--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> > wrote: > > > > > Yes, which perhaps is another way of saying, don't waste time and > > energy judging others. > > Well, I'm not saying don't do it; I'm just trying to point out its > illusory, or more accurately self-reflective, basis. > > Because one lacks the appropriate reference > > points to others' lives -- as you point out. > > And because there is no other, as far as we can actually tell. There > is only self in various positions in space-time, superimposed upon > the (extra)ordinary Indescribable. > > But as much or more, its > > an unnecessary chatter of the mind, "this is good, he is bad, she is > > ok, that is good ..". One only needs to judge others if and when one > > must make a decision regarding that person. Whic is 1 out of 100 or > > 1/1000 common monkey-mind judgements. The others are idle chatter. > > (all apologies to monkeys). > > > > That we often can only see others from "our" own frame of reference, > > our cultural/religious/intellectual, emotional frameworks, perhaps > is > > a famine of imagination. I was thinking this morning that this > > quality of empathy and really "seeing" from anothers' view needs to > be > > cultured in childhood when the mind is nimbe and formative. > > > > I saw a squirrel dart in from of my car and he was "terrified", > > running valiantly across the road as I swerved to miss it (which I > > did.) The "reality" of the situation was "my view": little tiny > > squirrel, regular sized car. <snip> > > Yeah, it's funny -- often to me, when I see these little fellows jump > out in front of my car, they seem to be playing an ecstatic game of > tag! Or "missed me, missed me, hahahahaha!" As you say, just my > mental superimposition :-) > This whole "judge/don't judge" dynamic intrigues me. There seems to be a skill in action involved tied directly to our ability to develop or not attributes of character, through judging/not judging.
In other words, make a judgement to move forward, yet hesitate too long in either direction and it unhelpfully skews either the direction of the momentum or the speed of it. Curious stuff. As you say Rory, it is all us interacting with us. And yet to fully honor us, we must engage with even the "sticky bits" of us.
