For all practical purposes, if all of your enemies were well, happy, and peaceful, they would not be your enemies. If they were free from problems, pain, suffering, affliction, neurosis, psychosis, paranoia, fear, tension, anxiety, etc., they would not be your enemies.
Your practical solution to your having enemies is to help them overcome their problems, so you can live in peace and happiness. In fact, if you can, you should fill the minds of all your enemies with loving-kindness and make all of them realize the true meaning of peace. Therefore, don’t fight with enemies. If enemies attempt to kill us, and we say “we need to protect our homeland” and kill them, isn’t it ridiculous? So you can live in peace and happiness. The more they suffer neurosis, psychosis, fear, tension, anxiety, etc., the more trouble, pain, and suffering they can bring to the world. If you could convert a vicious and wicked person into a holy and saintly individual, you would perform a miracle. Let us cultivate adequate wisdom and loving-kindness within ourselves to convert evil minds to saintly minds. ……………………………………………. When you generate an evil thought toward any being (especially enemies), you suffer first. If you can help these bad people overcome their problems, you will be more peaceful and joyful. If someone is grateful to you, you will feel more joyful. If someone hates you, you must feel uncomfortable. If there is still someone hating us in this universe, what should we do? We should resolve it with loving-kindness. It is just like Kung Fu fighting: someone strikes with one kind of force, while you counter with another. He sends the energy of hatred; you respond with the energy of loving-kindness. The energy of loving-kindness can transform the energy of hatred. If your loving-kindness is strong enough, you can transform his hatred. Only by transforming his hatred can you reduce the harm he brings to you. Because his hatred can influence you. Before the seed of hatred in your own mindstream is completely extinguished, he can still hurt you. His hatred can ignite your own seed of hatred, and you will be harmed. Since there is still the seed of hatred in your eighth consciousness, once his hatred arises, it immediately triggers your own hatred and harms you too. At that time, if you can purely use loving-kindness to transform him, you will succeed. This is practice. Without loving-kindness, you cannot unfold your meditation; you cannot truly carry it out.
