Immediate Remedies to Judgmental Thoughts
Upvote:1
Are there alternatives to analyzing/questioning the judgment?
If you look at it as one of many possible interpretations you avoid the risk of invalidating your point of view.
What can be done in the moment where judgmental thoughts arise to remain open?
One possible reason why we need to judge others is because it creates a feeling of righting a wrong, in a sense. Without knowing too much about you, i am assuming that there is some form of painful feeling that creates a clinging to judgment (ditthupadana).
Therefore, one way to aid letting go of judgment is to examine any painful emotions (dukkha) you might have had prior to these thoughts, and try to accept the emotions as they are.
Further, try to look behind other people's actions, to see if there are motives for acting the way they do. What is their dukkha, their tanha or upadana? This can be very hard, but can also yield compassion that ameliorates our clinging to judge others.
Upvote:1
What can be done in the moment where judgmental thoughts arise to remain open?
Treat the mind as something from a distance. Tell yourself for example: "The mind tells me" or alternatively, "Anger is arising in me".
If possible, observe any bodily phenomena with a curious attitude. Don't push it away. It's not easy.
If the anger is directed towards others you can reflect how you behaved maybe in a similar way or had similar thoughts.
Otherwise distract yourself for a while.
But whatever you do, it will take some time until the mind changes its state, and from my personal experience, emotions strongly bias subsequent thinking, that's why I recommend to notice anger signals early on to nip them in the bud, but again with an open, allowing & curious attitude.
Upvote:1
What is thought? You aware your thoughts Trace your thoughts till it's root
Beacuse my observation say that thought is illusion Beacuse thought is memory Memory is thought .
Proof What is nirvana (buddhism) You are thinking not reach this question Because you don't experience. You don't experience. You don't thinking. So your are experience is thought
Upvote:2
I have this problem myself but it is getting better. The first thing I do is to spot the first movement of the mind toward judgment and I send the person metta (May you be well, happy and free from suffering). This then changes my attitude to a more accepting and more opened mind. One other thing which I find helpful is to remember their faults are mine, I have a potential to do what I disapprove and judge. This brings me back to earth and to a forgiving attitude.
More post
- 📝 Can you explain the "Maha Meru"?
- 📝 Planning Meditation Topics
- 📝 Attachment and Aversion Continuum
- 📝 What will the Satipatthana Sutta teach me?
- 📝 Can Buddhism be viewed as a threat to the capitalist way of life?
- 📝 Is it OK for a Buddhist teacher to charge their students an hourly rate for their time?
- 📝 What are Buddhist arguments against Vedic validity because of its authorlessness?
- 📝 What is the relationship between dana and tax?
- 📝 Most frequent realms for post-human rebirth
- 📝 Is Theravada Buddhism the only modern representative of Hinayana Buddhism?
- 📝 What is the origin of the Buddhist expression "Practice as if your hair is on fire"?
- 📝 Is Will Power required to renounce sense pleasures?
- 📝 List of book recommendations
- 📝 Meditation Into A Dream State
- 📝 Why can't private buddhas just tell people what they did to achieve enlightenment
- 📝 Will aiming for emptiness instead of awareness of breath help attaining meditative absorption states?
- 📝 metta, anxiety, and anger
- 📝 What interaction did the Buddha have with his family after leaving?
- 📝 What is the Buddhist text quoted by the Hindu philosopher Yogaraja?
- 📝 Can Buddhist accept prayers from other religions?
- 📝 If a snake is eating a human infant in front of me what should I do?
- 📝 If everyting comes from emptyness than what is energy
- 📝 Why is there something instead of nothing?
- 📝 What did the Buddha say about sharing merit?
- 📝 What is world (loka) in SN 12.44? Why is it called "world"?
- 📝 Is there a difference between sunatta and anatta
- 📝 Form in the formless realms
- 📝 Where can I find a Buddist Monastery that practice hard training?
- 📝 Methods for reaching Jhana
- 📝 What is worth desiring from the world?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Immediate Remedies to Judgmental Thoughts
- 📝 How can I know that I am clear of thoughts while I am meditating?
- 📝 Overwhelming thoughts - Mindfulness and awareness
- 📝 My thoughts don't happen to other people so why are they 'not mine'?
- 📝 Controlling one's sexual thoughts
- 📝 Where do thoughts arise?
- 📝 Meditation through clearing the mind of all thoughts
- 📝 Do thoughts create karma?
- 📝 Mental note of thoughts during the day
- 📝 Is there a way to "reset" all karmic conditions with immediate effect?
- 📝 Thoughts in Daily Life
- 📝 Buddhist meditation for intrusive thoughts and anxiety
- 📝 Can thoughts materialize?
- 📝 Unwholesome thoughts at the time of death
- 📝 Can someone be literally reborn in lower realms due to unskillful thoughts and emotions?
- 📝 Do thoughts 'create' vedana?
- 📝 Can a person with harmful thoughts still meditate?
- 📝 What are the toughest thoughts to 'catch'?
- 📝 Do thoughts influence everything? Or is this an illusion?
- 📝 Reference for Thoughts like rain drop bubbles
- 📝 Ignoring thoughts vs. understanding them
- 📝 Intentional or unintentional sexual thoughts
- 📝 thoughts in heart
- 📝 How to make my thoughts non influencial on my happiness and presence?
- 📝 How do your thoughts appear to you? (asking for mechanics)
- 📝 Sexual thoughts coming with full pace to silent mind
- 📝 What is a "thought?" (Particularly in reference to thoughts that arise during meditation)
- 📝 Watching a stream of thoughts from the mind?
- 📝 Categorizing common thoughts patterns and believes
- 📝 I am seeking advice for blasphemous intrusive thoughts