Practicing Forgiveness

A simple tool for practicing forgiveness is this question:  Whom don’t I trust?

When we ask ourselves to identify beings we don’t trust, we are asking the universe to show us information we have chosen to store away inside us in memories and emotions.  If you try this exercise now you will receive an answer.   The answer is from your inner, infinite wisdom, and you will have your assignment.  This is the person you charged with forgiving.

The next step, which is a very peaceful and calming practice, is assuming the perspective of one who sees the whole world and all its inhabitants.  Try this and see what happens.  

A perspective that views the entire planet requires being out there away from your body in a way, and yet we can see we are still connected to this body with our conscious mind. 

Seeing the whole world and its inhabitants (including our own selves) puts us in touch with the energy that is willing to be everyone and everything…..this is Love.   Simple opening to this possibility brings a response that is universal….an immediate and spontaneous sense of understanding and caring for all beings, including that person you remembered not trusting.

For a second (or longer as we practice) we can experience forgiveness of individuals or groups, by simply opening to the intention of accepting all life as part of us.

In Christianity, this is forgiveness.  In Buddhism this is tonglen.   Peace

No other person can make you less or more

No other person can make you less or more.

You are already whole, perfect complete.   Any experience to the contrary is part of your exploration of the greater self.

As we experiment and search about for peace and comfort and  satisfaction, playing with power and pain, we all wonder about others and their roles in our lives.  Inevitably we imagine other people making us happy or unhappy, more or less.

Assuming there is a deficit in our life,   a loss, brings it into our experience.  When we attribute this thought to someone else’s life, thinking, acting, speaking, we invent a reality that is just not true and contradicts the nature of life.

When we invent realities which contradict life’s loving essence,  life responds with an experience of isolation, pain, sadness, fear.    These uncomfortable emotions are in their essence loving and well intended, guiding us back to being loving of our selves through our thinking.   This includes recognizing our true nature is love, and therefore infinite.

A few reminders…..

Through my conscious unity of my humanity with the Ultimate, the Ultimate brings joy and peace to everyone I meet.

I establish relationship with this person through the Ultimate that is both of us.

I am made of that which becomes all.

My teachers are words and nature, feelings of thoughts floating through, rising and falling with or without my calling becoming just becoming for me and you

I am the rich and the poor

I am all prosperers and all they prosper by.

Be a blessing to self and others by being conscious unity of the  human and the Ultimate, opening its peace and joy to everyone

My greatest joy is in knowing you give yourself completely to everyone, everything.

Delusion, the root of conflict, is mental separation of the human from the Ultimate.

Each delusion is a doorway to unity, a reminder of freedom within the Ultimate.   I accept doubt as a springboard back into the Ultimate unity.

My humanity is constantly and instantaneously balanced by and within the Ultimate

I cannot limit Ultimate love, though I may use it to fashion suffering for myself and others.

calm delight

willing to become all growing, dying, flowering, breathing, singing, moving, flying, swimming, drawing, watching, hearing, enjoying,suffering, discovering, just to be, just to be in calm delight

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Fathers: how to hurt your children in 5 easy steps

 1. Attack your children with your body, words and thoughts.

2. Abandon your children and their mother.

3. Live with them but don’t show them affection and compassion.

4.  Think poorly of yourself

5. Show them very little interest in their unfolding lives

Harmony and yielding

Harmony is universal, suffering individual. 

Harmony inevitably erases the pain of assumed conflict and isolation. No matter how long it takes, the intention of harmony prevails.  Everything returns to the same benevolent will.

Resisting unity is accepting separation.  Accepting separation as anytihng other than temporary play by the Infinite is immediately unpleasant.  Willingness to yield to the wisdom of the whole, taking form endlessly, offers a doorway out of the land of illusory pain.

The unity of the whole, touched wiht our consciousness offers us the use of aspects like harmony to dissolve the illusions of isolation and conflict.

Choosing joy

Joy is always here for us to touch, feel, experience.   

Joy is part of our core nature, which is infinite. 

Use of our infinite nature includes choosing from the infinite number of available choices. 

Choosing shapes our part of the infinite temporarily into whatever form we have chosen.  The existence of this temporary choice is what we call our “experience”.

June 26, 2009

The potential of the day is spreading out

   about and around

       within

  each choiceful thought

      as carefully I select the future

Writing

Here’s writing:

AUTOBIORGRAPHICAL

                  Saving My Soul From the Church 6-22-09

ESSAYS

POETRY

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               Fathers’ day 2009