280. Those who Jump to Conclusions often make a Hard Landing…..

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Human mind is habituated to perceive. Perception happens only when the mind gets in contact with the five sense organs that are facing the world outside. Thought it is the ears, eyes, nose, tongue and skin which hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and feeling respectively without mind they cannot be experienced by an individual. The mind not only perceives but also makes judgment hence for many of us perception and judgment goes hand in hand.

The judgmental attitude often makes the individual jump into conclusions. This judgmental attitude could be due to inborn traits, parenting and past experiences. If one is aware of how the Mind relates to whatever it gets into contact with one can control the judgment process. When this judgmental attitude is put on check one can avoid jumping into conclusions.

Judgmental attitude is important to access the situation but it has to have its limitations. One cannot always judge things and people, if done so we will be missing the hidden splendor. This leads to Viparyaya (misjudgment) where the mind creates its own world that is different from the reality. Thus we are often prone to pass judgment rather hastily due to our strong belief on our impeccable judgment. We are unaware of that fact that what we are looking is one dimension of many more we do not know. While we look at anything we need to appreciate its worth and stop making judgment as we do not know why it is there for. A rose plant has thorns it is to protect the plant, our admiration has to be for the beauty of the flower and we do not have the liberty of discussing the presence of the thorns. The judgmental attitude obscures the full reality hence sometime we end up judging people on their face value. A casual judgment is likely to prove wrong even for an expert face reader as he may fail if the person is good at concealing his emotions. Judgmental attitude is assessing others with our own yardstick of values.

Sometime it will be as the English Idiom “The pot calling the kettle black”. 

“Oh! Said the pot to the kettle;
“You are dirty ugly and black!
Sure no one would think you were metal,
Except when you're given a crack.”

“Not so! Not so!” said the kettle to the pot;
This is your own dirty image you see;
For I am so clean without blemish or a blot
That your blackness mirrored on me.” …….poem from English Grammar to justify the idiom.

Nidhidhyasana (contemplation) is the antidote to Viparyaya, the misjudgment. Contemplation works in two stages: first it rejects the false notion and then confirms the reality. With an open mind to accept without limiting ourselves to judgment we can enrich our relationships and our own life. In the place of judgment if right understanding is substituted it does help us not to jump into conclusion in haste. Jumping to conclusions often makes us skip over the Truth and give us a hard landing……….What say?????