Show kindness towards those who are unkind

Many of the worldly egoistic ideas, beliefs, values, and practices might teach people about "An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth."

Or, "If someone hits you on one side of the face, you should ask them to hit the other side of the face as well."

These two extremities of 'understanding/action/reaction' are deriving from egoism as well as empowering egoism.

Meanwhile, the teachings and practice of yoga and/or buddhism is not about that, as by doing so, it doesn't help the minds to be free from ignorance and the ignorant thinking and behavior, but it is empowering the ignorance and the ignorant thinking and behavior in oneself and in others.

It's about -

Show kindness towards those who are unkind.

Show unselfishness towards those who are selfish.

Show generosity towards those who are stingy.

Show openness towards those who are closed-minded.

Show contentment towards those who are discontented.

Show accommodation towards those who are non-accommodating.

Show calmness and gentleness towards those who are agitated and violent.

Show respect towards those who are disrespectful towards others.

Show patience towards those who are impatient.

And so on.

This is the middle path of selfless wisdom and compassion.

The minds that are unkind, selfish, stingy, closed-minded, discontented, non-accommodating, agitated and violent, disrespectful towards others, or impatient, is because they don't know how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient, and that is because they don't know what is kindness, unselfishness, generosity, openness, contentment, accommodation, calmness and gentleness, respect, and patience.

By showing them all these qualities can allow them to have all these qualities (reflection) to be reflecting upon, either wittingly or unwittingly.

Without attachment, judgment, intention, or expectation.

Let the minds to be what they are, regardless of whether they will reflect upon all these qualities, or not, whether they want to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient, or not.

All that (conscious and unconscious constructive evolution) can only happen, when the mind knows how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient towards itself.

The mind doesn't know how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient towards others, is because it doesn't even know how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, or be patient towards itself.

Coming from the mind itself, learning how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient towards itself, towards its own selfless and impermanent, limited and conditional existence and function.

Only when the mind knows how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient towards itself, then naturally and effortlessly, it will also know how to be kind, be unselfish, be generous, be opened, be contented, be accommodating, be calmed and gentle, be respectful, and be patient towards all the others.

More importantly, regardless of whether the minds are wise or ignorant, kind or unkind, selfish or unselfish, generous or stingy, opened-minded or closed-minded, contented or discontented, accommodating or non-accommodating, calmed and gentle or agitated and violent, respectful or non-respectful, and patient or impatient, all are selfless, all are impermanent, all are merely momentarily existing, ceaselessly changing, and eventually ceased existing in this space that doesn't belong to anyone or anything.

All those agreeable or disagreeable qualities, are also selfless and impermanent, limited and conditional.

They are not the goal of the yoga and/or buddhism practice.

However, the quality of kindness, unselfishness, generosity, openness, contentment, accommodation, calmness and gentleness, respect, and patience, are important elements that can help to quiet the restless impure modification of the mind on the path of self-inquiry and self-realization.

It is not 'I', and there is no 'I'.

Transcending, or going beyond all kinds of agreeable and disagreeable qualities, will enable the mind to realize selflessness, to realize what is ignorance and suffering, to know Thyself, and be free.

Inquire towards the truth of everything.