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Metta is Better: Our Loving Kindness Benefits Ourselves, Not Only Others | Ajahn Dhammasiha
RE the practice of Mettā (= Loving Kindness; Unconditional Good Will to All Beings without Distinction), Ajahn Dhammasiha points out that we should treat people that are angry like we treat people that have fallen sick:
When we encounter someone suffering from flu, or perhaps even disabled in a wheelchair, we usually do not feel angry at them for being sick.
Instead, we rather feel compassion, and an urge to help them, or at least to treat them especially kindly.
Ideally, we even try to help them to recover from their sickness.
Similarly, when we encounter anyone suffering from 'mental…
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