Is judging a sign of ego?

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Yes, but judgment of others is in reality well-masked judgment of yourself. Whenever you judge someone, what’s really going on is “I’m not like that, I’m better”. So you don’t allow yourself to be “like that” even if you want to. Why? Always start with yourself.

Judgment always comes from suppressed desires and suppressed emotion. Notice that if it’s more like “I can be like that, it’s no problem, I just don’t want to right now”, then there cannot be any judgment of others either. You don’t want to be “like that”, but he does. So what? It just becomes a matter of preference. It doesn’t mean you have to like to be around this person, but there’s no judgment - by freeing yourself you allow them their freedom.

That is the true meaning of Jesus’ “judge lest ye be judged”. People think it means “don’t judge others, and others won’t judge you”. No. Others will always judge you. It means these things are the same, they are equivalent. If you can judge others, you can judge yourself. If you can judge yourself, you can judge others. When one goes away, another necessarily goes away, too. What he really meant was “don’t judge others and you’ll stop judging yourself”. Or the other way around - that works, too.