Ruminating with Rumi
Do not busy yourself with judgment. Judgment sucks you dry. It leaves you withered and windblown. You are tossed about like a dry leaf. Judging disrupts your life. Sure, life goes awry sometimes. Something may not sit well with you. Stuff happens that you feel should not be that way. So, you judge it as wrong. It should not be the way it is when you want it to be different. Compassion slips when you feel judgmental.
Turn your judgment inward. Look at yourself first. Clear yourself of wrongfulness. If you must accuse, then accuse yourself. Follow that with forgiveness. Life gets wobbly sometimes. When it does, do not let judgment blind you. Listen to your inner voice. Listen to twia. Abandon judgment. Find peace within. Look upon the world from joy. Joy has no judgment. Joy is your true nature. Peace of heart is joy’s companion. Listen within. Find your joy in twia.
Judgment confines you like a caged bird. Your wings remain folded without the freedom to fly. You wish to soar in the heavens but are stuck by judgment in a cage of your own making, unable to catch an updraft as the sun warms the morning air. Do not judge your condition. Die to the ways of the world. Loosen your attachments to body and soul. Sit mindfully in the still silence of the room within. The cage door will open. No longer confined by your miserable self, you can unfold your wings and soar into the whole of the all. It is your own judgment that keeps you caged. “Give it up and be released” is the advice of master Rumi.