Mettā on Clubhouse

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🙏❤️💎 For enmity by enmity
Is never in this world allayed;
It is allayed by amity —
That is an ancient principle. Loving-kindness can be maintained in being towards a person with whom you are annoyed: this is how annoyance with them can be removed. Compassion can be maintained in being towards a person with whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance with them can be removed. Onlooking equanimity can be maintained in being towards a person with whom you are annoyed; this too is how annoyance with them can be removed. The forgetting and ignoring of a person with whom you are annoyed can be practiced; this too is how annoyance with them can be removed. Ownership of deeds in a person with whom you are annoyed can be concentrated upon thus: "This good person is owner of their deeds, heir to their deeds, their deeds are the womb from which they are born, their deeds are their kin for whom they are responsible, their deeds are their refuge, they are heir to their deeds, be they good or bad." This too is how annoyance with them can be removed. These are the five ways of removing annoyance, by which annoyance can be entirely removed in a bhikkhu when it arises within.