JUDGEMENT

We are having a little spell of warm weather. It supposed to get into the high 60F today. It has been foggy, though, and somewhat dreary. It is getting brighter now, perhaps the Sun will come out.

I have been siting here, at the computer, seeing what will come to me, regarding the blog for today. It has been mostly pleasant, I have been practicing, keeping my mind in the present, no past thoughts, no thoughts of the future. I have been listening to conversations going on around me and participating somewhat.

I have been aware of how the slightest degree of judgement affects my consciousness and my body. When I was listening to a conversation, and if I made a judgement, about anything that was said, I felt what can only be described as pain. Pain might not be the right word. It is not really physical; but, it is something that separates me from the peace I was experiencing. I noticed someone else's emotionally laden judgement, was like a sharp electric bolt through me; that did feel physical. {Noah had his car stolen and the conversation centered around its recovery}

So there was a lot of emotion in the conversation, and my response may have been heightened.; but I have been aware that judgements, ours and other peoples, effect our consciousness. They can pass through our minds rather harmlessly, or they can lodge, and generate energy, that separates us from our peace, and colors our perception.

Our judgements, create wedges, between us, and in ourselves. Judgement keeps us from knowing who we are and certainly affects our perception of the other.

Many of us, dream of a world, where we can know our oneness with humanity. It begins with us. I have experienced the peace that comes with a quiet mind. I think we all have; judgements can be slight, just wavelets or they can be gales that wipe way peace and well being.

Judgements of others, sometimes disguise themselves as protective, we think we are defending ourselves from a possible injury, but we only succeed at isolating ourselves further from humanity, from Oneness. If we are One, we are One, any attack on another, is an attack upon ourselves.

This world invites the illusion of separation. The very fact that we are in separate bodies, that need care and seem vulnerable, accentuates our sense of being alone and separate. Why, we are having this experience, invites a whole different conversation. Perhaps, someday I will speculate about that. For now, we can practice seeing our Oneness. We can perceive everyone as love. We can know that, what we think we perceive, which is not love, is only the facade that each of us made to protect us from what we thought was dangerous.

I think many of us do not realize how much we judge. We try to avoid the big judgements of our neighbors, without being aware that our minds are often weighing and measuring everything. To be free of judgement is to be at peace. It feels like fresh air and it is an opening to love and joy.

Why are the most important tasks so simple, yet so difficult to do? It would seem so easy, to just stop judging. We can do it, little by little. We need to be ready with forgiveness, when we find ourselves judging. We are One. When we give up judging ourselves; we won't judge anybody.

Love and Peace, Gregg