The following is from a twitter conversation between Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo and one of her followers:
Questioner to Jetsunma: That’s very true. I have to work hard not to hate. It hurts the hater most of all.
Jetsunma: Here is a method to pacify hatred and too much attachment, which are often combined. This sounds gross but it works!
Okay, let’s find out about this person. First, imagine the eyeballs hanging on a branch. Head sliced thin. One arm near your feet the other about a mile away. Torso also sliced thin. Imagine legs dumped in ocean. Now, where is the one you hate or love? Are they in the hanging eyeballs? The arms here and there? The floating legs? The slices? Where is the person? The mind? What do you hate/love? Can you find them? This will loosen the attachment that causes the emotion by recognizing it’s all just phenomena and fundamentally void. Keep doing it until you feel better and see how odd it all is. You cannot harm the other person or yourself unless the motivation is malevolent. You are trying to learn and heal. That is an ethical and useful method, then dedicate the merit to the healing of you both, and the end of all hate and war.
Best wishes, sending Prayers.
OM MANI PEDME HUNG! OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SO HA! Peace.
Questioner: That’s a great method! Also reminds that all is fleeting except for eternity itself? Thanks I will remember.
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