Forgiving Path

Forgiving path: 

it's a forgiving path, completely and naturally of its own accord, and with no effort required of our conscious participation. It's just how life flows. This seems hard for us to follow, and for quite sometime it's often difficult to truly understand - that life itself has no concerns other than its own continuation, bearing no grudges, and only cares for what this moment holds. Everything is completely surrendered the very moment it occurs, forgiven in a way, and life continues in its motion. Our great forgetting is that this is exactly what we are, life, motion too, and that we are constantly moving on, already past another moment's slights and grudges, arriving fresh to the innocence of now, always and only, now. It's that easy to forgive...

simply remembering we're alive, life, motion.

already moving on. 

it's a forgiving path, and life adapts to all it receives without malice in return, continuing - and our gift is that we're able to gain from the experience of each moment, that all is forgiven and perhaps we're a bit wiser now too, arriving still to our original innocence, yet with greater clarity gained as well. Life proceeds from here, this point of insight now an integral part of our being, with no need to revisit for proof of what we've learned. 

so how do we follow this path?

why does forgiveness seem so hard?

and the answer is the same for both questions - that it's already done, everything has been forgiven completely on its own, life in charge of every detail. We're always on the path. But what we ask for is rituals, a performance to convince us that life is indeed moving on, and that we belong fully to the continuous reality of this present moment. My own practice is meditation, recalling a mantra through countless moments of forgetting, not putting any effort to sustain its presence, but gently, patiently, returning to its call. It seems unrelated to life's concerns, not practical in dealing with past events or future apprehensions. Yet it's here that I see my mind as motion, thoughts moving on their own, and offering me no real control. My practice is returning, giving no effort to the minds barrage, always back to the simplicity of the mantra, and everything happens on its own, stillness revealed as the source of motion, calm remaining through every thought-fueled storm, forgiveness being nothing more than life's continuation. I see that there is no real path to follow, just this, what's already happening, and if at times it seems difficult, than that too belongs. 

so we don't always need to immediately remember, our innocence remaining present, available, unmarred by our concerns. 

life, is our forgiving path...

happening complete on its own.

~

Peace, Eric