We're told to judge NOT from appearances & take no thought in order to walk the way of Illumined Being. It's not actually even a suggestion, it's a requirement to abide by Commandments 1 # 2. But let's be honest, it's nigh on impossible isn't it?!
Well I struggled too & I want to share with you what I learned from my mistakes & what I observe in Oneness Mentoring & not only why but HOW to walk effortlessly without judging. YEP, you read it correctly, WITHOUT judging, not even a little bit!
Judgement is a hellish experience which proves the decision for separation & thus equals suffering. It is a self imposed fantasy based on assumptions from which you are already liberated in Truth & you can KNOW this Absolute Liberation at light speed if you want to.
Let's firstly understand what judgement is: If you use any label, description, idea or concept about ANY thing at all, that's judging! If you have an opinion or preference, that's judging. If you think there is good & bad, right & wrong, you're judging. If you have a personal identity, you're judging. ALL of this is off track, out of Reality & completely UN-True.
The Truth is imperturbable; ie YOU are imperturbably Divine in Truth & knowing 'this' is the purpose of Life, yours to know ASAP which makes Living in EVERY SINGLE BREATH Divine!
There just isn't such a thing as good or bad judgement, there's no such thing as judgement (PERIOD) in Truth. All is One Perfect Whole, what is there to judge? You realize when you judge you're judging YOU! "I AM THAT"...
Judgement is just a symptom of the acceptance of an erroneous (impossible) identity; ie misidentification. Judgement only appears possible because we've already accepted an assumption of separate identity (person-hood can be disproved with a couple of key questions in inquiry if you want a dash of Divine Sanity) & judgement comes as part of the package. Most don't even realise they're judging it has become such an ingrained habit the veil of self deception is thick indeed. I get it, I was there once too. The Truth really IS right where you are, you are indeed standing on Holy Sacred Ground because "I" is inescapably Holy.
For those on the path of Truth Enlightenment, we must become aware of judgement & use it as a diagnostic tool to unravel from misperception & misidentification to Allow for the organic Revelation of the True One Self. When all that appears false disappears, it is the Luminescent Self that remains. You can smudge out Life, even with a dream of death!
We're told by the Masters to judge not at all, not judge better, but judge NOT! This is not only because judgement is the primary veil preventing instant Self-Revelation, but because we just don't have the capacity to judge.
Judgement & Truth cannot co-exist, there is no law in the universe to sustain the reality of 2 things in the one place! When we're judging we're deeply deluded (by choice) & the door is tightly shut to Truth.
We cannot accept the appearance of 'things' at all & think we're on track in Oneness. It's not possible & those that attempt to do so get more & more frustrated & delay the inevitable Awakening to Bliss. There is no reality to anything that seems to have outward appearing existence of itself. NO thing exists independently of the observer. We have to get far enough back in Consciousness to see this as a fact because appearances are deceiving! This is the mechanics of Life Beloved, when you 'see' how it works you simply work WITH it; aka Abide in Commandment 1 & 2.
Righteous Judgement as referred to in the Bible is only possible in Full Knowledge & that's the business of Omniscience. Righteous Judgement has been declared & ALL that God Created is Goooooooooood! That's You! As an advanced student you're already well beyond the sperm & egg theory, Life is the parent of Life! What you think you are is the belief you've already undone to get to this stage & to rise up into the lane of One.
What God didn't Create & thus is nothing at all, are the ideas that remain the prison of our own making in having accepted error as real (ie separation from the One) & judgement is the means that unquestioned identity & the crazy auto-hypnosis of the collective mesmeric unconscious remains active & activated as our very experience of Being.
Being & experience are the same thing, don't be fooled by the spelling. Misidentification instigates a magic trick of epic self deceptive proportions that makes the magic of Houdini look puny! Part of the trick we 'buy' is the illusion of time & space which has no reality as Truth students discover quite naturally in accepting True Identity & letting the imaginary character fall into the nothingness from whence it 'seemed' to appear out of nowhere.
Remember always that there is only One Cause & Effect simultaneously Answered.
It is very common for Truth students to know about 'judging not' & even thinking they are complying BUT if there is any 'personal' sense at all, any hint of being triggered by anything, judgement HAS occurred which hides the acceptance of separate 'personal' identity. This is the impossible problem which then has us distracted in a dream of misplaced cause & effect, focused on fixing the wrong thing perpetually!
Judging not by appearances is not simply a suggested course of action, it is an absolutely mandatory issue of compliance in order to enter the straight & narrow of Awakening. This would be why it's so critical & why we bang on about it so repetitively in our sessions.
The 'how-to' stop of judging by appearances is NOT to worry about judging at all, it's really just the symptom, the messenger & there's no use shooting the messenger is there!
As always, it is the Glorious Omnipotent Truth that has already set us free & so the answer is to abide In & As the Truth.
Judgement stems from misidentification & is remedied in accepting True Identity, there has never been another. Living in True Identity ENDS the cycle of the delusion of judgement in its tracks. Judge NOT is effortless, it's not even a thing, when you stay in the lane of Truth-full Being.
When you Accept (fully & entirely) what you really are, judgement is over. And you must Accept True Identity to KNOW True Identity in the Riches of the Kingdom of Heaven in the fullest measure. There is no person who is Spiritual, this is the duality spoken of as the imaginary source of all suffering, there are not 2, there is only One. One is Whole & Complete, nothing to judge, just Being in Eternal Divine Expression.
This Allows the flood of Peace that passeth understanding to begin flowing & saturating experience. May you know 'this' toute suite Beloved! In the absence of judgement (the absence of ego) we come to 'see' clearly & recognise that ALL is given as a Gift of Grace & there is NO Limit!
Yeeeesss! I tried so hard to Judge not & it was frustratingly impossible! But no one had ever told me that it wasnt the problem & only a symptom, remedied always in & AS the Truth. Darkness doesn't need to be dealt with. It vanishes in the Light...
Thank you for this clarity. "judge not" is impossible from the seat of personhood. If the misidentification isn't addressed the cycle of judgement continues - nothing changes, Heaven remains hidden! Judgment ends when I accept what I am NOW and BE that without compromise.