I was thinking about how hard it is not to judge….anything!

Our brains are wired to judge. Is it safe? Is it good? Do I like them?

Even as I enjoy a relaxing walk in the countryside trying not to think of anything, I notice the weeds, the dead or dying trees, I think of that mean thing someone just said to me and I notice a judgement arise in my thoughts. How can I stop all this judging? I want to be free to just enjoy life as it is and watch it unfold without the constant commentary and labelling of good, bad or ugly.

I was reminded that we are all new expressions of an ancient intelligent universe. We are a paradox, as is everything.

Our bodies are made up of ancient minerals and genetic materials, a product of millions of years of evolution, yet they are also new, as we are each created in a unique configuration, just as no two fingerprints are the same.

We have one body, yet countless cells and microorganisms live within it. How can we be both one and innumerable? Both old and young, new and ancient? We are both a thing and a process. Forever becoming, just as the seasons become. Not still or stagnant. Try not to change, it is impossible. We may rejoice with the new life in the spring garden, but this is only made possible by the decaying materials of autumn.

We may have our one identity, but it is continuously changing and undefinable and different from each person’s perspective and current state of mind. A paradox.

We are both solid and permeable. From the outside we appear solid, but zoom in to an atomic level and we are anything but solid. Are we our breath? The water in our bodies? The minerals? Maybe the persona or our brain? We are all these, yet these are all in constant flux and cannot be contained within a singular concept.

So how can we judge anything that is a paradox and constantly changing? We may not like someone’s actions, or attitudes and to us they may seem mean, cruel or selfish, but what is it like from their perspective? And sometimes the mean word is just what I need to hear to allow me to move on to what my soul is desperately wanting.

How can it be both good and bad? I wonder if such concepts as good and bad even exist or are they just our creation to try to explain the unexplainable paradox we find ourselves in as a human “being”.