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the Buddhists do metta meditation wherein they dedicate merit to all sentient beings

they go through first with the elders, thinking of as many as they wish, wishing them all good health, complete illumination, long life, and great love, then the peers, then the youngers

then the enemies of the elders
your enemies
and finally all sentient beings

it is done 7 times thusly

so one aspect is to dedicate as much thoughts of compassion and love at the shadow figure that you can, because if it has love in it, ANYWHERE it cannot then be a shadow figure, and if it does not have love, is not of the same composition of love, it cannot coexist and should more or less vanish

now i saw some things just yesterday that were similar, and I thought about ignoring, but decided to pray that it and all sentient beings are forever liberated from suffering, then ignored it.... my perspective is as if through 2 tvs, rather removed, still images with some degree of realism, but largely malleable by expectations

it is a fine stage for me to be at currently, as it allows me to program my subconscoius and eliminate these things without directly perceiving them in totality, such as via astral merger.

also observe GIGO, garbage in = garbage out, so don't watch horror movies or partake in any form of violent culture, digress in thoughts about death no matter how "innocent" such as the various multitudes of jokes people make such as "oh i was so mad i could shoot him" and all sorts of things like that, without also judging them, trying to let them pass if you do encounter.

this is an aspect of the fifth precept of Buddhism (according to Thichi Nhat Hanh, and to me)

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