From: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Esp4ssXDtnU
Context: Throughout this transcript, Bhante Vimalaramsi is the speaker unless otherwise indicated.
if the feeling doesn't come up
that means you have some old
hard-heartedness
wrapped around your heart
and you need to do
forgiveness meditation
meditation the feeling doesn't come up
even with forgiveness
i don't care so you have an
old attachment so what it's only an
attachment it's something that happened
in the past that you keep
wrapped around your heart and it takes a
little while
before you're able to let it go so you
have to continue on
with forgiving continuously
let go of any other kind of meditation
even the six
hours
when you forgive you say to yourself i
forgive myself for not understanding
now your mind is going to have
resistance to that
so as soon as your mind goes away
from that statement then forgive that
that distraction for
disturbing you and relax
and then come back and stay that
statement
again and you keep doing that over and
over again
what will happen is at some point
there will be some memory
where somebody did you wrong or you did
somebody else wrong
then you stay with that person and
forgive them for not
understanding and relax
into that and come back and say it again
and again and again
eventually
you will be able to let go of
that person and what they did and you
let go
of the pain caused by that
and you will feel relief and you'll feel
your heart
open up
then you come back to yourself i forgive
myself for making a mistake
i forgive myself for not being perfect
and keep repeating that and then any
kind of thought that pulls your
attention away from the forgiving
then you forgive that thought for
distracting you
relax and then come back and
forgive yourself for making the mistake
stay with that until you feel relief
okay do you understand what i'm saying
yes one thing okay
that will open up a lot of possibilities
for
your practicing of purifying the mind
it really does work very well
and we do have instructions in the
and you can read those instructions
you