When I think of an enemy I get angry
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Letting go of ill will
Anyway, to get back to you and that difficult person and your meditation practice… Being aware of this distinction between feeling and emotion allows us to become comfortable with the discomfort of unpleasant feeling without giving rise to ill will.
We can learn, through the practice of mindfulness, to simply sit with feelings of discomfort so that we have an opportunity to experience lovingkindness for the person we have difficulty with rather than the habitual ill will that tends to arise. There’s a gap between feeling and emotion in which we can choose our emotional responses.
When we lose our mindfulness and ill will does arise, then we can become aware of that and choose to let go of it as soon as we’re able to. With practice our mindfulness cannot but grow stronger, and our positive emotions cannot but develop and unfold.
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