Finding Peace: Illusion?
The world we experience with our five senses is a linear arrangement of events. According to many spiritual disciplines, we are in this life to transcend all the events. Our transcendence will allow us to view the linear events of our life as an illusion, something that is here no more with our awareness in truth, limited to the here and now, which is immediately gone the moment we perceive it.
When it comes to painful trials and tribulation, it is through forgiveness that we find peace, and even though we can forgive one event after another and find more and more peace, we will eventually awaken and find that forgiveness is no longer necessary, because what we have forgiven is an illusion. Forgiveness then must be an illusion to end illusion. In my Zen practices, I see this as another powerful paradox.
