Forgiveness and Letting Go

Let no one hour casts its shadow on the one that follows, and when that one goes, let everything that happened in its course go with it.
-ACIM W-193:12:4


"I will forgive, and this will disappear".  

Imagine...calling others leeches...that doesn't sound much like letting go or forgiveness, does it?  I was not really referring to other people as leeches but robotic search engine sites...that redirect ppl here.  And I was not putting down Yandex...the Russian equivalent to Google...just the redirect hackings that get attached to it.  Spam is no big deal...does no harm...that is why I use the term leeches. 

The only thing that gets stung with such spamming  is ego when it realizes it isn't special lol...which is a good thing.  I want ego to get stung again and again and again.  I want it to swell up so much it spontaneously combusts :) or  gradually but quickly shrink down to a manageable size. So it is all good. 

So let's get to the topic of today:  Forgiveness and Letting Go.

I do not want to talk about forgiveness in terms of morality because I do not want to talk about others or ourselves needing to "repent" according to those terms. Morality is a social construct based on what the majority or the powerful determine is "right" or "wrong" ...often using some interpretation of God as the reference point.

Did you know that the actual translation of repent from Greek is 'to change one's mind'?  So yes we all need to repent because we are all "guilty" of thinking wrongly about ourselves and about others.  This is the basis of forgiveness in ACIM and in the essays of a man named Neville Goddard who taught his ideologies in the 40's and 50's.

Many were afraid of what he had to say and deemed him to be some messenger of the occult but if one reads his work they will simply see that he may have laid the real seed behind "The Secret".  Many of his ideas can be found in yoga teachings and  ACIM .

Regardless of that he makes some wonderful points about our need to let go of conditioned ways of looking at the world and ourselves.  Like A Course does,  he implies that what we think is real, isn't.  and our holding on to it is the closest thing to sin that is possible.  And all we have to do to correct it is to forgive it or let go of it. 

We don't need to cling to grievances and the things that others , ourselves or life is doing 'wrong'.  The only penance needed is for us to perceive differently.  If we let go of our thoughts on what we don't want in our lives...those things will cease to be. "Nothing is independent of the perceiver. Everything is 'burned up' when I cease to behold it." (The Law). 

It never ceases to amaze me as how all the little teachings I receive occur synchronistically. This lesson in A Course and this lesson in Goddard's essay came to me at the same time and they echo the same thing to me..."The sin we need to look at is that which occurs because we  are seeing incorrectly. We repent when we change our minds and begin to see differently. Letting  Go is forgiveness. When we let go of grievances every hour...we develop healthier habits and a better way to live in the next  hour...and the next...and the next.

Hmmm!  I have a feeling I will be getting back to that.

All is well.