Page Ninety-Eight, Sayadaw suggests the familiar categories for Lovingkindness meditation of Oneself, a person you like and respect, an indiferrent person and a person you hate, at at the very beginning, only the first two, because with the second two, anger could arise. He also suggests avoiding a person who is already dear, because of the many emotional changes of attachment that may exist.
He also says that although oneself is a good subject for lovingkindess, jhana cannot be developed with oneself as object. Working with oneself lays the groundwork, he says, for seeing others as having the same kinds of desire for happiness, to not want suffering, and so on.
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