Forgiveness Is The Key

by Aranya

"Judgment is what creates death.
With forgiveness you can live forever."

Forgiveness is a means for you all to break the chain to, what
you would say, escape from the wheel, to get out of the pickle.
So it seems only appropriate that it should be the gimmick.  So
the gimmick of the month this month is: Forgiveness Is The Key.
The question is, the key to what?  Perhaps the easiest answer to
that is the key to the kingdom.  Forgiveness is the key.  And if
you must make it longer, then it is the key to the kingdom.  The
kingdom of what?  Well, some of you call it the kingdom of
heaven.  And then you know that the kingdom of heaven is within.
The kingdom of joy.  The kingdom of bliss, the kingdom of peace.
So we need to talk about forgiveness.  Now that you know that it
is the key you had better know what it is.  Yes?  It's not too
good to tell you these things if you don't know what they are.
Some of you have what you call a charge on the word forgiveness.
Some of you have beliefs and connotations about the word
forgiveness.  A lot of you view the word forgiveness as being
something that you do when you already know that something is
wrong.  You don't forgive someone for something you don't think
is bad.  You only forgive trespasses.  You don't forgive someone
for giving you something you like.  You give forgiveness to
someone for giving you a cold.  But you don't forgive them for
giving you a Christmas present.  'It's all right I forgive you.'
They would think you were nuts.  That is where the negative
connotation comes from around this word forgiveness.  What I ask
you is for a little while take the word forgiveness out of all
the connotations you have around it and let us talk about the
power this thing.

We have talked about ego.  Ego is the judger.  Ego judges things
positive and negative.  It sorts things.  There are very few
things that the ego leaves neutral.  A lot of you even have
neutral labeled as good.  You want things to be neutral, so now
you want things to be neutral.  There is good, bad and
indifferent?  No.  No.  No.  Good, bad and neutral.  And neutral
is on the good side of the line, ahh.  Indifferent is on the bad
side of the line.  There is nothing in between.  So you have good
neutral, indifferent, bad, with a line down the middle where
nothing exists.  Because as soon as you begin to perceive you
immediately have to categorize.  That's the way you work.  If you
meet some one the first thing you have to do is figure out if
they are male or female.  Because for some that means you're good
and for some that means you're bad, depending upon your point of
view, huh?  So, some it is neutral some it is indifferent but it
is still the same.

Forgiveness comes as a process of releasing ego.  So this is part
of this way of dealing with ego that isn't pushing it down.  It's
releasing it from its game.  Forgiveness works only in this
density.  It is functional only of this density.  Why?  Because
no place else is there judgment.  You don't need forgiveness
unless you are running around judging.  You're always praying to
God to forgive you.  God doesn't know how to forgive, because God
doesn't know how to judge.  Pretty hard to forgive if you haven't
judged, eh?  The other half to think on it is, God doesn't care
what you do.  So God can't forgive you for something he didn't
notice was wrong.  'Cause he doesn't care what you do.  He allows
you to do anything.  She allows you to do anything.  They allow
you to do anything.  You allow you to do anything.  So,
forgiveness operates only in this density.  And it is a major way
for you to get out of this density.  Without forgiveness you're
gonna have a pretty hard time giving up judgments past, future
and present.  You're judging the past, the present and the future
at all times.  So forgiveness becomes a releasing mechanism.  All
forgiveness is, is letting go of judgment.  But it doesn't make a
very good gimmick.  Saying letting go of judgment is the key, is
messy.  So we say Forgiveness is the Key.

When you forgive someone you don't say, 'Oh, I know you were
wrong but it's all right.'  When you forgive you say, 'I let go
of my judgment that it was wrong.'  You don't say, 'It's all
right,' because then you are flopping it into the other side.
You switch it from bin bad into bin good or maybe into bin
indifferent or neutral.  To say I release my judgment means to
really neutralize it, to really make it free.

The process of forgiveness for you is very difficult.  Ego likes
to hold on.  That's part of being in control.  Hold on tight.
So, the only way for you to begin the game of forgiveness is to
say, 'it's all right.'  And I like to always say, start with the
small stuff, huh?  Don't start with mass murderers, the Japanese
who are wiping out the whales, the fellow in a grand financial
scam who took money from little old ladies.  Don't even start
with your mother who said something that you never liked.  Start
with the little stuff.  Start with the fellow how pulled out in
front of you on the freeway.  Start with the check out person at
the grocery store who was rude.  Start with the idiot who didn't
put the price on the thing that you wanted to buy on Christmas
Eve and you had to spend an hour and half in line to buy it.
Start with the little idiots in your life.

The beginning of the whole process is to begin to forgive out
there, to forgive the others.  You have a grand prayer that you
say 'forgive us our trespasses as we would forgive those who
trespass against us.' You're asking God to forgive you as you
would forgive everyone else.  The only way you make space for
yourself to forgive yourself is to begin to give forgiveness away
to others, because you are so enamored to it being given to you.
The truth of the matter is that you can't give anything to anyone
without receiving it.  Everything you give away, you give to
yourself because we are all one.

So you start out there.  All you're doing is forgiving your
mirrors so that you might forgive yourself.  Maybe if you're
lucky they'll forgive you.  But that is beside the point.  So
begin with the small stuff out there and begin also if you can
with the small stuff here.  Forgive yourself for all the dumb
little things that you do, for running into the door knob. You
know how many times you call yourself an idiot for doing stupid
things?  It was really some little no big deal thing.  You spill
the coffee in the morning and it becomes a heinous thing.  It
ruins the whole day.  How does it ruin your day?  Because you
judge yourself for being an idiot.  You judge yourself for doing
something so stupid.  Forgive yourself all of the little things,
every little bruise, every little owie, every little thing that
you do to yourself that you are constantly swearing at yourself
about.   And now I give you the ultimate double whammy, yes?  The
next thing that will start happening once you start playing with
this is then you are going to start judging yourself for judging.
Forgive yourself not only for the first judgment but for the
second.  If all else fails you can spend your time forgiving
yourself for judging.  It's a grand method.  Then you don't even
get caught up in what's right and wrong.  You just forgive
yourself for judging.  Try that one for a week.  Forgive yourself
for judging.  Every time you notice yourself judging, forgive
yourself.  Don't worry about the rest of the stuff.  Don't worry
about what you judged.  Just forgive yourself for judging.
Wander around forgiving yourself for judging.  You'll be amazed
at the healing process.  You begin to see it is not the
judgments.  It doesn't matter how harsh or how mild the judgment,
it's still a judgment.  It is still entrapping.  It's not a
question of degrees.  Whether you judge yourself for spilling
coca cola or stealing a million dollars, it is still a judgment.
It doesn't matter.  You are still entrapping yourself either way.
Forgiveness is the key.  It is the way out.  The only way you
stop judging is to start forgiving.  And forgiving, it can become
a grand panacea, because you don't have to forgive everything.
You don't have to go through you life making lists.  I made a
judgment of this, I forgive it.  You have made millions, perhaps
a better word is billions, you have made millions and billions of
judgments in your lifetimes.  Most of you have made billions of
judgments already in this lifetime. You don't need lists.  You
don't need to make up for your errors or judgments by saving the
world.  The world doesn't need saving.  You need forgiving.  And
no one can do it for you.  Only you can.  Forgiveness is the key.
To freedom.  To life.  To Joy.  To forever.  Judgment is what
creates death my friends.  With forgiveness you can live forever.

"Forgiveness Is The Key" was excerpted from  _A Journey to the
Center: A guidebook to enlightenment_, by Aranya channeled by
Sara C. Schurr.

Each chapter presents a "gimmick" like Forgiveness is The Key, to
guide the reader along their path to enlightenment.  The book
comes with 12 affirmation cards, one for the gimmick presented in
each chapter.

It is available at many metaphysical bookstores and from:
Winterhaven Press 21413 High Rock Road Monroe, WA 98272.