Hello White Tiger ... yes we can form judgments following our own beliefs and observations ... judgement in this case is subjective ... to see things from a different point of view and feel what another person feels is possible if we have great empathy or have lived what that other person has lived.

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Hi White Tiger, I liked the story and for me it portrays that there is no such thing as uselessness. Things and people might at times look useless or be considered useless by those that judge but every man, tree and thing has a purpose in this life that makes them usefull. Only the inteligent will see this and those that judge have not found their true usefullness yet.

I have a good story about judging people:

There were two old women who lived next door to each other. The one was sweet. She let the children play in her yard. She gave them cookies. She smiled and talked to all her neighbors, and always had a good word about everyone.

The other old women was mean and cranky. She yelled at the children if they even touched her grass. She never said "Hello" to anyone. She was alwyas grumpy and touchy and everyone thought she was difficult to bear.

One day, A neighbor to the two oled women was dreaming that he was in Heaven. He asked God, "Why are those two old women so different? Why can't that nasty old lady be nice?"

God replied, "The nice old lady was supposed to be a Saint. I gave her a strong spirit and a great love, but she is just nice. The other old lady? Well, I gave her a difficult spirit. She has learned to cope; she has never killed; she has never committed as crime, because she prays without ceasing to be a better person." The dreamer woke up, and pondered this new idea. He realized that things just are never quite what they seem...

Judging people is so WRONG! One just never knows what struggles and burdens thay have to bear.

I hope this story helps. I agree with you, White Tiger.

Judging is wrong.

Blessings, and Peace,

Jai

For me, the meaning runs deeper than just that.

If a human is 'useless' but tries to find a purpose, they will try something new. They may fail, and they may even hurt themselves in the process, but they will have learned something from it, and they will heal.

I feel like this proverb means more than just "maybe somebody is being sneaky about their purpose." To me it also means that just because something may not have found its use yet does not mean it doesn't have one. And as the use becomes more elusive, the more likely its use is more important.

This makes me think of rags to riches stories like Aladdin or the Prince of Persia. 'Street rats' who people believed were useless, but upon closer examination were actually just holding a far more crucial destiny. A 'diamond in the rough', or a prince waiting to be discovered. =)

Just another point of view to consider.

in the first fable, the master's judgement relys on usefulness,
at a rather narrow self-centered cultural perspective of material gain,
yet in the dream an intuitive wisdom about the tree is released,
i would prefer to learn why/how it is so

King David was carved out of the crappiest piece of marble found. No one wanted that marble, it was good for nothing! Ahh but Michelangelo said, "NO, I don't care I will used this lousy marble if I have to and see what I can make out it." He made the statue of King David, a work of art that stands to this day as something that must be seen.

Pennsylvania is called the Keystone state. Here is the story of the Keystone.

The masons were building the Temple of Solomon and had come upon a rock that was lousy it wasn't good for anything! Can't put it in the corner, can't put it in the wall it just would not fit anyplace. The masons were upset that this stone was a waste. They were building the roof of an arch that held the whole building together. They were upset that no stone would fit! Every stone they tried was a lousy fit and would not work! Finely someone said, "try the reject stone!" They said, "That will never work, we cast that stone aside as good for nothing a long while back!" Finely out of desperation they grabbed the rejected stone and low and behold it fit perfect! It was the Keystone! The stone that held all other normal stones in place!

What do you think about judgement?

Once you start to realize the idea and the reality of unconditional love within your own being, all forms of judgment begin to fall away. And thereafter when judgment arises within you, in that moment, if you remember to do so, you automatically forgive yourself. I often laugh at myself in a loving way when
this happens :)

To say and judge that anything is good or bad or right or wrong as an absolute, is still a judgment on your part. To believe in the idea of judgment means to assume there is an ultimate judge. However, when you look into the idea of the One consciousness and you discover that you are it and it is you; then you realize that, by the same token, you are the only judge because there is nothing outside of the One consciousness.

It is wise to remember that anyone who does anything does it for their own reasons based on the understanding of their current perspective. Therefore, whatever they do they do it to the best of their ability at that time. They could not do it another way, because they do not know another way and therefore they are not wrong in any way. In really seeing this, you always choose to automatically forgive them (and yourself) for whatever seeming wrong has been committed.

And seeing this on an even deeper level, someone who does not know a better way cannot possibly be wrong in any way, thus forgiveness is never even necessary because, ultimately, there is no right or wrong; there just is What Is. From the perspective of automatic forgiveness we move into the idea of absence of forgiveness because we've realized that even forgiveness is unnecessary, and now we're left with compassion.

So you look at, meet and interact with those around you who are doing things that you believe or know are not really serving them and unless asked, you do not interfere with them; in the form of you shouldn't do that or you must do this or why do that, it is better to do this etcetera. In other words you let them be as they are being.

Always remembering that it is their life and you don't know what it is that they came here to learn or remember. In fact, from this limited perspective we cannot see the big picture, so what we might perceive as wrong or un-serving in the short-term, might be serving them extremely well just a little way down the road: we don't know.

When we live from the perspective of unconditional love and compassion, we no longer interfere with others and our life becomes far easier and much more enjoyable, because we leave all others out of the equation and get on with our own life. By doing this we offer a totally different vibration and ironically, others find us and begin to ask: what did you do to get to that state and how can I get there also?

And then, if you feel that way inclined, you might offer suggestions and pointers to help them on their way. Or you might choose to remain quiet and just be who you are being; either way, through vibrational resonance you affect and uplift them due to your vibrational state of being.