In a world where the good guy
must get rid of the bad guy,
where action heroes seems to be
the ideal model of justice, and
where revenge plays an important
part in the lives of people who
have suffer some kind of
injustice, there is little or no
room for forgiveness.
Forgiveness appears to be some
kind of a wimpy attitude to take.
Yet people do not realize the
power behind forgiveness. One of
the greatest metaphors I have
heard is about getting bitten by
a poisonous snake. In the
metaphor, the snake bite
represents harm someone have done
to you, physical or emotional.
Yet what kills you is not the
snake bite but the venom running
through your system. In life,
what kills people is not the
behavior of others but the
resentment and anger people hold
inside towards their abuser.
Some religious organizations
make you believe that the reason
you forgive is so that you can
either go to heaven, or just
because Jesus said so, etc., not
realizing that the act of
forgiveness, is really an act of
self healing. And even when it
appears as thou forgiveness is
some kind of a selfish act
because you are doing it for
yourself, it is really creating a
space so that others can
experience and feel the love
emanating from you. Once the
space has been established,
others feel safe and therefore
cannot attack.
I once heard the story of a
great master who spend many years
in the forests of the Himalayas.
Once they found him, he was
surrounded by all kinds of
animals ranging form harmless
ones such as birds and
butterflies to the most ferocious
and dangerous like poisonous
snakes, lions and tigers. One of
the individuals asked him,
"Master, aren't you afraid of all
this creatures?" And the master
lovingly replied, "what are you
talking about? All I see is God."
The master then went on to say
that when an animal ceases to
sense hostility, it cannot
attack.
Another fascinating story was
told by the media few months ago,
or years, depending on when are
you reading this story, ha, ha.
Anyway, the story is about a
child in Florida who is mentally
retarded and his family would
take him to a particular pond or
river section where he would
play. One day, the kid was
missing.The army went on to
search for the child. When they
found him a week later, just
before they give up the search,
he has walked almost 14 miles of
river infested with crocodiles.
As a matter of fact, that is a
place where the Military trains
and they even said that they have
lost soldiers there.
When the child was brought
home, he could not talk, but he
was able to identify pictures.
When a book was shown to the
child he could point out all the
things he saw and one of them was
plenty of crocodiles. When the
Sargent of the military in charge
of the search was asked what kind
of explanation he could think of,
the Sargent's reply was, "there
was no fear."
What do all this have to do
with forgiveness and healing?
Simple. Resentment and anger are
forms of fear, while forgiveness
is the absence of any kind of
fear. It promotes closeness and
love. When we are in that space,
our body response by creating a
sense of balance which promotes
healing and well being not only
for ourselves, but for the rest
of the world.
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