Hello everyone! Today I will continue to share a case of forgiveness that happened to me. At the same time I will share some miracle concepts around this case.
Firstly, let me introduce the background of this case. My family lives on the first floor, and downstairs is a small noodle shop, which is open until 9 pm every day.
The story happened one winter night. I was rather tired that day and wanted to rest earlier, so I was ready to go to bed at 9 o’clock. However, just as I was about to go to sleep, I heard in a daze a burst of noisy conversations and strange laughter coming from downstairs. These sounds prevented me from sleeping, and then I listened carefully and found that it turned out to be a group of young people chatting feverishly downstairs. I thought to myself, “Oh no, they’ve had too much to drink, I may not be able to fall asleep today”. But in spite of this, I began to try to sleep, for I felt that they would leave in a little while, and that their laughter and chatter were incidental. But after a little while longer, I realised that the noisy chatter never stopped, and it wasn’t long before a few odd laughs kept me more awake again. At this point, my boredom intensified. I thought to myself that I would not be able to sleep today, these young people are so annoying and have no regard for others.
It was at this point, when the emotions of boredom and anger appeared in my mind, that I was suddenly alerted to these emotions, for they were the very telltale signs that I was identifying with egoic thinking and was convicting these young people. And these emotions also indicated that some old guilt in my subconscious mind had manifested itself into an incident where these young people were making a fuss over me. So this event was an opportunity for me to forgive. So far, once I had figured all this out, I began the practice of forgiveness.
It was some old guilt in my subconscious that manifested the adversity of these young people making a fuss over me, so the responsibility for this manifestation lies within me and not with these young people. Moreover, the manifestation of this adversity occurred only in a dream of mine, and this also includes the fact that the bodies of these young men were only illusory images that I dreamt. Therefore I have no need to condemn them, and it is only right that I forgive them for the fact that this event in the dream, which they were making so much noise about, never happened at all. And it is because this event never happened that I can forgive it. In this way, I can forgive myself for dreaming of this event.
Since the Lord has not split with me, I am willing to release their image within the Lord. Thus, there is only purity and innocence here, and the Holy Spirit is with us.
Thus, after I have defined this adversity as a manifestation of guilt and practised true forgiveness in this way for a few times (perhaps I would have exerted all my strength and taken ten minutes to complete the above forgiveness). The boredom and anger would slowly disappear in my heart and be replaced by a sense of relief and a faint sense of peace. The Holy Spirit would then be with me and help me to dissolve the old guilt in my subconscious.
Finally, when I was in the presence of the Holy Spirit, my inspiration of the Holy Spirit on this matter came to me and it was as if the Holy Spirit was saying to me, “Just let them make noises for a little while, it’s just a manifestation of your old guilt, so just keep on forgiving and I’ll keep on helping you to dissolve that old guilt until it’s cleaned up. And don’t take the sleepless you seriously, because you don’t live here, the victim who doesn’t sleep well doesn’t exist, so just keep forgiving and experience relief and peace.” And just like that, when these inspirations from the Holy Spirit came to me, I knew I didn’t have to do anything. I just had to patiently lie in bed and practice forgiveness. After just a little while longer, I noticed a distinct change in how I felt about them, and that was that it was harsh for me to listen to their noise just now. But after forgiveness, I found their noise and strange laughter quite cute. At this point, I felt that I had succeeded in forgiving in this incident because I no longer had any negative feelings about it.
I have more to share about this incident above, because as I forgive these young men, I also want to share this incident in the future. So while I was forgiving, I pondered for a moment on what exactly I had done in the past to cause this guilt to appear within my subconscious mind and eventually manifest itself into this noisy incident? After thinking about it for a while, I came up with a not particularly accurate reason, and that is that there have been times in the past when I have thrown away rubbish and left the rubbish bag outside the bin. And the reason for this outcome was that on a few occasions when I threw out the rubbish I had a playful mindset, which meant that I would aim for the opening of the bin and throw the rubbish a long way away from the bin. This resulted in the rubbish bag being thrown outside but then I would walk away without reaching out to pick it up. Then as I walk away, I think to myself, “I’ve thrown my rubbish out there and I didn’t take care of it, this is going to cause a lot of trouble for the rubbish collectors, I’ve really sinned. They will have to pick it up and clean it for me, ouch!” Then just as I think about this, I have convicted myself of sin, and then this sin festers within my subconscious mind as guilt, such that this guilt ends up waiting for an opportunity to manifest an adversity of my being disturbed by these young people. That’s one of the less accurate reasons I came up with, and I’m sharing this inaccuracy only in the hope that you can understand the operational connection between subconscious sin, guilt, and the manifestation of guilt.
This case above demonstrates a model of forgiveness that is more in line with the idea of miracles:
1. Detect and alert yourself to various negative emotions.
2. Seek out the event and person to whom the negative emotion is directed.
3. Define that event and person as the manifestation of an old guilt within your subconscious. In this way, we will not be able to easily project our sins onto others. (Projecting means to think or see in our mind or eyes the hateful or deserving face of another person while we are giving him/her the guilt.)
4. The practice of true forgiveness with dreams as the background.
5. Judge whether or not forgiveness has been completed by the presence or absence of negative emotions, and continue to forgive if there are still negative emotions about an event and its associated people.
Of this model above, only #4 the perception that world life is just a dream is the most difficult to perceive in the practice of forgiveness. This is because conceptually you may know that the world is just a dream, but it is very difficult to experience in the practice of forgiveness. Therefore, in the next case sharing, I will share a method that can make it easier for you to perceive that the world is just a dream, which I call the Dream Substitution Method. I hope this method will give you some help in forgiveness.