07-17-2008, 12:00 AM
Hi Doktor Green,
Good post and nice to hear from you again.
One thing I would like to add to your subject of judgement/discernment. Something I have noticed over the years during meditation and when practicing not-doing
and/or stopping the internal dialog.
These practices help us to look at the world without predjudice (pre-judging). To look at ourselves and people around us objectively. It is more difficult to
look at ourselves in this way (as if we were just sombody else), but well worth the effort. During recapitulation, (mind awareness as my teacher used to call
it) we can observe our thoughts as if they were the thoughts of someone else. As if the events of our past happened to someone else.
Approaching any self examination while in this "objective" or "non-judgemental" state of mind is necessary to release caught up energies
and establishes a new way of looking at people. We are all in the same boat. Humility is the best word for it.
And humility, in my opinion is nothing more than an awareness of Truth.
At another non-personal level this faculty of judgement or discernment is necessary to survive this world. (We all learn early the difference between a red and
green light and that gravity can kill us.)
But to suspend this faculty of judgement (for periods of time) is the essence of "not doing" and "stopping the internal dialog" and can
allow us to realize the illusive nature of the Tonal. That it is illusion of sorts. And so the possibility of contemplating other descriptions or ways of
percieving this world.
We had to learn depth perception as infants. It gives this world of moving shapes and colors meaning.
We also had to learn to discern those moving colors and shapes as separate objects and even as other people.
This cohesion begins to come apart or lose it's almighty hold on us with the practices of not-doing and stopping the internal dialog. And it can bring us
back to the perception of infants.
It is interesting that Jesus, when he was brought an infant to bless by it's mother said; "Suffer little children to come unto me for of such is the
kingdom of heaven."
And it is also very interesting that the word infant actually means "Not Speaking." (in, not, fans, fari, speaking.)
To suspend judgement in our view of ourselves, human relations and our perception of this world of matter can lead us to extraordinary things.
Good post and nice to hear from you again.
One thing I would like to add to your subject of judgement/discernment. Something I have noticed over the years during meditation and when practicing not-doing
and/or stopping the internal dialog.
These practices help us to look at the world without predjudice (pre-judging). To look at ourselves and people around us objectively. It is more difficult to
look at ourselves in this way (as if we were just sombody else), but well worth the effort. During recapitulation, (mind awareness as my teacher used to call
it) we can observe our thoughts as if they were the thoughts of someone else. As if the events of our past happened to someone else.
Approaching any self examination while in this "objective" or "non-judgemental" state of mind is necessary to release caught up energies
and establishes a new way of looking at people. We are all in the same boat. Humility is the best word for it.
And humility, in my opinion is nothing more than an awareness of Truth.
At another non-personal level this faculty of judgement or discernment is necessary to survive this world. (We all learn early the difference between a red and
green light and that gravity can kill us.)
But to suspend this faculty of judgement (for periods of time) is the essence of "not doing" and "stopping the internal dialog" and can
allow us to realize the illusive nature of the Tonal. That it is illusion of sorts. And so the possibility of contemplating other descriptions or ways of
percieving this world.
We had to learn depth perception as infants. It gives this world of moving shapes and colors meaning.
We also had to learn to discern those moving colors and shapes as separate objects and even as other people.
This cohesion begins to come apart or lose it's almighty hold on us with the practices of not-doing and stopping the internal dialog. And it can bring us
back to the perception of infants.
It is interesting that Jesus, when he was brought an infant to bless by it's mother said; "Suffer little children to come unto me for of such is the
kingdom of heaven."
And it is also very interesting that the word infant actually means "Not Speaking." (in, not, fans, fari, speaking.)
To suspend judgement in our view of ourselves, human relations and our perception of this world of matter can lead us to extraordinary things.