{"id":107,"date":"2016-01-24T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/?p=107"},"modified":"2022-11-20T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T14:21:20","slug":"2016-01-24-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/2016-01-24-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"January 24 &#8211; forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Tara Brach&#8217;s website has several suggestions on maintaining a daily practice, and she includes these tips that are likely relevant to most of us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you miss practice for a day, a week, or a month, simply begin again.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t judge your practice \u2014 rather, accept what unfolds and trust your capacity to awaken and be free<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(you can read the full list towards the bottom of this page: <a class=\"postlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/howtomeditate\/\">https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/howtomeditate\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>So perhaps, you may have missed a few days, or you may have hit some tough spots in your practice. That&#8217;s not a problem. But I know it can feel like a problem.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where I find a forgiveness practice can be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Tara Brach has a section in her book True Refuge, which has been adapted on her website, that discusses self-forgiveness, and includes a practice.<br \/>\n<a class=\"postlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/self-forgiveness-and-making-amends\/\">https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/self-forgiveness-and-making-amends\/<\/a><br \/>\nPractice link at the bottom of that page, or here:<br \/>\n<a class=\"postlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/guided-meditation-guided-forgiveness-practice-2\/\">https:\/\/www.tarabrach.com\/guided-meditation-guided-forgiveness-practice-2\/<\/a><br \/>\nTara says &#8220;A forgiving heart is a heart that can let go of the armoring that sustains separation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you want something for your fridge or wall, the SIMC website has a link to a forgiveness practice in text form:<br \/>\n<a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saskatooninsight.com\/New_Site\/Resources_files\/Forgiveness.pdf\">http:\/\/www.saskatooninsight.com\/New_Site\/Resources_files\/Forgiveness.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One more tip from Tara&#8217;s list is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign up for a retreat\u2014one day, a weekend, or longer. The experience will deepen your practice and nourish spiritual awakening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next Sunday, January 31, there is a day-long retreat here in Saskatoon! Jeanne is leading a retreat on &#8220;Resting in the Heart of Kindness and Compassion&#8221;. Full details are on the SIMC website: <a class=\"postlink\" href=\"https:\/\/saskatooninsight.com\/wp\/upcoming-events\/\">https:\/\/saskatooninsight.com\/wp\/upcoming-events\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope to see you there.<\/p>\n<p>With best wishes,<br \/>\nAndrea G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friends, Tara Brach&#8217;s website has several suggestions on maintaining a daily practice, and she includes these tips that are likely relevant to most of us: If you miss practice for a day, a week, or a month, simply begin again. Don\u2019t judge your practice \u2014 rather, accept what unfolds and trust your capacity to awaken and be\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/2016-01-24-forgiveness\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,16],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2016","tag-forgiveness","tag-tara-brach"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}