Que : In day-to-day life there is no exception to the rule of truth.

Nobody
is pardoned. Dhamma is the law par excellence. Why then is it said in Dhamma
that those who make mistakes should be pardoned?

SNG : They should be pardoned because it is in your own interest.

If somebody has done something which has hurt or harmed you, and you have
animosity towards this person, you have started harming yourself.

So to save yourself from that harm, it is better to forgive and forget.

This is in your own interest.

If this person also realizes, "I have made a mistake, and I wont repeat that
in the future," and keeps practising Vipassana, he or she will come out of
misery.

You are giving this person a pardon for your own benefit, because this helps
you to come out of your feelings of revenge.

Que : In day-to-day life there is no exception to the rule of truth. Nobody

is pardoned. Dhamma is the law par excellence. Why then is it said in Dhamma
that those who make mistakes should be pardoned?

SNG : They should be pardoned because it is in your own interest.

If somebody has done something which has hurt or harmed you, and you have
animosity towards this person, you have started harming yourself.

So to save yourself from that harm, it is better to forgive and forget.

This is in your own interest.

If this person also realizes, "I have made a mistake, and I wont repeat that
in the future," and keeps practising Vipassana, he or she will come out of
misery.

You are giving this person a pardon for your own benefit, because this helps
you to come out of your feelings of revenge.

Que : In day-to-day life there is no exception to the rule of truth. Nobody

is pardoned. Dhamma is the law par excellence. Why then is it said in Dhamma
that those who make mistakes should be pardoned?

SNG : They should be pardoned because it is in your own interest.

If somebody has done something which has hurt or harmed you, and you have
animosity towards this person, you have started harming yourself.

So to save yourself from that harm, it is better to forgive and forget.

This is in your own interest.

If this person also realizes, "I have made a mistake, and I wont repeat that
in the future," and keeps practising Vipassana, he or she will come out of
misery.

You are giving this person a pardon for your own benefit, because this helps
you to come out of your feelings of revenge.

Que : In day-to-day life there is no exception to the rule of truth. Nobody

is pardoned. Dhamma is the law par excellence. Why then is it said in Dhamma
that those who make mistakes should be pardoned?

SNG : They should be pardoned because it is in your own interest.

If somebody has done something which has hurt or harmed you, and you have
animosity towards this person, you have started harming yourself.

So to save yourself from that harm, it is better to forgive and forget.

This is in your own interest.

If this person also realizes, "I have made a mistake, and I wont repeat that
in the future," and keeps practising Vipassana, he or she will come out of
misery.

You are giving this person a pardon for your own benefit, because this helps
you to come out of your feelings of revenge.

Que : In day-to-day life there is no exception to the rule of truth. Nobody

is pardoned. Dhamma is the law par excellence. Why then is it said in Dhamma
that those who make mistakes should be pardoned?

SNG : They should be pardoned because it is in your own interest.

If somebody has done something which has hurt or harmed you, and you have
animosity towards this person, you have started harming yourself.

So to save yourself from that harm, it is better to forgive and forget.

This is in your own interest.

If this person also realizes, "I have made a mistake, and I wont repeat that
in the future," and keeps practising Vipassana, he or she will come out of
misery.

You are giving this person a pardon for your own benefit, because this helps
you to come out of your feelings of revenge.

Que : In day-to-day life there is no exception to the rule of truth. Nobody

is pardoned. Dhamma is the law par excellence. Why then is it said in Dhamma
that those who make mistakes should be pardoned?

SNG : They should be pardoned because it is in your own interest.

If somebody has done something which has hurt or harmed you, and you have
animosity towards this person, you have started harming yourself.

So to save yourself from that harm, it is better to forgive and forget.

This is in your own interest.

If this person also realizes, "I have made a mistake, and I wont repeat that
in the future," and keeps practising Vipassana, he or she will come out of
misery.

You are giving this person a pardon for your own benefit, because this helps
you to come out of your feelings of revenge.

Que : In day-to-day life there is no exception to the rule of truth. Nobody

is pardoned. Dhamma is the law par excellence. Why then is it said in Dhamma
that those who make mistakes should be pardoned?

SNG : They should be pardoned because it is in your own interest.

If somebody has done something which has hurt or harmed you, and you have
animosity towards this person, you have started harming yourself.

So to save yourself from that harm, it is better to forgive and forget.

This is in your own interest.

If this person also realizes, "I have made a mistake, and I wont repeat that
in the future," and keeps practising Vipassana, he or she will come out of
misery.

You are giving this person a pardon for your own benefit, because this helps
you to come out of your feelings of revenge.

Que : In day-to-day life there is no exception to the rule of truth. Nobody

is pardoned. Dhamma is the law par excellence. Why then is it said in Dhamma
that those who make mistakes should be pardoned?

SNG : They should be pardoned because it is in your own interest.

If somebody has done something which has hurt or harmed you, and you have
animosity towards this person, you have started harming yourself.

So to save yourself from that harm, it is better to forgive and forget.

This is in your own interest.

If this person also realizes, "I have made a mistake, and I wont repeat that
in the future," and keeps practising Vipassana, he or she will come out of
misery.

You are giving this person a pardon for your own benefit, because this helps
you to come out of your feelings of revenge.