Forgiveness

[Guest]

This came up on my facebook today, thought I would share

A BUDDHIST PRAYER OF FORGIVENESS:

If I have harmed anyone in any way either knowingly or unknowingly
through my own confusions I ask their forgiveness.
If anyone has harmed me in any way either knowingly or unknowingly
through their own confusions I forgive them.
And if there is a situation I am not yet ready to forgive
I forgive myself for that.
For all the ways that I harm myself, negate, doubt, belittle myself,
judge or be unkind to myself through my own confusions
I forgive myself.

[Tb]

Hi.

Thx for sharing, thats good practice.

Mtfbwy
Fugen

Ps a picture of you would be nice. ds

[Mp]

Very nice Emmy, thank you.

Gassho
Shingen

[Geika]

Prayer to who/ whom? (<--I hate this)

Just kidding! Very nice, like the Verse of Atonement we use.

[Cumminjd]

Thank you for this! Its very nice!

Gassho,

James

[Joyo]

Hi.

Thx for sharing, thats good practice.

Mtfbwy
Fugen

Ps a picture of you would be nice. ds

A picture, I tried to upload a picture but it didn't work, so I'll have to figure something out I guess.

[Heion]

Very nice prayer. I feel that it could be easily blended into a metta practice to help emphasize forgiveness and 'clean our plates' a bit.

Gassho,
Alex

[Emmet]

I can't provide the provenance of this, but it speaks to me of liberating all beings, including the one's who I have the most difficulty extending metta to, even though I suspect that they might be the ones most in need of it.

Kannon's Prayer for the Abuser

To those who withhold refuge,
I cradle you in safety at the core of my Being.
To those that cause a child to cry out,
I grant you the freedom to express your own choked agony.
To those that inflict terror,
I remind you that you shine with the purity of a thousand suns.
To those who would confine, suppress, or deny,
I offer the limitless expanse of the sky.
To those who need to cut, slash, or burn,
I remind you of the invincibility of Spring.
To those who cling and grasp,
I promise more abundance than you could ever hold onto.
To those who vent their rage on small children,
I return to you your deepest innocence.
To those who must frighten into submission,
I hold you in the bosom of your original mother.
To those who cause agony to others,
I give the gift of free flowing tears.
To those that deny another's right to be,
I remind you that the angels sang in celebration of you on the day of your birth.
To those who see only division and separateness,
I remind you that a part is born only by bisecting a whole.
For those who have forgotten the tender mercy of a mother's embrace,
I send a gentle breeze to caress your brow.
To those who still feel somehow incomplete,
I offer the perfect sanctity of this very moment.

[KellyRok]

Emmy,

Ooh, I like this one, thank you for sharing!

Gassho,
Kelly/Jinmei

[McGettigan]

Thank you for this Emmy. Tai Sheridan has a collection called, Zen Prayers for Repairing Your Life. If you have a Kindle it's free.

[Nameless]

Thanks Emmy, that seems like it would correspond well with metta practice.

Gassho, John

[Geika]

Piobair, I felt compelled to share that one on facebook, thanks.

[Genshin]

Piobair,
thank you for sharing such a lovely
prayer.
Gassho,
Matt

[Taigu]

Very touching words. Thank you all.

Forgiveness is utterly alive when there is not anybody left to forgive anybody.

Dreams within dreams are flowers in space.


Gassho

Taigu

[RichardH]

Forgiving is forgetful. Forgetfulness walks out the front door each morning, and says hi to a new neighbor, along with sounds of footfall and birds in the bush.

Gassho, Daizan.