Gentleness - why not?

Why not be a little more gentle with myself. Particularly with the mind.
When we now we are in the healing phase, why watch or partake in violent conversations? - Arnab, the Noise hour, investigating into the cause of Robin Williams death, Watching stutters Island...quite clearly it is wise to eep such things - much of which do not add any value any way, for another day.

Judgement

Judgement is the eagerness to make an assessment of value of a certain thing, person, action etc. We ignore the fact that what is important is that the assessment be right than quick.  And in order to make a right assessment we need to consider a range of aspects. But we don't. We just go and judge. This is tendency to judge becomes default and compulsive. Its as if the first thing we must do when we witness an incident, happening, event, person etc. This is highly foolish.

Marriage and Death

A young man I know was afflicted with a near fatal illness. The world turned upside down for his dear and near ones. Every one is praying. Its been about a year. I'm grateful to note he is recovering. This too is a miracle. Going by our culture one of the default points of intense worry for parents as they contemplated his future was "how will he get married". And this is no tiny worry for them. It seems - thinking from the parents point of view - a perfectly reasonable cause of worry. And how much pain it causes. And yet at the same time I, standing here, can only laugh at this worry. I see it as an almost foolish thing to worry about. I'm sure there are several people who understand.

As I deal with the myriad thoughts that cause fear, learning from the wise I think about how just because the mind may believe there is a cause of concern, this doesn't have to be true. In fact in most cases the wise would laugh at the cause that we are justified as reasons of concern.