Our meditation group has been working with metta practice for months but there's this unspoken tension because some of us are still angry about past hurts between group members, and we're all trying to generate loving-kindness while carrying these grudges that nobody wants to acknowledge.
More people experience this than they realize.
Attempting to cultivate universal love while harboring specific resentments creates a fundamental spiritual contradiction.
“Where Are You with Metta — Buddhist loving-kindness?”
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