Beloved ones, in this world, in this life, there are pleasant experiences and there are unpleasant experiences. When one feels the beautiful carpeting below one’s feet, and one is in a sense of pleasure— happiness, one is well fed, one has the beverage nearby, one has good company, beautiful sounds are coming, everything is wonderful. Everything is wonderful! One prefers this state to a state of being dipped into an icy cold stream without any food or beverage or any friend at all, and in a hopeless state of agony. Of course! Who would choose the second over the first?
But preference leads then, instantly to judgment, because the mind snaps up preference just as it would snap up a cookie, and says, “Here’s an opportunity to make a judgment. Here’s a preference. Now we’ll say that that which is preferred is good, and that which is not preferred is bad.”
And once one’s mind begins to say “good” and “bad.” “This is good and that is bad.” Judgments pile one upon another, just as snowflakes pile up upon the ground and become so deep in the middle of the winter.
In every life, the judgments pile up, higher and higher, until all one has in front of one’s eyes is judgment. There is nothing else to see, except this blinding judgment. That “This thing is good and this thing is bad,” “That is good and that is bad,” “That is good and that is bad,” “This is all good, and that is all bad.”
All these judgments become one’s entire way of relating to this beautiful world. And we’ll tell you this, dear ones: You are not meant to be in a world where you are not happy. And we’ll tell you this as well, beloved ones: Judgments will never make you happy.