At the end of each day, someone were to play a video of you back to yourself and you could see it all, you would wince quite often and say "Ugh!"You probably would see that you do all those things for which you criticize all those people you don't like in your life, all those people you judge. Basically, making friends with yourself is making friends with all those people too, because when you come to have this kind of honesty, gentleness and goodheartedness, combined with clarity about yourself, there's no obstacle to feeling loving-kindness for others as well.
So the Ground of Maitri is ourselves!
* Maitri towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything, change ourselves or become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. It is accepting ourselves just as we are right now without any judgements.
