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Waters of Forgiveness
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You are the master of your destiny. To have the courage of your purpose, your vision, to have diligence and generosity to realize that vision for the benefit of all beings\u2014these are the commitments of a Peacekeeper. To keep clear these sacred commitments is to dedicate oneself to right relationship with all in the family of life.<\/p>\n

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We have spoken of the waters of forgiveness; they are also the waters of sweet remembrance, ever renewing, ever recalling the inherent wisdom of the moment and the beauty that brings us together with our friends and relatives. Forgiveness is a basic ritual of the Tsalagi. Once a year in our ceremonial cycle the “Friends Making New” ceremony is held, and every day one is encouraged to make way for forgiveness. In the ceremony we literally go to the ocean’s or the river’s edge and we cast the water over our shoulders seven times, casting aside expectations, forgiving and letting go of attachment to what might have been, could have been, should have been. After that is done, even the most painful memories can be released and the worst enemies become friends again. We know that if we do not renew ourselves we suffer the same patterns of discord again and again, so we make this vow to forgive and forget and start anew. The most precious time for forgiveness ceremony is the spring new moon.<\/p>\n

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The forgiveness ritual is a practice that you can do at any time, outside at the water\u2019s edge, indoors with a bowl of fresh water, or simply in your mind\u2019s eye.\u00a0 See yourself by the water.\u00a0 Visualize your self stepping forward, offering a prayer of thanks for the opportunity to renew yourself in good relationship. Seven times throw water over your shoulders.\u00a0 Feel it washing away all that obscures good friendship with your circle of friends and family.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI wash away ignorance, I wash away doubt and fear and loneliness.\u00a0 I let go of sorrow, I turn aside anger. I rejoice in the light of a new day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Visualize a beam from your heart radiating rose light to touch the hearts of those with whom you have experienced miscommunication or discord; see that rose light surrounding them and then returning to you, filling your heart.\u00a0 As you step away from the water, yesterday\u2019s wounds are healed.\u00a0 Affirm a new day of clear relations.\u00a0 Let you voice sing out a song of joyous thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

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Ven. Dhyani Ywahoo, Voices of our Ancestors, p 177-178<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waters of Forgiveness   You are the master of your destiny. To have the courage of your purpose, your vision, to have diligence and generosity to realize that vision for the benefit of all beings\u2014these are the commitments of a Peacekeeper. To keep clear these sacred commitments is to dedicate oneself to right relationship with all in the family of … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":430,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-465","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/465\/revisions\/466"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunray.org\/ngo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}