remembering

The perception of oneself and others as certain kinds of persons (good, bad, innocent, sinner, superior, inferior, etc) is a product of the belief in separation - the impression that there are separate people doing separate things. In truth there is one eternal being, one infinite process. An aspect of this process is the appearance of individual components which are capable of independent thought and action. There is the tendency for awareness to become lost in the thoughts it perceives, which are reflections/remnants of accumulated sense impressions upon a particular channel/conduit of awareness.

All judgments upon self/other are results of awareness straying into these conditioned thought patterns. They do not represent reality, they're essentially phantoms of past impressions floating across the vision. All judgments, whether in favor or against, are intrinsically false. In truth, there is the one being. The one unfolding process.

It seems that it's possible for components of the one process to either rest in awareness of that oneness or to become identified with the comings and goings of their accumulated thoughts. The latter can make one temporarily forget who they/others are in truth, but it doesn't alter the truth. This forgetting, too, must be part of the one process. As must be the recognizing of truth and our place in it, if/when it occurs.