“discernment”
Noun - the ability to judge well.
Synonyms – discrimination – perspicacity – acumen – judgementCould you help solve my confusion by giving your definitions of “discernment” and “judgement” please, Paul?
LOL! Good call. 😀
If they were truly identical in meaning then we wouldn't bother having two words.
I take discernment as being the dualistic ability to place one thing as seperate from another, such as identifying an apple from an orange (being able to put labels to things).
On the other hand judgement typically (and I say typically not always) is the word used when discernment is influenced by the mind, so that duality is created between things, in a way that creates conflict i.e. at the expense of one thing over another, and typically is not a truthful discernment (hence why discernment is the ability to judge "well", where as judgement is not necessarily judging things well).
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“Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.”
? [url]Eckhart Tolle[/url]
Set you free from what?
Hi Crowan
You are aware, aren't you, that this is your definition? General usage of "judgement" can be, "Yes, I judge that to be a car."
So, if you are using your own definitions, how can you know (and in place of "know", most people would accept "judge", or even "guess") how someone else is using the word?
As far as I was aware I did not judge how others would use the word, I simply pointed out the difference between discerning something and judging it, but we do appear to live in a judgemental world with all of the unrest and suffering that it creates, so it is really not surprising that the word has been utilised to form a judgement rather than its older meaning of being able to perceive that what is hidden or obscured which is the way that I perceive the word, much the same as intuition and knowing. 🙂
Wow - what can I say? You missed that it was about integrity? About behaving according to our beliefs? About doing what was right? Nothing "happy", "pretty" or flimsy about that and so NOT about what makes you feel better....an icecream might make you feel better. It takes guts, commitment to stand by your beliefs, i.e. not necessarily easy. Making a difference. Sorry all that was missed on you. Guess it's hard to see what's there sometimes - all depends on our perceptive filters. Ah well.
Giles (like myself) is a reiki practitioner so tries to live by the reiki principles - which I can assure you are ALL about integrity.
Behaving according to our beliefs is what we all day. EVERY action we take is filtered through our self image. We will never act outside that. But just because we believe something doesn't make it true. I spend time helping people to see that their self image (smoker, failure, fat, bad at exams etc) can be wrong - and help them to change it - and with it their beliefs.....
'Right' and 'wrong' are also not fixed concepts.....no-one goes to ward for something they believe is wrong............
Tashanie - there is no need for you to explain or defend being a reiki practitioner. I was never addressing this issue at all (or questioning Giles integrity) - just the reaction to the video clip I posted here.
As to right and wrong - again you have misunderstood. The video clip is about providing guidelines for those interested in walking the talk; simply bringing awareness to the moral concepts we already have and asking whether we integrate them in our behaviour. You've heard of the term "lip service"? Enough said!