CONDEMNATION & EMOTIONAL SAP
Even when we condemn something or someone, we are nevertheless still acknowledging (whether we are aware of it or not) that thing that we condemn. We identify something, have a reaction to it and then choose to accept it or condemn it. When we accept the thing as it is, the truth of the thing passes thru us unhindered and it doesn’t bother us. But when we condemn the thing, it stays stuck in us, hinders us even as we hinder it, and bothers us for all time until we choose to let it pass thru us, to let it go.
This revelation arrived one day while thinking about how in the recent past, society would look at a man who demonstrated even a slight emotional side to his personality and call him a ‘sap’. In the study of plant alchemy, the soul of a plant is equivalent to the essential oils contained within the plant. But in the case of trees (bigger plants) the soul of the tree is its sap.
It dawned on me that when someone condemned an emotional man for being a ‘sap’, the condemner himself was oblivious to the fact that he was actually recognizing (unconsciously) the truth of the existence of the human emotional nature, but simultaneously failed to recognize that such condemnation didn’t erase what so bothered or offended him, but rather encouraged existence of the agitation within the condemner even more. With an attitude like this, the condemner will never have a moment’s peace of mind until he gives in and consciously acknowledges and accepts as a part of himself the thing that so disturbed him in the first place.
So if you will, go ahead and condemn someone, anyone from your nearest neighbor to a distant political leader. All this does is keep them on your mind forever disturbing you until you let go of the condemnation. So go ahead and call someone a ‘sap’. All you are doing is negatively acknowledging that they have a soul, an emotional side. Then ask yourself why this bothers you so much. Could it be that you are also emotional, but are keeping that quality deeply under control? Maybe this internal restriction is the reason that the outward manifestation is so upsetting?
Every time you condemn, you have failed to realize that your soul is just asking you to loosen your own restriction on yourself, and you refuse to do so, causing you to become upset when you experience the outward manifestation of your own inner restriction.
Condemnation does no one any good, least of all the accuser.
