Friends:

How to prevent, tranquilize, and cure Enmity?

Ill will is the wishing evil for others: 'May they meet much pain and perish!'
It is a derivative of hate usually provoked by possessive defensiveness...

What to do if such malevolent grudge often recurs?



1: Develop Infinite Friendliness (Metta) by starting daily meditation.
2: Cultivate Endless Pity (Karuna) by regular daily meditation.
3: Increase Universal Equanimity (Upekkha) by daily meditation.
4: Stop all thinking on the disliked object. Attend to a liked object.
5: Know that everyone is then owner of the consequences of
    their actions (Kamma) whether good or bad...



6: Remember the Simile of the Saw... The Blessed Buddha once said:
Friends, even if bandits were to cut you up, savagely, limb by limb,
with a two-handled saw, you should not be angry, but do my bidding:
Remain pervading them with a friendly Awareness imbued with an
all-embracing good-will, kind, rich, expansive, immeasurable & free
from hostility, free from all ill will. Always remembering this very
Simile of the Saw is indeed how you should train yourselves...
Majjhima Nikāya 21



7: All phenomena are only combinations of the Elements of:
Solidity, Fluidity, Heat, Motion, Space and Consciousness...
Then think like this:
"Which of these elements am I angry at and why so?"

Then the evil ill-will may momentarily vanish right on the spot!!!
Remember and repeat this good-will-cure whenever necessary...



Goodwill releases the all too tight knot of anger:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Metta.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Invariable_Fact.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Buddha_on_Noble_Frienship.htm

Friendliness Frees!

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Updated: 31 Jul 2010  http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/How_to_Cure_Ill_Will.htm