Meditation
The article: Meditation
Chapter 19
The meditation-object: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us"
The prayer "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those that trespass against us" covers a very comprehensive area of meditation.
To forgive one's enemies is certainly not a trivial matter, for it contributes to creating the basis for the person's fate.
Without forgiving one's enemies there would be no absolutely lasting happy fate.
The originator of the "Lord's Prayer" has elsewhere expressed how the relationship to one's enemies must be in order that one can fulfil the law of love and become one with God in the following words: "Love your enemies, bless them who curse you, do good to those who hate you and pray for them that offend and persecute you that you may be children of your father in Heaven.
He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous...".
For many people concentration on this prayer will be the only thing needful, even if they perhaps do not know it yet and therefore live in enmity with one person or another, and have to live with all the resulting worries, sorrows and sufferings.