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Let Go And Forgive Quickly, Everything Turns Around Like Magic
Guidance From A Shaolin Master and The Bible
Forgiveness, I discovered, is more than just overlooking mistakes, insults or rude behavior by other people. In fact, it’s not about other people at all.
It has to do with light.
If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Mathew 6:14.
Ancient texts describe the word, ‘single’ with greater depth. It means ‘free from contradiction, or double-mindedness, free from deceit.’ This is what keeps the light on inside.
This energy of ours, which is light, is so powerful, Shaolin monks can start fires with it.
Researchers from Japan seek to discover how to heal medical conditions from the light emissions in the body.
Light is energy and energy is used to create things.
Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi, Headmaster of the Shaolin Temple in Europe, compared our energy to that of water falling off a mountain. When it accumulates and forms a river or stream it can be channeled into a reservoir, used as electricity and directed in many useful ways.
In the same way, our energy can be harnessed instead of wasted. This is the essence of the letting go process. This is…
