Sending metta to fictional charcters ?
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If anger arises while you watching a movie or playing a computer game, it is a good idea that you are aware of your mental state.
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Metta is practitioner's consciousness that thinking to make happy consciousness arise in the other lives. (sukhΔ« attΔnaαΉ pariharantu)
Fictional charcters never have happy consciousness arising.
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It could actually be unskillful as you are strengthening your ignorance to think that such characters are real.
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