(08-07-2013, 04:13 PM)plenum Wrote: I've had to overcome this tendency to see 'evil' people as not the creator.
If an animal did it, we call it 'natural'. Yet when a person does it, we say it's evil.
I don't really believe in 'evil', but I do believe in confusion and the ability to become completely lost.
And Zen is right in a way, although I don't think he is considering your actual use of judgement in the way we normally do. In another thread about judging others I mentioned that I have no choice but to judge in order to make a decision how best to react. But this is not the same as the judgement you describe where we feel a subtle or blatant hatred for them simply because they are lost.
I think we should understand that when we see the other as Creator, we are seeing them as 'created' in the way that they are. They simply choose one of two options for the most part to get to where they are now, which may just be completely lost. They may not have made the best choices in creating the personality, but they are a human just as we are. So all we are really doing is judging their choices, but applying it to their 'self'.