Recognizing enmities is the first step.

Transforming them, the second. 

It happens in an instant.

We meet someone, and seemingly unfounded feelings overwhelm us. We don’t like him. We don’t trust him. He didn’t do anything, and yet we pull back.

Actually, such feelings are founded. They’re triggered by causes planted in the store consciousness. Though we’re in a different lifetime, we intuit our old enmity. And we take up where we left off: distrusting, disliking, even hating.

Having recognized an enmity, we need to transform our averse feelings because the last thing we want is to have bitter feelings intensify. How do we transform our feelings? By reminding ourselves we’re living different lives now. Perhaps our enmity arose from a misunderstanding. What if it was all a mistake? We know we were both ignorant. The other person may still be, but we know better now. We realize what can happen when an enmity worsens.

For both our sakes, we need to let go of the past and find a way back to normalcy.