Do unto yourself as you would be seen doing unto others. All the
proclamations of piety, the claims of compassion, the façades of forgiveness;
must fall clear upon the eye turned inward, upon the purity deep inside your own self.
It is of no consequence how well you seem to judge people; you can only
rely on your limited field of experience. It is of no value that you show much
love and caring if somewhere inside you are counting the returns on your
investment.
Forgive completely. Do not just forgive enough to convince yourself of
your magnanimity. Once forgiven, the original sin should lose entity entirely.
It’s like when you've watched something dirty on a shared computer. After you’re done, the original sin should not be traceable. You don’t ‘Delete’ something and leave it in the ‘Recycle Bin’ to be ‘restored’ at will. No, you first Delete and send it to the Recycle Bin, then you ‘Delete Forever’ or ‘Empty the Recycle Bin’. But there are too many logs and nets and webs and paths, so you then go for the ‘Search’ button, and fill in relevant words of what you wish to erase from memory; and you watch in surprise as the little doggy wags its tail and files that contain a reference to your ‘wrong’ keep popping up. Then you Delete all these files, and Empty the Recycle Bin.
It’s like when you've watched something dirty on a shared computer. After you’re done, the original sin should not be traceable. You don’t ‘Delete’ something and leave it in the ‘Recycle Bin’ to be ‘restored’ at will. No, you first Delete and send it to the Recycle Bin, then you ‘Delete Forever’ or ‘Empty the Recycle Bin’. But there are too many logs and nets and webs and paths, so you then go for the ‘Search’ button, and fill in relevant words of what you wish to erase from memory; and you watch in surprise as the little doggy wags its tail and files that contain a reference to your ‘wrong’ keep popping up. Then you Delete all these files, and Empty the Recycle Bin.
Forgive like that, completely; leaving no chance of retracting.
Freedom lies in Forgiveness. Pick out the original sin from each nook
and cranny and remote crevice of your being; if it refuses to come out,
‘Quarantine’ it, refuse to look at it, close off all access to it, and in due
course of time it will be Deleted automatically. The sin, the sinner, the hurt,
the grief must not get pride of place in your being.
We are wronged till the day we choose to keep suffering from the wrong. The
perpetrator is happy in his own world - or maybe not so happy - but our inner
suffering makes no difference to him; unless he can observe it and glean a
feeling of satisfaction at having brought it about.
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