Judgment

Classroom Talk: 1/15/2023 - Negative reactions have no awareness of themselves at all, which means not only are they blind, but neither have they any awareness of how they are complicit in the continuation of the pain inherent in the condition they protest.

Classroom Talk: 9/4/2022 - The harsh, or otherwise cruel judgment of ourselves feels like it's part of what's necessary to perfect ourselves... when, in truth, it's actually a mechanical movement of an unconscious mind punishing itself for not being as it's imagined it's supposed to be.

Classroom Talk: 1/15/2020 - We cannot run away from what we don’t want to see in ourselves, any more than a mirror can escape whatever is reflected in it. And yet, to SEE the truth of this fact (about our present level of consciousness) is the action of transcending it, along with its pain.

Classroom Talk: 11/13/2019 All unconscious reactions are useless except to serve the mechanical man who believes the involuntary sensations produced by his own familiar clanging and clanking... somehow prove he is alive, thriving, and most important of all... real.

Classroom Talk: 5/15/2019 The harsh, or otherwise cruel judgment of yourself feels like it's part of what's necessary to perfect yourself when, in truth, it's actually the mechanical action of an unconscious mind punishing itself for not being as it's imagined it ought to be.

Only what is imperfect in us wants to punish (the) imperfections that it sees in someone else.