We do not need to beat up on ourselves for our attack mind thoughts...in fact, continuing to live there is staying in the reasoning mind. We'd best realize that those judgmental thoughts (of our own self in our rues, regrets and remorses and of others in setting our bar so high for them) is the tangled skein we are taught to give to God to untangle and return to us as love.
I feel comforted that I had that thought and then read: Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield [writes]: . . . So many of us carry a kind of unspoken assumption that something is very, very wrong with us, that we’re damaged, guilty, and unlovable. Stepping into our divinity—acknowledging and accepting our fundamental nobility—is the ultimate paradigm shift. * * * May we point our feet toward this heaven and begin the hard and necessary work of walking there.
My spiritual goal is and has been to find no fault in them...them being you, me, my smart phone, Comcast, the president, etc., et al.
Pointing my feet toward heaven, to me, is finding no fault to judge, but recognizing the ungod when I see it and seeking to bring that to the Father within to be righted.
The hard and necessary work of walking there, usually begins with self...detaching from the ego-ugly I see in me in order to accept (welcome?) the ego-ugly I'm judging in you. That, I'm guessing, is stepping into our divinity—acknowledging and accepting our fundamental nobility.
To know that as a goal may well be as close as we ever get on this plane. Ah, pray Thank You...that will suffice.
Thank you.
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