Eureka! The Spirit of Non-Judgement

I've been wracked with guilt since posting the "Rants" section on my blog, "Warming up the car - hello?  You're polluting my air, people!  Do you need to borrow a coat, hat, gloves and ice scraper?"  I felt bad about putting it up there and then when I got home from my morning run yesterday, who's car was warming up outside my house, but Andrew's.  I said, "Come on, Andrew - don't warm up your car, put on a coat and hat and gloves and scrape the windshield.  You're polluting my good air!"  He rolled his eyes and grumbled and went inside to say goodbye to the girls.

They, later that same day, I sat down to nurse Cecilia and opened up "Teachings of Buddha" to a random page and read: "The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.  When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.  Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are set indefinitely apart.  If you wish to see the truth then hold no opinions for or against anything.  To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind."  It goes on like this for like 10 mini-pages.  Man - so when I see the guy warming up his 1960 Ford truck on my way to and from the river on my morning run, instead of thinking to myself, "355 Logan Ct., I'm totally calling that guy in.  Warming up your truck for 30 minutes is an outrage!"  I must simply shrug my  shoulders and think nothing of it and positive or negative.  I wonder if this sort of thing was as difficult in the days of Buddha and Jesus as it is now?  Were there so many frustrating aspects of life then?  I can't imagine that there were, without cars, TV, pollution from cars . . . that's the only frustrating things I can think of . . . 

So I'm sure these things AREN'T frustrating to a lot of people, so all I have to do is be like them, and not get frustrated by these pithy little things.  Hm!  Easier said than done, I know, but when I think of it like that - it seems easier.  I'll try - and I'll delete the "Rants."