Being critical without criticising.
Evolving means noting, discriminating and evaluating all that appears. One lets be one’s usual reactions to that, then something fresh maybe seen.
Only accepting and rejecting because of our biased habitual opinions, leads us into deeper mind traps. We only achieve a more ingrained attitude, and therefore become more aggressive and have less freedom. We have to be critical of our criticising to be even more discerning!
I find it useful to have an invisible peg board up in front of me, where ‘all’ information is hung, and pended. As more information comes in, the pegs either join up or go nowhere.
There are two aspects to everything, in this world and our relationship to it. Quite often we criticise the world but don’t notice that we are part of the problem. It’s like being in a traffic jam and complaining about it! Even though we are part of the problem we still have to evaluate …constantly evaluate!
We know that all sorts of consciousness control (mind control) is going on in the world: we are constantly being distracted into looking in the ‘other’ direction. We also do this to ourselves daily, distracting our consciousness with entertaining speculations.
We are all different on a relative level, and all we can do is agree to see things differently, and get on with our own evolution. That is the only way to work together and keep our sanity…unity in diversity.
When we are aware of our own frailties, then we can empathise with others, and communicate.
The more critical – without criticising – we can be of our own reactions, the more we learn to evolve. The trick is to be critical and kind at the same time.
If we meet a spiritual guide (apart from killing them!), be careful of how we judge them. It is easy to looking for a stereotype of calmness and silence, but they are not all …what you might expect! Some are laid back, laugh a lot and seem to be hardly there, while others are very precise and critical of procedure and language…and can be a bit scary!
Everything and everyone is of value, viewed in the right way.
All the best,
Tony