Zenbob/judging others.

[Guest guest]

>Zenbob:

>There are many wonderful reasons to

>eat a lean healthy diet, to abstain from cruelty to animals and people, but

>there is also a great responsibility to avoid judgment and criticism from

>the deeply in error perspective of being "superior" or more advanced

>than others.

 

Dan:

Yes, thank you. These words echo the teachings of Jesus and the Buddha.

Minimimizing compassion when interacting is minimizing Truth.

 

Am I interested in testifying to Truth or in putting someone down? I can

tell by looking at my choice of words and the tone of my speech. If my

speech is presenting my opinion as Truth, it glorifies the "me" that is

speaking, not the Truth. I am letting myself be caught in the dualistic

game of "my mind" against "your mind,may the best mind win this war of

words". Truth is not a personal possession, nor is it an opinion about

something, nor is it the outcome of a war of words, nor does It exist in a

field of embattled "minds".

 

Truth is always only its own subject and object -

how could It ever stoop to trying to make "another" feel foolish, or to

presenting an opinion as ultimate reality? I am of Truth only when I see

no "other" besides Truth. "Thou shall have no other gods before Me". One

of these "other gods" is "my own opinion as Truth".

-- Shalom --

[Guest guest]

"Dan Berkow, PhD" wrote:

> Am I interested in testifying to Truth or in putting someone down?

 

And did not Jesus extend compassion to the hookers, 'sinners', and unsavory?

Not sure where omnivores fit into all this,

but I suspect there's a place for them as well.

 

"Let the might of your compassion arise to bring a quick end

to the flowing stream of the blood and tears" - quote from Steve Vai's latest

CD.

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 12/13/99 2:57:07 PM Pacific Standard Time,

berkowd writes:

 

<< Truth is always only its own subject and object -

how could It ever stoop to trying to make "another" feel foolish, or to

presenting an opinion as ultimate reality? I am of Truth only when I see

no "other" besides Truth. "Thou shall have no other gods before Me". One

of these "other gods" is "my own opinion as Truth".

-- Shalom -- >>

 

Dear Dan:

 

Wisdom indeed and well worth placing on my mirror, too, for those exuberant

moments when I think I have risen above "mere opinion" and have found the

promised land.

 

Thanks for the good sense and even better guidelines of good "idea sharing."

 

Blessings

Love,

 

Zenbob