"Judge not lest ye be judged" Has a whole different meaning to me now than it did in the past.

It means that if you condemn a part of yourself, which others are, then through their condemnation you are also condemned.

If even a single part of your infinite being is in hell, you are in hell.

It is a non-dual teaching. But not the kind taught in the eastern philosophies;

"You are not your mind, not your body" - all exclusive. This all-exclusive approach creates a new subtle duality between "true and false", "right and wrong", two - not one. Jesus is rather all-inclusive, which is true non-duality. True non duality excludes nothing from the whole. Not even ego, greed, lust, desire. None of it can be judged and condemned to hell if you are to remain whole.

It is a teaching about why and how we should be compassionate, even towards sinners and those we normally condemn. The murderers. The rapists. The pedophiles. The capitalists. The liars. The billionaires. Trump - who may in fact be all of these at once.

It does not say "do not be discerning". It says "do not condemn a persons very being, their soul" because it is your own soul you condemn. If one is to take all this seriously, then it is possible to meet even the worst criminal among us with compassion.

Because you have recognised yourself in them. All of those traits you would condemn in them, are also in you. This is an uncomfortable truth, to many. They would rather die than face their own darkness, admit to it. They would go to the grave insisting on their own purity, their own light and deny the darkness again and again. Kind of like Peter denied Jesus, when knowing Jesus was dangerous to him. "I do not know him".

“Why do you call me good?” Jesus asked.

Jesus did not live a life without sin, because he did not have darkness within. He lived a life without sin because he knew that sin does not exist. This is the only way to live a life without sin. And it is quite easy to achieve. Simply throw away the concept of sin and stop condemning yourself and others. "Living without sin” does not require moral heroics. It requires abandoning condemnation as a mode of relating to self and other. If the eye is single, the whole body is full of light. Not because the body changed, but because the eye stopped dividing it.

God hates sin, it is said. And it may be true. But consider that it may be the concept "sin" he hates.

Possibly - while reading this post - you will read “throw away the concept of sin” as “anything goes.” But read carefully, what I have said above does not say that. I never deny harm. I deny ontological guilt. But funnily enough, even ontological guilt belongs. Not even that should be condemned. Its existence is the only means available to teach us why we should not condemn. One can not even condemn condemnation itself, or those who do it.

This post, if accepted, may be asking for a total reconfiguration of how you see the person next to you if you belong to the "I am pure, I am good" camp. Not the kind of post you usually find on Social Media. This is not a vibe check. It is a structural challenge to identity built on purity.