A Beautiful Forgiveness

A beautiful Forgiveness: 

my formative years were steeped in Christian values, attending Catholic school from first grade up to my freshman year of high school before leaving for a public institution in my remaining three years. My family wasn't overly religious, only occasionally going to mass, but none the less I felt a strong connection to the church - or more truly said, to the deep mystery that it offered. 

and Easter was my favorite holiday.

resurrection. 

that Jesus rose from the dead and that my sins were to be forgiven. 

it's a beautiful message, and I felt deeply the suffering that was involved, Jesus being forced to carry his own cross, whipped and mocked before nailed and left to slowly perish in the heat of the sun. Except Jesus didn't wither, he forgave from the cross and bestowed the ultimate act of empathy, whispering to his father that his torturers did not know the true extend of their actions, they were ignorant of their most basic behavior. 

a beautiful forgiveness. 

years later and I discovered this same psychological truth in yoga, avidya, the root foundation of the kleshas that explains all of our suffering in life. Avidya is translated from Sanskrit to mean ignorance, explaining that we are unaware of being the cause of our own suffering. We know not what we do, quite literally so, blind to our aversions and attachments, colliding through life a deep fear of death driving our behavior, and oblivious of mistaken belief in an ego based reality. 

we're in need of a resurrection. 

a beautiful forgiveness. 

and that's what yoga offers us, a path for our salvation, not for the sake of souls and eternity in heaven, but for this life now, recognizing that we are reborn within each instant. An Easter for every moment we're alive. That's the lesson from the cross, we're ignorant of our action, and forgiving ourselves of this ignorance gives us an opportunity of rebirth to a new insight of going forward now into a greater light of true awareness. 

Jesus, from the cross, offers us this vision of a reality.

a clear seeing of our awareness. 

a beautiful forgiveness. 

~

Peace, Eric 

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