forgiveness, what does it really mean

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I agree that understanding is the key. My take is that we have to also understand that it's all relative. In terms of others, I think the easiest method is to keep in mind that they're simply learning and experiencing themselves. They're going through what they have to go through, and we probably made the same mistakes they did. When you think about it, because we can't remember our past it's pretty silly to get mad at others when possibly we're directly confronting an aspect of ourselves that we perhaps once were. That we're confronting the self is of course the case regardless.

So knowing that you don't know and can't know is another key.

Which is why hating the powers that be is a waste of energy also. What if you were negative in the past? It would make sense that those who abandon the negative path would be required to.. "recapitulate a learning/teaching which is adjudged to be less than perfectly balanced."