People often think that hate is related to love, that love and hate are opposites of the same coin and that love can turn into hate. This is common misunderstanding about love & hate. Love cannot turn into anything, love just IS. Hate, on the other hand, is the highest form of egoism. When one feels hate, ego is there with 100%. Hate is the result of one’s ego being hurt a lot and that pain usually comes from desire.
There are no valid reasons to hate people but there are plenty of reasons to feel compassion for them. Hating someone seems not only waste of energy but also inability to see that one, not the other, is responsible for the pain. That requires giving up scapegoats, giving up self-pride and giving up concepts of wrongdoing & forgiveness.
What about anger, how is that related to hate? I would put it this way: anger is moment full of ego while hate is carrying that moment with you. One stops all anger and hate by constant mind observation – by awareness. It’s a start if one can fast exintguish flames when they have appeared but it becomes mastery only when one is catched with a matches in the hand.
Herman Hesse expressed it in the following way:
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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