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26-10-2021, 11:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Gem
The judgment is your own reaction creating fabrications of mind, and reaction perpetuates ego, so what you say is true, but in a different way.
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Yes there are different way's to skin a Cat
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26-10-2021, 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by sky123
A sense of 'Self' is necessary to judge others, imo.
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Sky123,
In order to judge/assess/diagnose others perhaps the mind is also necessary ? In addition to the ego ? Which plays the greater part ?
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26-10-2021, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by AbodhiSky
I liked this post as well: Had to shorten it a lot to two sentences but the whole post was nice to me.
There's some amazing posts in the threads about ego.
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Any way you could put the Post # and thread if it is so good?
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26-10-2021, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Molearner
Sky123,
In order to judge/assess/diagnose others perhaps the mind is also necessary ? In addition to the ego ? Which plays the greater part ?
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Can you separate them
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26-10-2021, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by sky123
Can you separate them
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Sky123,
We can clarify. When we say “in my judgement” it really means “in my opinion”…..it is based on the facts that we know. It is different with God…..being omniscient God has no opinions…..He does not have to allow for later facts to come to his attention. Judgement in the biblical sense is passing judgement on others…..that is why we are warned to not judge others. For true justice to occur all the facts must be known and, as mortals, we are never in that position. We are subconsciously lazy…..we should remove “in my judgement from our speech in favor of “in my opinion” or “that is my belief”. And, by the way, the ego works to persuade us that we are omniscient……….:)
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26-10-2021, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Molearner
Sky123,
Judgement in the biblical sense is passing judgement on others…..that is why we are warned to not judge others.
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Exactly and imo Jesus judged others, (their behaviour ).
Regarding that we are warned not to judge others..... I most definitely will judge other's (behaviour) if it helps someone else from being hurt or injured
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26-10-2021, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn
Any way you could put the Post # and thread if it is so good?
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It's in one of these threads I think. I was reading them for hours last night. I was jumping all over the place though as some people posted links to other threads and I just clicked on the links so was jumping from old thread to old thread!
https://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/s...d.php?t=137175
https://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/s...d.php?t=137442
Can one link to a specific post? I don't know how to do that. I just know how to link to a thread page.
Getting that link just now I found this: post #2 here: https://www.spiritualforums.com/vb/s...d.php?t=137175
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Originally Posted by sky123
Ego is a mental construct we use to describe the set of beliefs we hold about our selves, or who we perceive ourselves to be, it isn't real it doesn't exist...
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Good stuff!
It's like a child that thinks a monster is living in their closet. That monster is not real, that monster does not exist. But the mental construct of it produces effects, experiences, actions. Like the child hears a random noise one night, maybe a cat outside, and so the child screams and runs into the parents room terrified. Maybe the child piled toys against the closet door before they went to bed to keep the monster in there while they slept.
The not real, what doesn't exist, creates experience. False mental constructs produce effects. Krishnamurti mentions one such false mental construct sometimes, "psychological time" which one could also call "becoming mind" as opposed to "being mind" or the actual and not imagined.
"as thought has built in the psyche, in ourselves; that is, 'what is' and 'what should be', a movement from here to there. Is there psychological time at all, or, it is actually an invention of thought?" Krishnamurti
https://jkrishnamurti.org/content/ps...ention-thought
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26-10-2021, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by sky123
Exactly and imo Jesus judged others, (their behaviour ).
Regarding that we are warned not to judge others..... I most definitely will judge other's (behaviour) if it helps someone else from being hurt or injured
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I prefer the middle path...............
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27-10-2021, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by BigJohn
I prefer the middle path...............
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Didn't Buddha quote about "the middle path" after leaving aestheticism? Regarding abusing the body?
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28-10-2021, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by AbodhiSky
Can one link to a specific post?
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1) click on post number
2) copy-paste link
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