When we judge, we can’t understand
How many times in any given day does the mind judge?
It judges people. It judges circumstances.
And the thing with judgment is that when we align with it, we lose the ability to understand.
When we judge someone, it is almost as though the mind has made a final decision about who they are. “That is who they are. Here is the box.”
But in that moment, we lose the ability to understand someone else. We innocently move away from curiosity.
We may find ourselves in conflict, as we try to either to prove to them that the world is the way we see it, or to disprove the way they see it.
But what if it does not have to be like that? What if it does not have to be like that for ourselves?
Our mind may judge our actions. The mind judges behaviours. The mind even judges its own judgments.
But whenever we are caught up in that, we lose the ability to understand what is really going on for us.
We are always doing what makes sense.
And through the power of insight, that can change.
Very often, the quickest way to keep a pattern in place is to judge it.
And although that is completely innocent, when we do that, we lose the ability to understand how the pattern we are battling with may actually be serving us at some level.
It is in that understanding that we are able to transcend and transform what makes sense to us right now, and step into a new world.
The way out of judgment is to smile at the mind when those judgements appear, and then, of course, not to align with the mind when it judges the fact that it is full of judgments.
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