Jasmine,

That line means to me, “component of freedom being overlooked”. I don’t think everything in buddhism boils down to forgiveness, although if you did interpret it that way, chances are you’d still have a free flying life. Forgiveness helps us step aside from afflictive views, eroding their solid knot like appearance in our life’s momentum. Said differently, we’re walking through a garden and accidentally kicking stones (grasping, holding painful/pleasureable phenomena)… forgiveness for the stones, our feet, our distracted minds, the garden for having stones… let’s us turn our attention to the bruise, pulling away from the many arising thoughts and feelings that cling to the kicking, which gives the stone the appearance of the intention of hurting our foot. Buddha taught that its empty of affliction on its side. Forgiveness helps us become at peace with the garden, and so forth. Its just a stone after all… busy being a stone.

As far as developing a view of energy, in my opinion, that’s something most of us have when we’re not too busy with our own stories. Compassion is co-resonance, or co-suffering… the space in the mind to patiently allow a seed sprout in the heart. We help make that space (attune to it) by growing loving feelings, friendliness… the mind opens, and in the open blue sky, plenty of information arises alongside words. Said differently, after spending enough time in the kitchen, its not that tough to taste, understand, and relate to the components of another’s meal. Consider “Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism” by Chogyam Trungpa, if interested in learning to chew mindfully. Then its as direct as “oh, you want apples? Here’s one, and by the way, you can plant apple seeds… the mind is fertile, growing.”

With warmth,
Matt