Metta (Loving Kindness) to All and Everyone, Rejecting No One | Ajahn Dhammasiha
Channel: Dhamma Talks at Dhammagiri
Date: 2021-11-28

Ajahn Dhammasiha encourages us to make our Loving Kindness truly unlimited ('appamañña'):
We enclude absolutely all beings, making no distinctions, rejecting no one.
We radiate unconditional loving kindness, whether they are humans, or animals, or ghosts, or hell beings, or devas/angels/deities;
Whether cute like a koala, or ugly like cockroaches and canetoads;
Whether they like us or hate us;
Whether they respond to our loving kindness, or ignore us;
Whether Buddhist, or Atheist, or Christian, or Hindu, or Muslim, or Indigenous religion, or Jewish, or Daoist, or even Satanist;
Whether enlightend or ignorant fools;
Whether far or near, close family or from distant galaxies;
Our Mettā goes to everyone without barriers or restrictions.

Ajahn also talks about the story of Queen Sāmāvati, the foremost of the Buddha's disciples in the practice of Loving Kindness.
She even radiated unconditional loving kindness when her husband, King Udena, in a fit of rage aimed a war bow at her, threatening to kill her. Her Mettā was so strong that the king was unable to harm her.
This is an extreme example, but there's also a metaphorical meaning: Many couples would know the situation when the spouses are aiming the arrows of poisenous words at each other's hearts. With strong Mettā, these verbal attacks would not be able to cause harm. 

Mettā will make all relationships and interaction much smoother.
And we ourselves are the first beneficiary or our loving kindness:
It simply feels good to wish well to all beings.


 
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