For abundance, one must forgive.
Forgiveness and letting go are certainly not popular activities. The West does not forget, and they want you to know it.
But it’s quite toxic to hold onto your grudges, grievances, and heartaches past the point of processing — in fact, it’s literally poisoning you from the inside out, all while you thought holding onto anger was going to fix the issue and make such trespasses known!
Au contraire, my darling human being. The ego plays these games. Games of heightening one’s sense of self based on falsely assumed hierarchies of morality and goodness. If only it were so. If only there was such a way to see humanity as simply yes or no.
Claiming a moral high ground insists that you must not have any shadows or darkness that materialized in the form of doing wrong unto others. You and I both know what a load of baloney that is! We like to shove our darkness, our shadow, or icky corners away and pretend that all wrongdoing is only felt by us, not done by us.
Forgiveness and letting go require you to feel something empathetic toward a human you’re convinced is incredibly undeserving… Yet giving it anyway. What POWER there is in compassion emanating deep from roots that wish to not budge. Roots that want nothing more than to be right about it all.
Such a shift in energy sends a signal to the ether that absolutely cannot be missed. A signal with a code etched into its fiber that says…
I am one even with the possibility of darkness.
I am united even with the parts I wish did not exist.
I am one with those that have done me wrong, with those that make me hurt inside.
This is the power of forgiveness. In the recognition of an Other’s humanity, we are forced to see our own. In the unrelenting push to keep our Self above someone else, we turn around and choose the other way.
Can you see now?
The hurt caused in you was not someone else’s doing. Who decided to feel that way? Did I slither in and change the chemical makeup of your brain at that moment?
“The realization that you do not exist separately from everything else also carries with it the awareness that you must now accept responsibility not only for the results of your own actions but for everything you experience. It no longer works to say something like, 'she made me jealous'. One must now say 'I made myself jealous'. Now if a problem occurs you cannot look outside of yourself to place the blame but must look inwards, face yourself, and discover what it is in you that engendered a particular situation.”
The Elements of Zen, David Scott & Tony Doubleday
Now you may cue the belly laugh of realization that says it’s been you all along!!
You’re not separate, you’re not the victim, you are not severed from the whole.
The hurt, anger, resentment, and bitterness stuck in your body goes from hurting you to hurting another — and now you know… that this is hurting you. The loop goes on and on until you grab the rope, tie a knot, throw it out the window, and slide on down into reality 2.0.
Or shall we say, REALITY-ONE? The only one with one total occurrence. The one interconnected, interstitched, and interwoven into your tiniest cell.
When you do not forgive and let go, you hold onto an illusion that creates walls between you and your true form. Eyes and ears that once saw and heard as if there were no outside and inside will mistake the mirror of such anger as reality.
Are you still unsure? Just ask a tree: “Why do you let go of your dead leaves?” The answer reveals the nature of existence whereby reliance on release allows abundance to continue. The forest burns itself to the ground for rebirth to ensue. The tide must turn, the sun must set, the wind must pause, the sky must darken, the stars must fall.
And you
must
forgive.
Xo,
BS