Judgment or compassion?

[Geoff-Allen]

Greetings everyone.

I found this article that asks who we should listen to - can we ever learn valuable lessons from an addict/alcoholic ... ???

Here is a part -

I found myself reflecting back on the twelve step meetings I was required to sit in on as part of my medical training. Attending these meetings with active and recovering addicts touched me deeply. Before experiencing an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting as a young student, I had been taught by my parents and my church to judge addicts – at least that was my interpretation as a child. I thought addicts simply lacked willpower. I deemed them to be lazy, sloppy, even immoral. Addicts were people we should steer clear of and judge harshly. They weren’t as “good” as people who were able to stay sober. They were somehow lesser humans, and certainly, you couldn’t learn any spiritual lessons from a drunk or a drug addict.

Read the full article -

Will You Practice Judgment Or Compassion? | Wake Up World

All the best!

 

[Sunstone]

Judgement clouds understanding. That is not what we're taught as children in school. In fact, we're taught quite the opposite -- to make sound judgements is assumed to show superior understanding. But that is not correct, as Spinoza and many other thinkers knew quite well.

 

[stvdv]

I found this article that asks who we should listen to - can we ever learn valuable lessons from an addict/alcoholic ... ???

Without reading it, I know I can learn valuable lessons from an addict

I found myself reflecting back on the twelve step meetings I was required to sit in on as part of my medical training. Attending these meetings with active and recovering addicts touched me deeply. Before experiencing an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting as a young student, I had been taught by my parents and my church to judge addicts – at least that was my interpretation as a child. I thought addicts simply lacked willpower. I deemed them to be lazy, sloppy, even immoral. Addicts were people we should steer clear of and judge harshly. They weren’t as “good” as people who were able to stay sober. They were somehow lesser humans, and certainly, you couldn’t learn any spiritual lessons from a drunk or a drug addict.

Oops. Must have been some eyeopener, when this man discovered the first of his addictions in the long row to follow