
An Imperative

“I think we don’t forgive because we’ve been either frightened into a guardedness of the heart or saddened into a hardened heart.”
This is from my all-time favorite Sylvia Boorstein talk. I’ve listened to it many times over the years. It’s had a transformative effect on me.
Talk: “Karma, Forgiveness & Equanimity”
From a friend of the author who is mentioned in the chapter, The Third Patriarch of Zen and the First Patriarch of Berkeley: