Lesson 134. Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
If sin is real then there is no reason ever to forgive. This statement might also be said like this: If our thoughts about the world are true then there is no reason ever to forgive.
So how to do we know what is true? As ones mind rises up to contemplate the truth, one is happy. When ones thinking is in harmony with truth, one is happy. If one is not happy the current thinking is not true. You don’t need any other measure. If you are happy and at peace (experiencing truth), let your thoughts be. If you are not happy, trust your thoughts are wrong and let them go. That is forgiveness.
Happiness is found in the mind that has let false thoughts go. The mind wants to see the cause of unhappy thoughts not in the mind, but in the world. Michael Singer says in Chapter 2 in The Untethered Soul, “There is a part of your being that can actually abstract from your own melodrama. You can watch yourself be jealous or angry. You don’t have to think about it or analyze it; you can just be aware of it.” If the mind is unhappy let unhappiness be the barometer to remind you that you have misidentified yourself. Realize you have the power to release the misidentifying thoughts and simply see them as unreal and untrue.
The release of the untrue thoughts (forgiveness) opens up the way to truth. Michael Singer, in the same Chapter says, “The act of maintaining objective awareness…is always better than losing yourself in the outer situation. Stand firm in the seat of the witness and release the hold that the habitual mind has on you. [N]obody has ever truly become okay [happy] by changing things outside. There’s always the next problem. The only real solution is to take the seat of witness consciousness [Awareness] and completely change your frame of reference.”
