Ouch!  This one can sometimes be a tough one.  Most of us understand the folly of carrying around hatred for someone.  Our carrying it around doesn’t really do anything except hurt us, but to swing the whole magilla all the way around to loving?  Well, that’s a different story.

But this is what we are taught.  “Love your enemies”, the Master said.

A very wise woman once taught me how.  I can’t say I use this technique enough – sometimes in the middle of emotion I forget until the problem becomes so all-encompassing that I have to really get up and do something about it.  About then, the fog of hatred in my brain begins to lift and usually I’m able to turn the situation around pretty quickly by quietly sitting down with myself and going through the following procedure.

I create in my imagination an empty white room.  In that room I stand my so-called enemy before me.  I then go down the list of all the things I don’t like about him or her.  Were they dishonest with me?  Did they say bad things about me?  Whatever it is that I don’t like about them, I look at and list.

I then take all of those things and stick them over in the right corner of the room in a great heap.  I separate them out from the individual.  I then turn back to the individual before me once again and look to see if there’s anything else that needs separating.  I make sure I strip away from the enemy all undesirables and stack them over in the right corner of the room.

Then I place that free and clear individual before me over in the left corner of the room – far away from the pile of junk on the right.

It’s OK to dislike the pile of junk on the right.  It’s OK to be wary of it.  It’s good to distrust the erroneous nature of all the negative stuff.  Don’t be naive and think you have to love error or the work of the devil.  The whole pile is to be tossed aside, seen for the mistake that it is and negated.

Don’t love the pile.

But then turn back to what’s left of the individual over in the left corner.  If you did your job right, what’s left is who this individual truly is – the perfect child of God.  That’s the ‘enemy’ we’re supposed to love.

If we look closely at this shining light of a person we see that there’s no sense of enemy left.  All that is over on the pile on the right.

Keep looking at the perfect child on the left.  See his or her immortal qualities of goodness.  You should no longer have to look through anything.  All that stuff’s over on the pile and you’ve dealt with it and eradicated it from both of your lives.

Now, if you’ve controlled your imagination firmly enough, you may love this individual.  After all, what’s not to love?  Find something?  Stick it over on the right pile, but keep looking left.  Focus on the perfect principles of this individual.  Stick to the ideal Man.  See the Christ or the Buddha nature in this soul and control your own mind so that you see nothing but the purity of this individual.

Stay focused on that no matter what.  Trust that you’ve done your job with the junk on the left and become riveted on the perfect light of the individual before you.

If you can control your own mind, not the other person, but yourself, you can change the seeming reality.  You can truly erase the negative and your experience with this will absolutely change because you changed your mind.

No longer do you have to carry hatred for one of God’s creatures.  That only hurts you anyway.

The solution is to stay focused on the individual on the left until there is no left and no right, but only the pure and perfect individual before you.  Then love that being.  That being is the Christ in man and woman – the same Christ that lives in you.  That being is the spiritual man that we all seek within ourselves.

The saying goes, “We are all one”.  Well there we are together – standing in that room.  Standing in the love.  Loving our enemies.

Go for it!