318 – Loving Your Enemies: Extending Metta Does Not Mean Capitulation

Unlike Jesus, the Buddha didn't explicitly instruct us to "love our enemies." However, he did instruct us to extend goodwill, or Metta, to all beings unconditionally – including, of course, our enemies. In this time of growing divisiveness, what does it really mean to follow this teaching? Most people will admit that nurturing resentment and hatred is probably a bad idea, but on the other hand it feels completely unacceptable to capitulate to – surrender to or stop resisting – those who we perceive as causing harm. Fortunately, there are many benefits to loving our enemies, and doing so does not mean capitulating to them.

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318 – Loving Your Enemies: Extending Metta Does Not Mean Capitulation is an episode from The Zen Studies Podcast by Domyo Burk.

This episode is 36:37 long.

This episode was published on Nov 16, 2025.

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