It's Never About

It's never about: 

it's never about why we should forgive someone, as that puts us directly back within the mindset that there's anything from the past that could ever truly do us harm. Forgiveness is always about returning to the innocence of the present moment, free of past events, and resting in the peace that's found right now. We forgive in order to recognize this freedom.

as it's never about the past,

nor anyone else.

forgiveness is for each of us alone.

a simple gift of healing.

~

Peace, Eric 

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No Matter How Often

No matter how often: 

so it comes down to how do we practice, letting go of what feels like an unforgivable act against us - and I wish I had an easy answer here, that I could offer a simple method that wipes all of our suffering away with a mantra or an effortless gesture of forgiveness. 

but I don't.

there are methods of course, with some being very effective to helping us change perspective and arriving at a true sense of forgiveness. The workbook in A Course in Miracles has several exercises on how to do this deep inner work that heals our wounds. Yet for me, it's more about working in through each moment, with whatever grievance appears no matter when it might have happened, or how much suffering that it holds. It's all just part of a continuous practice, seeing past the illusion of timelines and returning to the innocence of the present moment.

everything is already forgiven here.

right now.

and there's just memories to let go of...

no matter how often they appear.

I return my heart to love.

~

Peace, Eric

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A Very Simply Practice

A very simple Practice: 

my practice is forgiveness, simplified now, that through long years of meditation and yoga, study of many traditions, it just comes down to the present moment and all that I'm willing to surrender. I consider this as practice in the literal meaning of the word, working at forgiving as needed, mindful of past grievances and being careful of my own projections.

there's no need for self-improvement.

I forgive every false belief,

 finding peace with who I really am.

a very simply practice.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Yes, This Too

Yes, this too: 

to live a more forgiving life, one not based upon principles but lived solely from the heart. This isn't meant in any sentimental way, it's more practical, that my life is a display of love and untouched by past events or projection on the future. 

everything is forgiven and returned to love. 

at least,

to the best that I am able.

and that's the wonderful thing about a practice, there's no demands that I be an expert right now, or ever really. I have an entire lifetime to put this into action, events that present themselves in order for me forgive, and my only role here is to say...

"yes, this too is forgiven" 

and so,

my life continues. 

forgiving all the way.

~

Peace, Eric

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As Less Now

As Less Now:

it's getting easier to be one less thing, dropping self-made images and concepts, beliefs and long cherished opinions, as well as concerns for however others might view me. Maybe it's age, that I'm soon to leave middle age behind and face whatever years are left ahead. But it feels deeper than that, almost a natural meditation of letting go, things appear in temporary order and just as soon and easily seem to slip away with no thought nor effort applied from me.

I see myself as less now.

verging towards emptiness.

and with this I hold everything so lightly.

lovingly.

as capacity for the world.

~

Peace, Eric 

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Where Life Takes Me

Where life takes me: 

it seems now - I'm much less involved in the world, and yet at once somehow more intimate with life itself, perhaps a paradox, but it feels perfectly right to me. This doesn't mean that my usual interests and the things I care for no longer meaning, they do, there's just less concerned for my personal involvement, that I don't need to add my opinion to every matter, there's no wish to make other wrong through my own demands of how I wish the world to be.

there's just no longer a need to believe I'm always right.

so I hold my views lighter now,

more gently,

 surrendering, forgiving, wishing love to others.

and seeing where life takes me.

~

Peace, Eric 

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To Let Go Of

To let go of: 

and as always, it's just one more thing to let go of, with even the ritual of forgiveness being just another concept that is eventually surrendered, having realized that all we ever have is the present moment and that no trace of our past actually remains. 

forgiveness is instantaneous.

so the truth is, 

we don't do anything.

healing happens on it's own.

yet our rituals are important too, for as long as needed, serving to remind us that we are forever bound to the present  moment, always right now, and that no past event can ever truly harm us. Forgiveness is a liberating ritual, a wonderful healing tool. 

but in the end,

it's just one one more thing that's let go of...

as surrender too, 

happens completely on its own.

~

Peace, Eric

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