In this School For A Course In Miracles (SFACIM) video conversation, we began by reading and discussing Lesson 277: Let me not bind Your Son with laws I made. (ACIM, W-277). This is a terse reminder that we can be limited and tyrannized only by our identification with the dualistic split (ego) mind and its projections (bodies and the entire material universe):
"Your Son is free, my Father. Let me not imagine I have bound him with the laws I made to rule the body. He is not subject to any laws I made by which I try to make the body more secure. He is not changed by what is changeable. He is not slave to any laws of time. He is as You created him, because he knows no law except the law of love. ..."
One of the primary mechanisms of this self-limiting and self-tyrannizing thought system is judgment. Ego insanity is kept alive in our dreams of duality by denying the intrinsic eternal sameness (and ultimately our Oneness) by making ephemeral, frivolous (from the perspective of our eternal nature) and condemning assessments of everyone and everything. This takes countless forms, and aligns with the ego's pillars of sin, guilt, fear, reflected in innumerable special hate and special love relationships.
This doesn't mean we stop making "common sense" judgments like stopping at traffic intersections when the light changes, or paying taxes, or brushing teeth, but rather noticing the debilitating ego practice of ceaselessly condemning others (and therefore ourselves) to a limited hopeless separate identity that is "uncertain, lonely, and in constant fear" (ACIM, T-31.VIII.7:1).
Eventually, as we notice more and more how exhausting this horrid and insidious ego default is, we will choose against it altogether. Meanwhile, our task is to simply look – without condemnation – at every (condemning) ego thought and forgive ourselves for resisting the peace that is possible if/when we drop the proverbial judge's gavel.
The only way we can do this without feeling deprived is to realize (usually gradually over many years) how awful we feel when we make judgments that seem to keep us apart from the real Love that is our essence and that of everyone else. True forgiveness and the relinquishment of separating, isolating judgment are are really synonymous.
We read the classic "The Chinese Farmer Story" which illustrates who clueless we are when we assume we understand anything from our tiny finite individual perspective:
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Maybe ... we're all clueless when relying on ego's infinitesimal perspective! I often think that when we have even a slightly revelatory experience, it's probably like an amoeba at the bottom of a dark, murky pond crawling along the underside of a leaf who suddenly has an "illumination" experience when it crawls around to the top of the leaf and suddenly sees the dim, heavily filtered light coming from above the pond and thinks it now comprehends the cosmos!
"... there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." - Hamlet, William Shakespeare
We then read and mused about How Is Judgment Relinquished? (ACIM, M-10). Here are the first three paragraphs of that section of the Manual for Teachers in ACIM:
" ... In order to judge anything rightly, one would have to be fully aware of an inconceivably wide range of things; past, present and to come. One would have to recognize in advance all the effects of his judgments on everyone and everything involved in them in any way. And one would have to be certain there is no distortion in his perception, so that his judgment would be wholly fair to everyone on whom it rests now and in the future. Who is in a position to do this? Who except in grandiose fantasies would claim this for himself?"
That last paragraph is a doozy! It is just one of countless ways the Course gently lampoons our investment, obsession and attachment to ego interpretations, ideals, and outcomes. Here's another favorite lampooning:
"The strain of constant judgment is virtually intolerable. It is curious that an ability so debilitating would be so deeply cherished." (ACIM, T-3.VI.5:6-7)
Holy Spirit's certainty is our birthright, but first we have to let go of our dogged, damning determination to be "right" about everything.
Another Course "cliche" is the "right or happy" question which is closely tied to denying we're clueless in a cosmic sense and we don't even notice much of what we identify with in our "own minds."
"Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if it is not there? Do you prefer that you be right or happy? Be you glad that you are told where happiness abides, and seek no longer elsewhere. You will fail. But it is given you to know the truth, and not to seek for it outside yourself." (ACIM, T-29.VII.1:6-12)
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