“Self-judgment is an obstacle that all meditators must face at some point in their practice. Even after years of meditation, the inner critic can come out in full force and threaten to consume our attention—especially on retreat, when all our mental patterns become magnified.
When this happens, Insight Meditation Society co-founder and guiding teacher Joseph Goldstein will often advise his students to spend a full day counting their self-judgments: Self-judgment one, self-judgment two, self-judgment 569…
“When you get up to some ridiculous number,” he says, “the mind starts smiling...”
If you also laugh at the end of the day, here is our opinion. You just become your true self, exonerated from all mindlessness posed by negative energies and ego that they and the lame implementations of the society feed. Your true self is sure your divine self and it always ignores your mindless ideas as they have nothing to do with divine wisdom.
If you have not already done, maybe you will learn how to look within to meet your divine self. When you ask it
about your self doubts that seem ungrounded, don’t be surprised to hear a phrase like “Get out!”
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