Forgiveness

Forgiveness
What right has that person to forgive you? The only thing they can do is to urge you to forgive yourself…ajan brahm is speaking of the guilt people carry around for having caused harm to someone.  He mentions the absurdity of someone going to a priest or the buddha or Jesus Christ in order to be rid of your guilt. 

It doesn’t seem that he’s suggesting it’s absurd to go to a person such as your best friend or spouse in order to ask for forgiveness and make amends with them. 

However, i’m going to focus on the concept of forgiveness in relationships before i move on to my thoughts on ajan brahm’s reflections on forgiving oneself.

Warning: the following is a passage from the bible.  This may be a huge turn off to one who may have doubts about the legitimacy of accounts recorded in the bible.  However, it’s where my thought process is taking me so i hope you’ll be patient and read on. 

You may be familiar with the passage in the bible where peter asks Jesus how many times he must forgive someone.

Jesus goes on to give a parable on forgiveness.

side note on Jesus’ parable on forgiveness

Moving on, the basic idea that i want to focus on regarding forgiveness, is that in doing something wrong to someone, we steal something from them in a sense.  …