We hear about radiating love and loving-kindness. We all have these same thoughts. We are all just junior Woody Allens. Even when we practice loving-kindness meditation, I feel like sometimes we are focusing on loving, fixing, solving something, but not on appreciating everything, on opening, on forgiveness. And yet, it is a fact.
Forgiveness is a big part of acceptance.
I think that from the point of view of Bodhicitta, we should think about working on forgiveness. And notice what that brings up. Last time I said this I was in Jerusalem. You can imagine what an earful I got, about the people that we shouldn't forgive. But think about that.