Forgiveness and a Global Perspective
7 June 2001
Dominique Finney
Natural Therapist in Australia
I felt that it would be appropriate for me to write about `forgiveness` from a wider perspective, looking at in in a realistic and planetary light.
How can you forgive someone for ruining your life? How can you forgive
the terrors and mass genocide that occurs on the planet through it's rickety
course of history?
This is when you can't just switch to being your higher self and letting
the process of forgiveness to take place with smooth operation. How do
you tell the children (that Mother Theresa has so lovingly saved) that
they have created this starvation and neglect as their birth right? How
do you explain to the thousands of Tibetans that China had absolute right
by karmic process to do what it's done? How do you explain that Nelson
Mandela really deserved to be in prison most of his life because of some
past life dilemma and action that has brought this scenario in action.
Please try and explain to the people all over this globe who are in war,
famine and poverty that they deserve to be there. The mass destruction
of the planet as not all karmic.
Lets take a look at the children in prostitution and tell them
that this is all about the total and concise planning on a universal level.
We could also tell them that they must forgive. This would be difficult
to confront , let alone do.
It's not that simple, there are angered, bad people out there who destruct
anything or anyone in their path just for the act of sabotage.
The greedy little nobodies who abuse, rob and create their own false
sense of worth from the use and pain of the vulnerable. Forgiveness
is such a biggie!
If everyone could rise above everything, then we'd all be so evolved
and the planet would be a paradise of beautiful evolution.
Not so, and we can not explain this off in our conference. All we can
do is try our best in our given lives.
The people who stand out on our planet now, who we could all learn
a good lesson from on forgiveness are Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama.
These two men have single-handedly shown that Love, attempted understanding,
kindness and getting on with life are the keys to forgiveness. Neither
of these men have played the victim role. They have stood up to the pain
and the pain is planetary, deep-seated and very difficult to forget about
in both situations.
This is where we need to take a look at what our own lives are about,
we need to put the pain, circumstance, and forgiveness issues into perspective.
It's not always associated with our own actions and if something occurs
in our lives that is extremely painful and extremely unfair, then we need
to resolve it in our own personal way. There are random acts from the universe.
These random acts are not always kindness and love related. They are sometimes
big mistakes and big disasters that
leave behind a wake of absolute trauma. These are the things that we
need to consider when we look at our own situation and the act of forgiveness
that is involved with any given situation.
I love the Dalai Lama`s approach to happiness. The way that he considers the luck we all posses as individuals and the gratefulness aspect that oozes out of all his work and conversations. Maybe next time you need to forgive something or someone you can read some of his work and be reminded of the greatness that is in gratefulness. The appreciation that is required to live a spiritual life. The level and vibration of energy that would be appropriate to allow yourself the allowness to forgive.
Sometimes it takes generations to bring about forgiveness.
This is very good when it occurs bringing end to bloodshed and long
term war.
However if we look at Eastern Europe and Israel for two seconds, we
see the disastrous results of non forgiveness. The ability to carry the
pain so close to your heart that you are unwilling and unable to even begin
to forgive. The environment around you is so adverse to forgiveness that
you breed your babies with guns in their hands and hatred in their hearts.
This is not really in line with the love and peace that we want to create
on the planet, and these people would spit fire at every word I speak.
To them they are in the right, there has been too much water under
the bridge and they'd rather burn in hell than to ever consider forgiveness!
We, those lucky souls who live in safe war free zones, where we have
clean water, fresh air to breathe, money in our pockets and unlimited access
to the end line consumer products we desire are not in a position to be
unforgiving, ever!
We were born into the lap of luxury when we compare our overall situation
to that of others here on Earth.
So, you can not ever find a reason to carry your anger with pride,
you can never find an excuse to be miserable and unforgiving.
Sure, bad, very bad things happen to us. These things can be random
or they can be related to our own lack of /or too much action. However,
they are really able to be resolved in the process of a lifetime. You must
be willing to be bigger than the person you were yesterday. The reality
is that you could probably help others in situations that require forgiveness.
You can acknowledge your pain, go through the ritual processes, create
your own processes that are positive.
Then, maybe you can be less self indulgent and get out there and help
those in our world who need it.
Maybe your own pain and your own ability to forgive will open doors that allow you to do something really powerful and positive. After all, we're all here for a reason. You may not know what it is, but you can rest assured that it is related to your every experience, good and bad.
Dominique Finney
Natural Therapist
Flaxton Sunshine Coast
Queensland
Australia
