All The Way

All the way: 

eventually, everything's forgiven, and the world is seen a different way. That's the promise at least, or the hope that we hold out for as we practice forgiveness. There might be the thought that as we proceed though life this way, transforming all that we perceived with a gentle focus on letting go of the fear that we've projected - there might be a thought that we will arrive somewhere, enlightened and aware, perhaps being truly at peace with ourselves and the world. 

a realization of who we truly are.

everything forgiven. 

one.

I'm not sure if we need that hope, or if it even serves our highest value. For me, I'm without goal now, finally, being completely at home within my practice. I'm just happy to forgive. Zen master Dogen Zenji has a wonderful thought on this, that the practice of meditation is not a method for the attainment of self realization - it is enlightenment itself. Or as St. Catherine of Siena said: 

all the way to heaven is heaven. 

forgiving is the path of peace. 

It's enlightenment itself. 

 so really, there's no endgame to our practice, life continues with its frustrations, pain, and sorrows. And we'll continue to forgive, on going, committed...

bringing peace along the way.

all the way to heaven.

~

Peace, Eric 

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