It is a remarkably beautiful Morning. It is cool and Sunny and the most amazing thing, I finished the chores this Morning, before I realized, there were no mosquitoes!
We are instructed to give up judgement, if we want to achieve happiness and grow spiritually. I imagine, we all, agree on that. It is easy, right? You catch yourself judging and you dispense with the thought. I know this blogger has made it sound easy and it is for some people. How about the judgements you don't know you are making? How about judgements that seem to be built into your very identity?
I will use an example of my own family. My Mother and other adults in my family would never tolerate any pejorative slur on any race, religion, nationality etc. Using those key words risked getting your mouth washed out with soap. Yet, they didn't have any trouble judging the judgers. They didn't seem to catch their own sense of superiority, as they looked around them, and found themselves a little better than most. To complicate matters, their superiority was based on some sense of low self-esteem. Some sense that they were not quite able to make it, in the world, as well as others. This second feeling was well masked by the feeling of superiority, which became the excuse for everything.
Growing up in a family, you adopt the open and surface prejudices, as well as the ones, that make up the undercurrent. When we decide to give up judgment of others, it is relatively easy to see those surface judgments. The trouble with those undercurrent judgements, is that since the family denied them, they are absorbed by the child as part of their ego identity. This is an area where I can only use myself as an example. As I was growing up, I rejected the superiority idea. I could see the "emperor wore no clothes". I absorbed the low self esteem idea. I could only feel it. I could not see where it came from, until much later in my life. Despite, that I knew the superiority idea was nonsense, I used it as a defense against the feelings of inferiority. Does anybody really feel superior, because they really think they are superior? I haven't.
In the process of giving up judgment we will come against those automatic hidden judgements that have become part of our identity[ego structure]. If one has a significant other, that accompanies them on their spiritual journey, they may be happy to be part of one's enlightenment. If we listen, without defensiveness, we will learn.
Our biggest struggle is giving up self judgement. How we judge others is easier to see. The judging of self, often comes in feelings, that surface now and then, they are not always easy to interpret. If we accept, that we are lovable, and those feelings are an untruth, we will be able to diffuse them and gradually leave them behind.
The energy of Love is very high, right now. Now is the time to recognize our lovableness. The best way to deal with self judgement is to accept ourselves, warts and all. We are all great beings of light. We have no need to regret our ego identities. They serve as teaching devices for each other. We will relinquish them when they are no longer useful. Let us love and appreciate ourselves. Know that our Oneness grows and our egos attenuate.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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