Judge Not

    

"Judge not lest ye be judged." ~Mat 7:1

What we put our attention on grows in our life: first in our mind, then in our energy field, then in the world around us. This is how we manifest our "reality." We feed the leaves and petals as surely as the sun. And it's also how many of us unwittingly nurture precisely what we do not want.

To worry is to feed and manifest our fear. To blame is to feed and empower the one's we call our "enemies." Yet none of us actually needs to cling to our negative judgments and feelings. Though this may sound like a colossal revelation, the world can survive without our opinions. We cling to them only because they make us feel "right" - even when our righteousness destroys the world.

Yet we can drop our mental monologue of perpetual blame, because it is not who we really are. It is only mind, not awareness. We can breathe out judgment, relinquish the feel of being "right," and sink down into the heart.

Did you know that you can breathe through your hridaya, your heart center? Breathe in love. Since love is the essence of Being, love already surrounds us as the golden cloud of the Spirit, who waits on us, offering to flow into our body. She is the Goddess who becomes this very inhalation. Her greening power winds up the tree of life, the spine, blossoming in our throat to bless the world with forgiveness, in our forehead to see the world with compassion, in our crown to burst and shower the planet with beauty.

Why waste a single moment blaming, judging, arguing how "right" we are, when we can pour forth love, the subtlest energy in the cosmos, and co-create a New Earth with our rainbow tribe of star-crazy lovers?

Painting: 'Eden' by Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1615