by Tiongho Poh

Created on: March 23, 2010   Last Updated: May 08, 2010

Loving-kindness (not carnal love or affection) is Metta in Pali. This Metta possesses a mystic power, and is a miraculous ointment. A person with a pure heart can radiate this beneficent force, which is capable of transforming wild beasts into tame ones, and murderers into saints.  But please be informed that it is easier to transfer or transmit this metta to ghosts, and animals than to the human beings. You don’t believe it? Why do you think the insects and beasts in the jungle can live peacefully with the monks, side by side? The Buddhists were the first people to introduce forest reserves for animals. Buddhist Metta embraces all living beings, seen or unseen, animals included. Metta repels darkness, and thus keeps evils away.

I have heard two groups of people were having a dispute regarding a certain matter. One group wanted to prove it was more powerful than the rival. This was of course the more aggressive group. Let us call it the Aggressor. The next group was not actually a rival. It just had a different belief and a different way of practice. The aggressive group invited the rival to compete in a certain competition. Each group would select its leader to carry out the challenge. These leaders would, without using physical force, knock off the opponent. It was agreed the competition would be carried out on the border of the two countries they came from.

The leaders and the supporters came along on the appointed date and time. Both leaders sat on the ground facing each other, many meters away. The Aggressor was chanting many holy verses and trying to knock off the opponent or to cause him to have a heart failure. His curses could not work because the harmful beings which he called up to cause harm were actually blessed with good wishes and suffused with an overflowing love, by the other party. These malefic spirits lost their power to harm because of the metta they received.

After many minutes of chanting, the other person was just as well and fit, even though he did not chant anything. All he did was mentally transmitting loving kindness to the Aggressor and others in front of him. After all the curses were chanted, the rival was still just as well. But the aggressor suddenly fainted, was gasping for air, and went flat on the ground. The rival had to walk over to revive him. They became friends and the two groups resolved the dispute.

So the best means to face the voodoo practitioners is not to be angry with them, but to transmit metta to them to neutralize their curses. These practitioners have superstitious chants for catching buffaloes, cows, crocodiles, elephants etc. How many of them are rich? What about those rich women. Why are these practitioners not able to catch them?

I live in Southeast Asia where how you clean yourself after working in the toilet is also a sensitive issue. For this reason, the nationalities of these groups cannot be disclosed. The hatred may be rekindled. If you happen to have heard of this incident, or have pictures to support your claim, please remain silent as your further comment would cause only embarrassment and more hatred.

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