This morning in the shower, i was chewing on this philosophy, and i thought i would pass it on to my friends on facebook: The function of Forgiveness When we hear the word forgiveness, we tend to think that it’s something to be done for someone, after they apologize, after having wronged us. However, what is forgiveness really? What is it that we have stuffed into that word, and how does it work? Most people seem to think that it is letting someone go free, of the wounds they have caused us. After all, it is me, forgiving you, and giving something to someone, would be a gift to the receiver, would it not? I don’t think that this is the case however. Quite on the contrary it seems to me that not forgiving, is clinging to the wounds that we were given. The act of forgiving is hence, letting go of those wounds, and use that clinging energy, on healing those wounds. At least, that was my original hypothesis. This changed a bit when I found a need to use the “letting go of the wound” on something that was not a wound. When being hurt, a lot of negative energy is produced in our systems. When forgiving, that energy is turned positive. Forgiveness does not affect the energy already in the system. Energy is however spent, and renewed. We can thus conclude that the source of the energy, is not the wound but the “heart”. Hence we can see that the wound is healed when the energy emitting from the heart is positive, and is deepened when the energy is negative. When we are angry, afraid, proud or hating it is the same negative energy flowing though different functions of the heart. This in turn means that, if hurting becomes healing with positive energy, healing and hurting are the same function. If hurting and healing are the same functions, then how about love and hared, faith and fear, pride and humility or rage and serenity? If you forgive when you are afraid, you will become faithful. If you forgive when you are hurting, your wound will mend. If you forgive when you are hating, you will become loving. If you forgive when you are proud, you will become humble. If you forgive when you are angry, serenity will fill you out. Hence, the word forgiveness, in turn get to mean, the act of letting go of the negative factors that we are clinging to, and turn the heart positive. Why is this so hard to do? Because to do it, we have to admit that “It’s me, that is doing something wrong, when I am being hurt.”
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:02:15 +0000
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