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Last wednesday becoming 41 I woke up realizing that in order to keep my inner youth I had to change myself. It was not a realisation out of mental deduction but as a sudden awakening when opening my eyes. I realized that despite my ‘believe’ of so called non-judgmental attitude I judge every day. I realized that because of experiences I get ‘ideas’, these ideas are like clay shaped into ‘believes’ and these believes become my personal truth, MY truth, and from that truth I ‘judge’, not in a ‘bad’ way but nevertheless…even not in a bad way it is creating ridgid thinking, ridgid feelings, ridgid body,…
the child in me was dying, in order to turn that death I had to let go all of my past ideas, my believes and be open again…
Hi Wendy,
Happy birthday!
Your thoughts about the subtle judgement that is inherent in perception and concepts (my words, not yours) reminded me of similar things I have dealt with.
I have two thoughts about it:
1) From TTC, Chapter 1, Addiss& Lombardo translation:
“Nameless: the origin of heaven and earth.
Naming: the mother of ten thousand things.Empty of desire, perceive mystery.
Filled with desire, perceive manifestations.These two have the same source, but different names.
Call them both deep —
Deep and again deep:The gateway to all mystery”
To me, judgement is like naming and it is the mother of many things. While naming is more yang and creative, judgement is a false-yin controlled twist on that. So, in letting go of judging, I had to be careful to not throw out naming/intellect.
2) Alchemical.
When I find myself naming some part of me as “judgement” (which is just another judgement!), I describe its energetic qualities: contracting, metallic, hard, shiny, square, dark. I then look for opposite qualities of, in this case, expanding, firey, soft, matte, round, bright. I might look for those qualities in the same space/layer of my body, or I might look for them elsewhere in my body, and just let them learn from each other.Chris
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