(© RKP, 1958)Judge Not...
Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.
Judging is an automatic response of the ego asserting itself: in so far as pure-intelligence (buddhi) has reduced the power of the ego the automatic response to stimulus is understanding.
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The Buddha Nature (Bd.): The Atman (Ved.): The Father (Chr.)
The 'I' is in every act - but not in its extinction.
The 'I' is not an object, an other. I am not object (without), I am subject (within).
'I am ...' is real, but the predicate (whatever it may be) is unreal.
There is only one reality that we can know: that reality is 'I am'.
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Disciplines
What is the use of working to eliminate the manifestations of the ego (which is what is called discipline)?
You do not put out a light by hiding it behind a screen.
The treatment of symptoms does not cure a disease. Effects disappear when causes are removed, causes do not disappear when effects are suppressed.
Reduce the ego and its manifestations will vanish.
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No action is right or wrong in itself, or by virtue of belonging to a category of actions so classed for purposes of social order.
Every action should be an adequate response to circumstances, whether that be slaughter or self-sacrifice.
Since our egos hinder us from responding adequately to circumstances we are well-advised to abide by the classification into 'good' and 'bad' devised for purposes of social order, but do not let us imagine that they are really such.
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