I've had some mussing regarding this topic this past year and I found it to apply in the exact ay that you've sketched out. It is the immediate action of judging that turns you into judged. It is a beautiful application of karma because by judging something you are denying yourself of something and one of the points of salvation and enlightenment seem to be to be all inclusive. Of course this doesn't mean hugging the ones you disagree with but I think there is quite a bit of difference between that and holding judgement in your consciousness.
In a way also judgement, which in this case I will differentiate from criticism, is a way of denying yourself of something. Perhaps it is because if we deny ourselves of something then we don't have to see something. I am reminded of the person that judges all the happy people, which does so because if he sees their happiness for what it is then he will see his misery and by not doing so he is denying himself of happiness! One of the basic things that I was taught is to do something you hate as joyfully as you can because if you do, then you will see how silly your visceral likes and dislikes are and thus shed some karma in the process. That doesn't mean we have to be blind and not have preferences, but there is a subtle yet important difference in having a keen conscious sense and an unconscious compulsion, which is more often than not based on carrying the weight of something.
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Date: 2021-09-30 02:17 am (UTC)I've had some mussing regarding this topic this past year and I found it to apply in the exact ay that you've sketched out. It is the immediate action of judging that turns you into judged. It is a beautiful application of karma because by judging something you are denying yourself of something and one of the points of salvation and enlightenment seem to be to be all inclusive. Of course this doesn't mean hugging the ones you disagree with but I think there is quite a bit of difference between that and holding judgement in your consciousness.
In a way also judgement, which in this case I will differentiate from criticism, is a way of denying yourself of something. Perhaps it is because if we deny ourselves of something then we don't have to see something. I am reminded of the person that judges all the happy people, which does so because if he sees their happiness for what it is then he will see his misery and by not doing so he is denying himself of happiness! One of the basic things that I was taught is to do something you hate as joyfully as you can because if you do, then you will see how silly your visceral likes and dislikes are and thus shed some karma in the process. That doesn't mean we have to be blind and not have preferences, but there is a subtle yet important difference in having a keen conscious sense and an unconscious compulsion, which is more often than not based on carrying the weight of something.
At least that is what this passage means to me.