comment on forgiveness..

[Unity]

Anger and hatred can maybe make one safer in case of imminent threat, but not sure it really help in preventing future issues, unless you don't have other mean to express or communicate this fear, and beside this, negative emotions mostly hurt yourself more than anything else.

It was easier for me to understand the concept of forgiveness through budhism, with the idea that lucidity in contemplation can be disturbed by presence of past karma, and need for control on events resulting from fear of a past event reproducing. Releasing  this need for control which often come from a feeling of insecurity based on past events can be usefull in some stage to attain zen.

Forgiveness is somehow tied to the concept of karma in hinduism/budhism, and how to become free from the chain of karma. Which involve preventing the mind to construct a casual analysis of the present based on memories and past event, which is triggered by anxiety often, and that some mecanism of the mind can be triggered into action automatically which prevent the zen state of maximum attention of the present like it is at the moment you perceive it, rather than tainted by lot of memory that add stress or anxiety to the perception where it's just based on some automatic reaction of the mind due to past event that can be unrelated to the present situation.

In egyptian mythology, having heavy hearth mean being in bad health due to inability to process past event, or having hearth burdened by past events, which can have also physiological effect, and being light hearthed is similar to a feeling of innocence, and when the person is fully alive in the present with maximum intensity.

Anger and hatred will more in the absolute lead to isolation or retreat from the environment, rather than being fully present in it.