Watch how your mind judges. Judgment comes, in part, out of your own
fear. You judge other people because you’re not comfortable in your own
being. By judging, you find out where you stand in relation to other
people. The judging mind is very divisive. It separates. Separation
closes your heart. If you close your heart to someone, you are
perpetuating your suffering and theirs. Shifting out of judgment means
learning to appreciate your predicament and their predicament with an
open heart instead of judging. Then you can allow yourself and others to
just be, without separation.
The only game in town is the game of
being, which includes both highs and lows. Every time you push
something away, it remains there. The pile under the rug gets very big.
Your lows turn out to be more interesting than your highs because they
are showing you where you’re not, where you have work to do.
You just say, “Thank you for teaching.” You don’t have to judge another being. You just have to work on yourself.
When
somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry is because
you’re holding on to how you think something is supposed to be. You’re
denying how it is. Then you see it’s the expectations of your own mind
that are creating your own hell. When you get frustrated because
something isn’t the way you thought it would be, examine the way you
thought, not just the thing that frustrates you. You’ll see that a lot
of your emotional suffering is created by your models of how you think
the universe should be and your inability to allow it to be as it is.
-Ram Dass
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