It begins sending loving thoughts to yourself, loved ones, acquaintances, all beings and eventually you enemies...
Easier said then done...
It's always easy to send happy thoughts to people whom you love..
but what if you hate your enemy and secretly wish misfortunes befall them...
Like in cases where that person caused you to lose your job? or your wife is cheating on you with them or worst still.. they killed the person you cherished most...
What then? Would you still be able to generate metta towards them?
Or would the heart feel immense pain at the thought of them?
Why is there pain? due to injustice? righteousness?
lack of understanding?
Well.. i guess a good way to contemplate on it is that certain karma is causing events to unfold..
And it's always better to clear it now... then later..
Contemplate on who is feeling the pain...
Why? what? how? From where?
try to over come the anger
Then send the metta...
But still.... take the precautions to prevent bad incidents from happening again...
Being ok with the enemy does not mean... let them take you for a ride...
I vote for Metta with action and self defense....
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