As
far as my life is concerned, forgiveness is the essential motivation that
drives my practice. Not only was I, (in the face of my own distractions,
disruptions, destruction, deceptions, delusions and drunken depravities) am
most in need of forgiveness, but, I found that I have an even greater need to
forgive others. There are those whose lives are so wound up in their beliefs…
beliefs rarely adhered to by conviction or thoroughly thought through, but, accepted
by indoctrination, inheritance or ambition… that unspeakable atrocities are
committed in the name of these beliefs.
The process of finding
forgiveness ought not discourage me in the prosecution of my own convictions
but would better be employed as a gauge to preclude me from unjustly doing so.
Very few things embarrass me more that the actions I have taken, or words I
have used, to execute my beliefs in the past that diminished the heart-felt
convictions of others. Understanding that forgiveness doesn’t necessarily mean
I condone or accept others as much as it means to simply delve deep into my own
heart for my own misperceptions and to see them not as adversaries but as children
of God.
Polarities: black vs white;
right vs left; gay vs straight; liberal and conservative; there is far too much
demonization of the opposition going on in politics today. It is one thing to
be in opposition but entirely another thing to see the other side as pure evil.
Ignorance is the only evil and I have to make sure that I do not become the personification
of that evil to my fellows.
geo, 4,654
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