TO GIVE UNSELFISHLY

We often hear that if we want peace of mind, we'll not judge.

Personally, I think in that regard our woes start with our trying to be the Buddha or to be Christ Jesus or to be Mohammad before we ever learn how to be who we are. And that takes some learning, which isn't all that hard once we get the hang of it.

The hard part comes when we find we need to accept what we find, i.e., who we are...just exactly as we are. Too often the initial recognition sends us back to digging in our navel, looking (hoping) to find there another person who is easier to accept. Which just takes us away from learning how not to judge.

We learn how to "judge not" by accepting that what we see is always ourselves.

How do we learn that?  It helped me when I heard, "Write 'you are looking at the problem' on a piece of paper and tape it to your bathroom mirror."

From that, understanding ourselves as our only problem, we start to see that judging is looking in our bathroom mirror and not seeing our own self. Seeing, instead, Gertrude, Billy Bob, our long-dead grandmother, or whoever is currently "to blame" for our feelings of less-than...judged, in a word.

All of which takes me back to our trying to be one of the spiritual giants before we know what really any one of them was teaching. All the greats in spiritual literature or lore got and taught that love is the answer. Love for. We let it flow forth...for we have love within us given us before ever we breathed that first breath. It is the non-use of the love we have that convinces us we are in need of love.

We'll never not have love if we just give it, never judging that which comes back to us. To give unselfishly, judging neither the response nor the responder, is to have love unending...with twelve bushels-full left over.

Thank you.