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Defining
what true forgiveness is is tricky. At
first, it seems that I am trying to forgive a person. Someone does something that hurts me, and I
ask for help to find the strength to forgive that person. This is bargaining, and I probably think I am
a better person than that person.
The
thing is, I can never forgive a person; I can only ask for help to let go of my
thought-image that is making up that person, simply a projection.
I
can only forgive a thought.
That’s
good because it keeps it all within my mind; obviously, the image I am projecting
outside begins inside, and there is where I need to focus.
And,
I am up against it because I am dealing with several thousand thoughts pouring through my mind all
day.
Not
only that, these thoughts are based on my habitual conditioning, my core beliefs,
that were well in place by the time I was five years old. This automatic conditioning is the basis for
the thoughts that are triggered by another person’s behavior.
And,
I can let it go because I am placing my finger on my nose, taking full responsibility,
looking inside.
What
comes to mind is this passage from Luke:
Jesus is acknowledging that those crucifying Him are not aware of their projections. They completely focused on Jesus, outside of them as a body, completely unaware that He is simply a thought-image, in fact, they all have slightly different thought-images of Him.
Jesus knows full well that they are unaware of their projections and lovingly asks our Father that they be forgiven.
And from Lesson 134, Let me perceive forgiveness as it is:
Forgiveness looks on thoughts with quiet eyes, and merely says to them, “My brother, what you think is not the truth.”
I
can never forgive a person; I can only forgive my thoughts projected on a
person.
Again, from Lesson 134:
He has been gently awakened from his dream by understanding what he THOUGHT he saw was never there.
Again, from Lesson 134:
He has been gently awakened from his dream by understanding what he THOUGHT he saw was never there.
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On July 4th, I began reading “In The World But
Not Of It,” by Jesus, as scribed by Gina Lake.
I came across theses brilliant passages by Jesus describing
our thought-stream, and I am placing them here because they echo my experience
of forgiving thoughts, not people.
Chapter 2
The Clouds
The illusion Spun by
Thoughts
The obscurations to Christ Consciousness, to experiencing
your divine nature, are simply thoughts.
These thoughts are the ones that flow continually through your mind,
speaking to you as if they were you, and authority figure, or a friend. They are primarily about you and your life,
what to do, how to be, what happened, and what will be. I will be referring to this mental commentary
as the thought-stream, the voice in your head, or the egoic mind.
Imagine that:
Something as flimsy and ephemeral as a stream of thoughts is powerful
enough to hide your divine nature from you and, in its place, create a sense of
yourself as separate, limited, vulnerable, and lacking. Thoughts create the illusion of a self that
has problems, fears, desires, struggles, emotions, and pain. They create the false self. Without thoughts, problems and suffering
disappear and so does the false self.
Thoughts perform quite a magic trick!
Thoughts can come and go in the background without affecting
you, because you understand they are simply the programming common to all
humans and not uniquely yours. You see
that your thoughts actually have nothing to do with your and mean nothing about
you—the real you, that is—although they have everything to do with the false
self.
You come to see that you are the spacious, silent Presence
in which thoughts, feelings, desires, sense impressions, intimations, knowing,
insights, inspiration, and motivations come and go. You share the ground of being out of which
everything you experience arises. You
are that which is eternal and untouched by the coming and gong of thoughts,
feelings, desires, sense impressions, and the whole world of form. And there is total love for form and for its
coming and going. What a miracle this
world is! In Christ Consciousness, you
are in love with life itself and with every way that life manifests.
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