Eva Kor values

Eva Kors on why she hugged this man

Eva Kors interview (click on this) on Radio 4 last week after she had hugged Oscar Groning in the court where he is being tried for Nazi war crimes.  Listen to this before it leaves the BBC website. She speaks as the victim and survivor of Josef Mengele's experiments on twins at Auschwitz.  What is extraordinary about her is her rationale for forgiveness.  Forgiveness has set her free and many people can't understand that.  What forgiveness might do for the perpetrator isn't something she knows but forgiveness for her is an act of being free of hatred and the wish for revenge.  

I have retrieved the blog from the Butty dog especially to make certain that anyone who has any difficulty with forgiveness can read about why it works and to say that listening to her made sense of why I meditate.  The whole science of meditation is to set the mind free, to find the space where consciousness isn't clouded by thoughts or desires, good ones or bad.  I have found that not allowing the bad thoughts, literally banning them from my meditation works and hey, the good ones, I just say to them "wait and I'll think about you later".  The good ones are mostly obedient but the bad ones, the lurking feelings of justified or unjustified anger really do know that they're not allowed in if you address them forcefully.  I think they know that they have no place in the real you and that's what you are trying to realise each time you switch off from the character you seem to be and turn to the one you somewhere and somehow know that you are.  I expect that the Butty dog will be back, he enjoyed blogging too much to go back to just lying beside the computer.