12-07-2018, 12:00 AM
Sure, my post wasn't directed towards your experiences either and as I said any way is okay unless you say it's not.
In the AP of clarity if you stop judgment you don't react any more (in the same way, from the same layers and habits, and I am calling this 'acting' and not 'reacting' - a functional distinction that is helping me to distinguish it.
Judgements by themselves can be a reaction is what I was saying above. They're just as any other reaction or action. I don't have to act to judge nor will reactions completely disappear if I stop judging. It is just an energetic movement. It's either consciously executed or not or yes, consciously or unconsciously not executed. Just like running or walking or sitting or lying.
For example I don't have to judge a lion coming towards me with the intent to kill as scary in order to immediately get on my toes. It will be an instinctive reaction on my part to do so. Reacting is not bad either, it can save your life as long as its properly setup.
I like what you said here: "Being non-judgemental is no more than holding a mind open to the possibility that you may be wrong. " (but also, sometimes you just don't know.)
True and yet the expression "Don't judge a book by its covers." is not out there for no reason.
What I am trying to point out is that we can change the way we judge. We don't need it to always link to so many things - like our self-image.
And I agree, it's definitely good to have a sense of control over any part or the totality of yourself including judgements. The more aware "the better". (lololl).
I prefer acting to indulging in explanations and thoughts. Intend to see what takes/where you spend most of your energy and start cutting that off, intend to save energy. You'll see that useless things start falling out one by one. Be impeccable. Start by pretending you are if you don't know how to start.
All I'm saying is that we're all of it. The ****, the beauty, the hate, the love, the ignorance, we are all of it and we have to own it then we can easily maneuver in it and decide when to be what and why.
By the way only if I quote you do I address you specifically. Otherwise I'm just talking to myself throwing in stuff here and there as I did with my earlier post. I just used yours as a reference something to pit against my experience so there's some contrast.
This is a bunch of non-sense. (Oops.)
In the AP of clarity if you stop judgment you don't react any more (in the same way, from the same layers and habits, and I am calling this 'acting' and not 'reacting' - a functional distinction that is helping me to distinguish it.
Judgements by themselves can be a reaction is what I was saying above. They're just as any other reaction or action. I don't have to act to judge nor will reactions completely disappear if I stop judging. It is just an energetic movement. It's either consciously executed or not or yes, consciously or unconsciously not executed. Just like running or walking or sitting or lying.
For example I don't have to judge a lion coming towards me with the intent to kill as scary in order to immediately get on my toes. It will be an instinctive reaction on my part to do so. Reacting is not bad either, it can save your life as long as its properly setup.
I like what you said here: "Being non-judgemental is no more than holding a mind open to the possibility that you may be wrong. " (but also, sometimes you just don't know.)
True and yet the expression "Don't judge a book by its covers." is not out there for no reason.
What I am trying to point out is that we can change the way we judge. We don't need it to always link to so many things - like our self-image.
And I agree, it's definitely good to have a sense of control over any part or the totality of yourself including judgements. The more aware "the better". (lololl).
I prefer acting to indulging in explanations and thoughts. Intend to see what takes/where you spend most of your energy and start cutting that off, intend to save energy. You'll see that useless things start falling out one by one. Be impeccable. Start by pretending you are if you don't know how to start.
All I'm saying is that we're all of it. The ****, the beauty, the hate, the love, the ignorance, we are all of it and we have to own it then we can easily maneuver in it and decide when to be what and why.
By the way only if I quote you do I address you specifically. Otherwise I'm just talking to myself throwing in stuff here and there as I did with my earlier post. I just used yours as a reference something to pit against my experience so there's some contrast.
This is a bunch of non-sense. (Oops.)