Judging means making a comparison between ”what is” and ”what should be”. You are dissatisfied with the current reality. This applies to your emotions, but also to the things that others do or the things that happen at all. Judgment also means confusing someone’s unconscious behavior with who that person is, or projecting your own unconsciousness onto someone and confusing that with who that person is. Not to judge is to see that the behavior of other people is pure conditioning: it is not who they are, but who they pretend to be. Start by not judging yourself anymore. Start by working on having complete acceptance. However, not judging does…

Good or Bad. Right or Wrong. Easy or Difficult. Every day we are surrounded by judgments, whether it’s on the television or in our minds. I try my best to be non-judgmental. I practice listening and making space for other points of view even if I don’t share them. But every now and then, I fall into judgment again. Judgment is one of those qualities, like anger, that most spiritual perspectives try to avoid. All our emotions have an adaptive purpose – each of them is there for a reason. Trying to ignore them is like refusing to use our built-in internal compass. So what is our judgment for? What…