Loving Kindness Is Not What We Think

There are two wisdom-aspects to kindness: peaceful and wrathful.

The peaceful aspect heals with clarity.
The wrathful aspect protects boundaries, confronts harm, and heals with clarity.

Both are forms of deep caring, but one soothes while the other intervenes.
We can either hum along in harmony, or change the key to stop being a hum-along. 🙂

Kindness and compassion (bodhichitta) are expressed to match the unique needs of different situations. Neither aspect stems from self-aggrandisement or anger; both are pure expressions to eliminate suffering.

Nowadays, the distinction between the two is confused,
and we get upset about everything.

Kindness can sometimes appear to be annoying,
so we tread carefully because people love to argue.

Loving kindness through clarity stops this self-harm.