Non-judgment
Universal principle #10
At our request, we have been carefully taught to evaluate and judge much of what we experience. However, “right” and “wrong,” “good” and “bad” are just beliefs, disguises for the unconditional love that is always present. The truth is that everything that occurs is just another event or circumstance that we have created in our imagination. Judging something keeps whatever we judge the way we judge it. Also, judging anyone or anything tells us that we are judging ourselves in the same way. Judging creates discomfort that can only be relieved by opening our hearts, first to the judgment and then to the person or thing we have judged. Freeing this openhearted energy leads to the joyful feeling of unconditional love for ourselves as the wholeness and completeness of who we really are.
Often judgment is the thing that creates what we do not want to experience. We are meaning making machines. We make up stories for most of the events of our lives. These stories are our judgment of what has occurred, is happening or might take place in the future. This judging keeps us locked into the stories and often prevents us from the life that we desire to have. Of course, we often judge ourselves the harshest. We sometimes are not aware of this and cannot figure out why life is not flowing. Remember the line from the song The Wings that Fly us Home?
Is a hero’s blood more righteous than a hobo’s sip of wine?
Here is an excerpt from the book I am writing called The Gospel According to John……….Denver.
I don’t think so. In our society we have it that those who succeed are more valuable than those who do not. It’s analogous to saying that our left eye is more valuable than our right one. They are both valuable and when working in tandem they give us greater vision. We have created life on Earth that makes it more difficult for some people than others. “To the victor go the spoils”, has been an edict and way of life for centuries. In the United States we have a fixation on material and societal success. Hardly anyone can name who came in second in any major sporting event. A team could win all of its games until the final one and consider itself a failure in our judgment of success.
This begs the question; what is spiritual? Most of us would not consider a hobo’s sip of wine as equal to a hero’s blood. We have been caught in our mind’s trap to judge everything. There is only oneness. This oneness doesn’t judge except in our conscious mind. The oneness just is. As part of the oneness we choose to judge. However, our judgments do not always serve us. The hobo and the hero both left the womb with the same potential to create their life experience. They both made choices. Those choices led them to exactly where they are now. Choices are just choices. It is we, who say the choices are good or bad. We could disagree about whether they serve us or not. It is just our opinion. From the perspective of oneness they are the same, just choices. We get to have a huge breakthrough when we can suspend our judgments and just notice. When we notice and refrain from judgment we maintain the energy of oneness. From my heart to yours, Thomas
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