The Good Teacher

Who is a good teacher and what happens to all the good teachers out there?  Is the good teacher the person who gives you a good grade, the person that agrees with you?  Or is it a person that teaches you to be good no matter what, to think and to challenge the way we judge and treat others?  Is it a person that teaches you how to be successful or is it a person that teaches you how to make humanity a successful creation?

We all have our differences and to stay good despite all the bad around us takes a lot of effort, a lot of encouragement and examples of all the good teachers in our lives.  Inspired by others' courage to stay good and pure in their hearts we attempt to do the same, we follow the good example of others by our example, we lead our children to follow the example of the good teachers by following the example of kindness ourselves. 

The best advice I give to my children is: Follow by Example.  Stay true to the goodness and kindness of your heart and do not lose humanity - is the course that will have you feel the most satisfied in your life.  No matter what happens around us, if we are true to the purpose of kindness we can dwell in peace.  Peace is not determined by easy going, peace is determined by your best attempts to stay kind, by the ability to feel God in darkness.  Sometimes it is with a heavy heart and burning tears when we truly feel the presence of the divine power within us, an unbreakable immortal free soul. 

We have to lead our children to the future where forgiveness and kindness is the number one asset humanity carries though time and space, if there is one message we can leave to others it should be the one of kindness, redemption and forgiveness. 

When we take it upon ourselves to judge others we discard the idea of the higher power and it's ability to turn bad into good, and it's not necessarily because we don't believe in the higher power it's because we are not ready to understand the idea of ultimate forgiveness.  Our ego tells us that we are all knowing all powerful beings that can see true human nature through someone else's eyes and experiences.  Fast we forget all of our own shortcomings, because we have been reborn or rehabilitated, and here we are new and reborn ready to judge others as soon as the opportunity presents itself. 

What happens if we refuse to judge?  Then those "willing" - put the good teacher on the cross...

So what is the answer?  Follow by example and judge with forgiveness in mind. 

Judgement is not in core of human nature.  When we are little as children we don't differentiate good from bad, ugly from beautiful or poor from rich.  Those differences are taught to us by society and those around us.  We judge others based on the other people's perception of reality. 

The reality is: we describe ourselves as human, yet we are not even sure what that actually means.  The reality is: we breathe air and our hearts beat until the heart stops beating and we no longer breathe air.  We are all different, yet we try to fit ourselves into some artificial box of rules.  The reality is: we do not judge others until we are taught to judge. 

The good teachers teach us to not judge others, to forgive, to be kind, to treat others like we want to be treated, to understand the complex being that human is, to appreciate nature and all those around us and to love each other.  So many good teachers have suffered through ridicule and mistreatment promoting these simple messages.  Take a minute and think of the few and what happened throughout their lifetimes, what happened to them at the end...

Sometimes it seems that kindness cannot get a break.  Would that be a reason to give up on our true human nature to have a happy and peaceful heart?  Nobody fights for nothing.  If there is a fight there was a reason...  We may not know or understand the reason, the reason may be deeply seeded in generations of hatred and philosophies, but there is a higher power fully engaged into being there for us, waiting for the time we are ready to see and understand that nothing has been created to be judged, but to enjoy the process of being and evolving into the purposeful unknown. 

I recently heard a phrase: "Grudge is for the weak of spirit."  It is the grudge that we carry that forces us to go forward with desire to punish those who we perceive have done us wrong.  Holding the grudge towards a being is self-poisoning our souls with bitterness of hatred, caging our spirit with evil. 

What do we do when we catch ourselves being judgmental and hateful towards others?  Like with any addiction, addiction to hatred, war, judgement and being a victim - we need to recognize that we are not perfect beings.  We all make mistakes and failure in recovery from "behavioral hatred" is a natural order of things.  We can however one day at a time continue to teach ourselves to forgive, teach ourselves to be kind and continue evolving into better human beings we are meant to be. 

Less judgement means less suffering, less suffering means less hatred and less hatred means more peace. 

Promote more peace and less judgement.  Promote parental rights and Innocent Tears Act.  Promote keeping our families together!