Forgiveness

Finally it has sunk in...

John Friend put it this way... It is not the person, thing, or situation that is suffering from your grudge or unforgiving state its you. Why wouldn't I want to stop suffering. Suffering is optional. So then how do I do this because it seems like an impossible task and I am mostly dealing with people who have

betrayed me. How could someone ever forgive someone for killing someone they love? Sounds impossible till John reminds us that we are all connected in this web of life and that would make us all brothers and sisters and when we look at the bigger picture two leaves fighting on the same tree doesn't quiet make much sense. Though when we get close into the details of the situation it seems nearly impossible to even be in the same space.

Looking at the differences, issues, recycling the traumas and seeing nothing but hate makes my nervous system fire and YES, I am totally suffering because of my finite vision of the situation. But it is so hard to keep the bigger vision when looking at someone or something that triggers you, the difference tends to be stronger.

John suggested we start basic and easy... see something anything that is good about the situation or person. When you really look at any person, at their core there is some spark of goodness. It might be clouded but again its just us not being able to see the beauty, goodness and auspicious that is in everything.

Once you a

re able to see one good thing... its contagious. Then you begin to open up even more and see even more goodness. Holding this kind of vision you are able to loosen your grip on that person or situation and the past and fully embrace the present. What a gift it is....

The highest teaching that I learned from this was that I really had no idea how much love and beauty was present right now right here because until I let it go I was so full of hold onto the past. Emptied by forgiveness I am filled with the love that is already present.

This experience unveils the mysterious purna that with relative terms sounds like a crazy scientist trying to explain quantum physics. However, the experience of this attribute of the absolute is very valid and profound. Perhaps that is the only way we can truly understand the absolute is experiencing it by taping into the deepest goodness that runs through us all.