Forgiveness Is A Spiritual Path
There are so many religions and philosophies - a whole world to choose from.
The Tibetan Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, famously said, “My religion is kindness.” For me, my religion is forgiveness.
Forgiveness is saturated with kindness. It also welcomes deep honesty and a compassionate look at the difficulties we create together in this life. Focusing past pain and trauma, we forgive anyway. Why? To directly experience peace and freedom.
Forgiveness is the ultimate energetic transmission of soul friendship - both with ourselves and with our brothers and sisters throughout the world.
As I’ve explored in earlier posts, what I mean by “forgiveness” is not traditional forgiveness, which assumes there is a victim forgiving a perpetrator because a sin was committed. Instead, it is the forgiveness that is expertly and exhaustively delineated in A Course In Miracles, and also offered in Colin Tipping’s work of Radical Forgiveness.
Forgiveness is the voluntary realization that on the level of truth, no sin was ever committed Inside this constant Reality, we are ALL equal, eternal and wise beings made of light, and nothing wrong ever happened.
(This is not to say that there aren’t earthly consequences for committing violence - there are, and there need to be. The pain of violence can be healed for everyone involved, including the offering of community support, education and compassion. Having worked in prisons, I understand that we can’t skip these steps. All levels need to be included here.)
With forgiveness, we release the emotional constriction of guilt and shame that goes along with any attack…both our own and others’.
This is why forgiveness may be seen as a spiritual path. Every time I forgive, I realize the edges are friendly, and all my misery is self-created (no matter what it looks like). I open up to conscious awareness of my eternal nature as divine love.
With each act of forgiveness, I rise in love - shedding fear and the mistaken perception of being separate from my world and my human family.
I’ve noticed that when I forgive, I’m much more intimate with this moment. It’s like I’m molting a layer of skin, and everything feels fresh and new. I’m literally taking off the veils….doing a lovely strip tease and getting naked before God, and before myself, and before the whole of creation.
This is a very juicy spiritual path. It’s the only path I want …full of revelation, release, healing and inspiration. How about you? Are you kind and juicy…kinda juicy?
