THE BEAUTY OF JUDGEMENTS I have judgements, but I am not judgemental. I don’t judge judgements as ‘true’ or ‘right’, that’s all. They are only thoughts innocently passing through awareness. They are only opinions, perspectives, ways of seeing that can easily change. They are not wrong or harmful in themselves. They are not unarguable facts. When we believe that our judgements are ‘reality’, when we confuse our judgements with the full picture, we stop listening, stop being curious, stop paying attention to what is ALIVE in the moment. We reduce something living and ever-changing to a ‘thing’, a simplistic object. We become hard and inflexible, and even arrogant. We “know”. This is the beginning of violence. The trick is not to get rid of all judgements, or judge all judgements as ‘bad’ or ‘unspiritual’, or pretend that you don’t have judgements, but to see judgements AS judgements, to call them what they are. Then you are no longer the judge, no longer judgemental by nature, but you are the compassionate awareness of judgements as they arise, stay for a while, and pass. You have no fixed nature. You are alive. You realise that you don’t ‘have’ judgements; you don’t cause their appearance. You simply allow all judgements to come and go spontaneously in your loving and receptive awareness, and you don’t cling to them or push them away... or confuse them with reality. And dont forget, judging judgements as bad or wrong is the biggest judgement of all! - Jeff Foster
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:34:36 +0000
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