Prejudice – – Asa Rodriguez

One recognizes another when there is quiet observance, a stillness of the mind without prejudice and without looking with the eyes of the past. And sometimes it happens that we judge a person based on a group, or based on gossip, or based on anger and frustration we carry from our own life.

Someone did this in the past, so I do not like this person now. This group is known for this, so I despise this particular person belonging to this same group. I hate all men, or women, because in my life men, or women, make my life miserable.

Learn to see this prejudice in yourself, which many times might be subconscious and built into your mindset due to your own conditioning. Practice opening your mind, judging by facts in the present; and so seeing people for who they really are.

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“When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you. We have much to learn from a simple dog.” ~ Eckhart Tolle; German-Canadian spiritual teacher, public speaker, and author.

“I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind, it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally.” ~ Gordon Brown; British politician.

Life allows us to make different paths, and that exactly shapes people, and by the choices we make under any circumstance we are forging our journey along this path; this is something unique which is the heart of our level of living and understanding.

And nobody is better than anybody due to having different experiences; we are all different, perhaps with a lower or higher thinking depth, perhaps we have taken our time to meditate on ourselves or not, but we are all here to learn from our unique and challenging experiences.

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Sometimes people make the mistake of seeing a rich person, a bully, an angry person, a hateful person, etc., and think that they have it easy or that they are evil because of their words or because of the violence they commit. But, the truth that your untainted heart knows, and that your ego may quarrel with, is that we have all gone through experiences and lifestyles that have shaped us as the human beings we presently are, and many times the choices we have made out of ignorance were not the best ones.

But whether you understand this and tolerate it or not is a reflection of you, not of the people you judge.

This speaks of your own knowledge of self and of the control you have of your mind, such must be always a peaceful and harmonious mind in order to see through all prejudice and anger from the rebellious ego.

You must accept people the way they are, even if we are talking about Hitler himself; because nobody is born evil, but the choices and the experiences growing up make good or evil. Learn to be the sage, the wise one who can see through this veil of prejudice.