For me I have found forgiveness to be the doorway that leads to healing. Many great teachers have told us holding on to anger is toxic. It can become an addiction feeding toxic neurotransmitters throughout our system. When we forgive everyone for everything and adopt a practice of loving kindness we can align ourselves with the infinite divine. I have found this to be the path for healing. The following is from the book Healing Relationships by Lama Choedak Rinpoche In his Guide to the Bodhisattvas Way of Life, the Indian Buddhist sage Shantideva said that just as someone caught in a fire that might spread between houses will not waste time hesitating to remove fuel that would help it to spread, likewise when we are burning with the fire of anger, the main symptom of lack of forgiveness, we must try to put the fire out quickly to stop it spreading further. This is another implication of the First Noble Truth, which is the noble truth of suffering: the suffering of burning hair is relatively minor, but if it gets to our skin it will create much greater suffering. So we try to put the fire out while it is small.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:58:47 +0000
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