posted June 22, 2007 06:02 PM         

Forgiveness is one of the most powerful and purest spiritual teachings. I feel. It has the power to transform everything. Just thinking, writing about it I can feel something magical happening in my heart.

I don't believe that it is necessary to experience every good or bad thing we may have done to others. This feels like a false teaching to me. To do something good for someone in hope of gaining more points for oneself evades the truth....which is simply the spiritual knowledge inside...that we are all connected; to hurt another is really to hurt oneself.

I believe, that to realize fully one day (perhaps in the after life, or here...it doesn't matter where)....exactly what they have done to hurt someone....to fully empathize with this person or animal or whoever....is punishment ENOUGH.

I don't know if anyone has seen the film 'Powder'. It is a film about an albino boy, born with supernatural powers. He was raised in total isolation by his parents, until one day they died and he was taken away into the outside world, where this beautiful soul was ostracized by other teenagers at his school.

Anyway, one of his powers was having total empathy. One day, he found a wounded deer, lying, dying on the ground. He knelt down, beside the deer, witnessed by others who were with him, his heart bleeding. The huntsman, who had shot the deer came forward. Placing one hand on the deer, and the other on the huntsman, he transferred everything the deer was feeling into the huntsman. The man freaked out and was never, ever able to lay a finger on his gun ever again.

A similar thing happens at the end of the original 'The Crow' movie.

The only real evil is ignorance itself. We are only blinded by our own amnesia....which is forgetting who we truly are. Whenever we hurt other beings, we cut ourselves off more and more from the spirit. It is fear and hatred that makes people sink deeper and deeper into forgetfulness. It is this illusion that we are all separate when we are not. The most evil people in the world are living their lives with their souls asleep. To feel like this must feel so NUMB!!!
And yet, underneath it all, there is still some goodness in everyOne.

Enigma: 'In every colour, there's the light, In every stone sleeps a crystal'.

Yes, there is definetly something very powerful about the teaching of forgiveness and the one who came to teach this.
And if people could only realize the truth...this real Oneness which permeates all life....

posted June 22, 2007 06:39 PM         

Thank you for expressing your heartfelt thoughts
Glorious words!!!
If only I had a magic wand that could zap away the numbness and amnesia in those hurting souls on this planet, and allow them to glimpse their own *true* nature -- each of us sparks from the Divine Eternal.....

posted June 23, 2007 05:13 PM         

Maybe it has already happened in other dimensions, other worlds.

Let those who will have ears hear, and those who have eyes see.....