Judgment
Judgment
The very idea of judging others is absolutely irreligious. Definitely your judgment is not only superficial but also inhuman. Your very effort to judge is nothing but a desire to condemn or a desire to praise.
Religions have given you ideas to judge others. All the religions have given you ideas about what is good, What is bad, what is right and what is wrong, Even what is virtue and what is sin. The religions have corrupted you because of these ideas. So all the religions have committed the crime of judging others1x
But who are you to judge?Who has given you the authority to judge anybody as a saint or as a sinner?
You don't have the eyes to look into the beings of people, In their inner turmoil, in their unconscious longings. All that you can see is their act. By single act or a few acts, you cannot judge the whole life of a person.You cannot see their consciousness, and without knowing their consciousness your judgment is not only superficial but also inhumane1x
You praise that which you want to become-it is your desire, your longing, and your lust for power, for prestige, for respectability. And you condemn that which you yourself want to, but you are afraid of the consequences; because you are a coward. So if you look at yourself, your judgments show much more about you than about the judged.
A man of true understanding is without judgment, Because he has neither repressed any desire nor has he any lust for power and prestige and respectability. He is clean and pure.
Do you have any idea what is wrong? What is wrong in one culture is right in another;
What is wrong in one century becomes right in an other century. What is right today may not be right tomorrow and what is right this moment may not remain right the next moment. Christians don't see anything wrong in drinking alcohol, Even Jesus himself was drinking alcohol, But Hindus are different, and Buddhists are different1x
Religions have given you ideas to judge others, fixed ideas. But life is never fixed.
No religion has given you the criterion. Life is such a flux- a continuous flow, changing directions, finding a path of which it has no knowledge and moving towards the ocean without any map, any guide.
So the first thing, of immense concern to me, is how to decide for yourself. Don't be bothered about others-their problem is their problem.Don't judge them; it is none of your business. But for yourself, what is the criterion?
~Sang-Bong Lee, Ph.D.
(Philosopher & Poet)
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