Forgiveness

“Sit in the position of comfort that you have come to know is best for maintaining meditation. Relax your mind, body, and emotions. Attain a rhythm of effortless breathing. Refocus your attention on your breath if you get distracted from your meditation. In your mind’s eye, visualize your Deity. If it is one that has no human form, see the holy, infinite, all-powerful pure energy that represents the divine. If your Deity has a form, see it in as great detail as possible.

For instance, if it is in a human male form, see its body, face, hair, eyes, hands, robe, all, as clearly as you can. See yourself in front of and facing your Deity, in a sitting, standing, or prostrating position. Visualize yourself covered with many, many layers of ultra fine energy, much like the layers of skin on an onion. Each of these layers were created by the process of labeling your actions as sins. In reality, nothing you’ve ever done has been either “good” or “bad”. They have just been things that occurred in your life. If they could be labeled or judged, what they would be are opportunities to appreciate your universal identity and oneness with the divine. Misinformation and inappropriate conditioning has caused you to have the illusion that you have sinned by your physical, mental, or emotional actions and have acquired layers of negative energy that now cover and soil your pure Real Self.

Realize that with every breath you receive, the Highest Power, your Deity, sends you forgiveness and blessings. Know that every interaction you have had with anyone else that you may have thought caused them to suffer, had the potential to help them become a stronger person and evolve in consciousness. Most importantly, acknowledge that not everything you were conditioned to believe was a sin, was one, and that the conditioning itself may have been the sin.

See your Deity remove your guilt and convert your so-called sins into love. Visualize your guilt coatings melting off and the forgiveness and blessings of the Divine cleansing and healing the wounds and pain they caused. As they peel off, you may remember specific things that you have been carrying within your subconscious. Witness the events and the suffering they represent fade away and dissolve forever.

As the final layers are peeled away, you realize that there is nothing left within and thus no separation from the Deity who is all powerful, present infinitely and eternally, all knowing and all love. Just like a bird that has escaped its shell, with no more guilt to bind you, you are forever free to soar the heavens and swim in the universal ocean of bliss.”