When we're feeling misunderstood, a good exercise is to think of the word Jesus. Just the word without the trappings...then we begin to get a clue about misunderstanding. Often, to say the word Jesus all but sets people's hair on fire...I walked around with my head aflame for a long time. Interesting to me, the word Buddha is passed around freely, openly and lovingly.
Since the person Jesus set forth only two, that is two, commandments, each of which is love and love, the dig into our goldmine begins with looking inward...the examination of our self to understand our antipathy.
According to me, we have built our own paradigm re Jesus since it was his story that was most commonly taught us. And for our own purposes, we each added our own take to the Jesus facade. Buddha came late to our party and enough time has not passed for us to build him up in order to take him down. Which is fairly representative of the human condition: Give us a hero to adore, and adore we will...unto adulation unto doubt unto Who does s/he think s/he is? No, thanks.
Truth lives and passes on, and passes on best not by words but through consciousness...words often confuse the matter. To pass on the truth of Jesus's commandments, is to speak not, but to do. It is the doing that starts our inner movement upward to understanding...ah, to love. When we reach love of the misunderstanding, we know forgiveness.
Forgiveness is simply the religious word for letting go. -- Fr. Richard Rohr
Thank you.
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