Forgiven: How To Forgive Myself

FORGIVEN: How To Forgive Myself - How To Forgive Others

HOW TO FORGIVE DEFINITIVELY FOR GOOD!

You will find the introduction to this book in an earlier article (HERE), but in this offering, I'd like to go further, to point you 'home' the One Self that IS your already established Wholeness & Completeness.

It's time you knew the Truth that you ARE FREE NOW! Turn from man whose breath is in his nostrils, YOU are Immaculate Omnipotent Omniscince Beloved, don't settle for anything less!

This profoundly practal book shows you precisely that you are Forgiven: How To Forgive Myself.

You can watch the video replay of this chapter reading with a deep dive discussion with the author:

Forgiven: How To Forgive Myself & How To Forgive Others

Let us start simply.

You are already whole. Your true inheritance is safe. Your real life is perfect—not as a future promise or a reward for spiritual effort, but as the present fact of what you are. It is here now, waiting only to be recognised.

There has never been a true problem—only apparent problems and confusion, moments of pain, loss, and fear. Yet beneath each, untouched and undiminished, is an awareness never harmed. That Awareness is what you are.

This is not a comforting idea in the face of a hard reality. It describes Reality before we add interpretations, stories, or fears.

Most of us have been taught to see life as a journey: from incomplete to complete, broken to healed, sinful to forgiven, lost to found. The structure of conventional religion, psychology, and self-improvement rests on this assumption: something is wrong, and we must fix it.

This book begins from a different place entirely.

What if nothing is fundamentally wrong? What if the belief that something is wrong is the only issue? Even calling it an issue may be too strong, since it’s just a mistaken identity, as innocent and fixable as believing two plus two is five.

What if you are not seeking wholeness, but are wholeness itself—only briefly and needlessly convinced otherwise?

This is the starting point of everything that follows.

The Nature of Awareness

Pause for a moment and notice something so simple, so obvious, that it is almost always overlooked.

You are aware.

Right now, as you read these words, awareness is present. You are not straining to be aware, or to maintain awareness through effort or discipline. Awareness is simply here—effortless, undeniable, quietly present beneath every thought, feeling, and sensation.

This awareness is not your possession, like a car. It is what you are. Before the thought "I am reading," before comfort or discomfort in the body, before any story about yourself or your past, there is awareness: bare, open, present, alive.

Notice something else: awareness has no edges. You cannot find where it begins or ends. You cannot step outside it or see it from a distance. Every attempt to examine awareness happens within it. It cannot be made an object, because it is always the subject, the knowing presence in which all objects appear.

This awareness is what wisdom traditions call by many names: Consciousness, God, the Self, the Christ, Buddha-Nature, the Tao, the Ground of Being. The name matters less than the recognition. That recognition is available now to anyone willing to look.

You have never been separate from this awareness. You cannot be. You are it.

The Mistaken Identity

So why does life feel so different from what has just been described? Why does it feel like a separate, vulnerable self struggling through a difficult world, rather than the effortless presence of pure awareness?

The answer is simple: mistaken identity.

At some point in early life—so early we cannot recall it—we identified with the contents of awareness rather than awareness itself. We identified with the body, name, story, thoughts, feelings, and roles. We mistook the wave for the ocean, the ray for the sun, the reflection for the original.

This is not a sin. It is not a failure. It is simply a mistake — the kind of innocent mistake a child makes when learning the world, and which can be corrected the moment it is seen clearly.

This mistaken identity leads to:

·    Fear — because a separate self can be threatened, harmed, and destroyed

·    Guilt — because a separate self can do wrong and be judged for it and believes it has

·    Lack — because a separate self is never the whole, and always feels incomplete

·    The need for forgiveness—because a separate self can sin, and sin appears to require absolution.

Every human problem, without exception, traces back to this single root: the belief in a separate self.

And here is the extraordinary news: that belief—that you are a separate self—is not true. It never has been. The separate self you believe yourself to be has never existed as an independent reality. Instead, this sense of separation is a recurring thought pattern, a habitual focus of attention, and a story repeated so often it appears factual.

When the story is seen through, what remains is not nothing. What remains is everything — the vast, open, luminous awareness that you have always been, that has never been harmed, never been stained, never needed forgiveness, because it has never done anything wrong.

You were never the character in the story. You are the awareness in which the story appears.

Already Whole

The wholeness being described here is not something to be achieved. It cannot be achieved, because it is already the case. You cannot become what you already are.

This is the central paradox of all genuine spiritual teaching: the thing you are seeking is the thing that is doing the seeking. The awareness seeking God is God seeking itself. The Consciousness searching for wholeness is Wholeness Itself, temporarily absorbed in the belief that it is separate.

When this is seen — not intellectually understood, but directly recognised — the search ends. Not because you have arrived somewhere new, but because you have stopped running away from where you already are.

This recognition is what this book calls being Forgiven. Not forgiven by another, not forgiven after sufficient repentance, but recognised as the one who was never guilty in the first place. The one who was never truly separate. The one who was always, already, completely whole.

This is your true inheritance. It is available now. It has always been available. The only thing that ever blocked it was the mistaken belief that you were something other than what you are.

Let us look more carefully at that belief, and at what it costs.

The Experience of Wholeness

Before we do, it is worth pausing to describe — as honestly and concretely as possible — what the recognition of wholeness actually feels like when it occurs. Not as a theory, but as an event in experience.

For most people, the recognition does not arrive as a dramatic thunderclap. It is more often a quiet shift — a moment in which the usual sense of pressure, of incompleteness, of needing something to be different, simply lifts. What remains is not emptiness, but fullness. Not absence, but a kind of presence that was always there, just beneath the noise.

Some describe it as a sudden sense of coming home — not to a place, but to themselves; full open Consciousness. Others describe it as the dropping of a weight they had not known they were carrying. Others simply notice that, for a moment, there is nothing wrong. Not because circumstances have changed, but because the story that something was wrong has fallen silent.

This recognition is not always pleasant in the conventional sense. It can arrive in the midst of grief, pain, or difficulty. It does not depend on favourable circumstances. It is prior to circumstances — the ground in which all circumstances arise, untouched by any of them.

What is most striking, for those who have experienced it, is its ordinariness. It does not feel exotic or supernatural. It feels like the most natural thing in the world — like remembering something that was always known but somehow overlooked. The recognition is not of something new. It is of something that was always already here.

This is the wholeness this book is pointing to. Not a spiritual achievement. Not a special state. The simple, direct recognition of what you have always been.

A Direct Inquiry

Before moving on, here is a simple invitation. Not a meditation technique. Not a practice to be performed. Simply a moment of honest looking.

Read the following slowly, and pause where it feels natural to pause.

Right now, as you read these words, there is awareness present. You did not create this awareness. You are not maintaining it. It is simply here.

Now notice: does this awareness have a problem? Not the thoughts about problems — the thoughts are there, perhaps, arising and passing. But the awareness itself — the knowing presence in which the thoughts appear — does it have a problem?

Look carefully. Not at the thoughts. At the awareness.

Is the awareness guilty of anything? Is it burdened by the past? Is it afraid of the future? Or is it simply here — open, quiet, present, available?

This awareness is what you are. Not the thoughts. Not the story. Not the feelings. The Awareness Itself.

And this Awareness — right now, exactly as it is — is Whole. It is not in need of forgiveness. It is not in need of improvement. It is not on its way to somewhere better.

It is already, completely, exactly what it needs to be.

This recognition — however brief, however tentative — is the beginning of everything this book is pointing to and through practical inquiry, you will effortlessly recognize As I Am.

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