11.03.06
Judgement as the Authority Problem
Posted in Musings at 9:59 pm by Linda 
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To judge is to re-enact the authority problem. It is an existential gesture of “ I want it thus”. It is a gesture that implies there is an “I” to judge, a person who understands something and a person who understands or sees something correctly. It is a gesture that presumes to select from and reject parts of reality as it sees it. It is a gesture that usually leads to a behaviour which is coercive or which moodily sulks about the way things are.
We have been told that our only reality is God created. Acceptance of that is non-conflict and peace. We a have also been told while time and space appear to be the case our only purpose is to forgive. There is no thought in that nor is there any selectivity. If either arises in awareness we can be sure we have once again usurped function. The Holy Spirit judges through us and not by us.
What does that mean in terms of our experience? It means whatever thought, image or sense of self appears to be the case is looked at gently and given up. We stand back and become quiet.
There is no one to judge, only the quiet judgement of letting go. There is no one to “see” and make distinctions. There is only seeing. There is no one to busily engage in doing and organising the way things should be. There is only doing.
To do anything more than simply be in the midst of all that seems to be the case is to hold a thought and to assume an identity. Defensiveness must arise because what is identified with is taken to be ones very self. There can be no peace where there seems to be a self and a not-self.
In this Holy Instant we choose the strength and peace of being or the fragility and war of “how I see it”. Spirit is always and very gently reminding us of the simplicity of the real choice. Thank God.