In this episode, let’s talk progression versus tradition. I’m all for carrying forward the wisdom of the generations before me and I’m also curious as where the line is between heresy and progress. As the common adage goes: change is the only constant. Given that this fact is so commonly known, why do people tend to cling onto the way things have been?

The paradox here is that in order to grow, we must first be in acceptance of how things are now. If I try to progress my belief system but I do it while I’m judging it and others that believe that way, that’s not going to get me anywhere. That’s a form of resistance where I create a battle between me and the old way of doing things.

I talk about the way forward in Episode 17; what is a good practice for us in order to know what or when change is good? I’ll give you a hint: it’s a form of faith. People who have a lot of fear around progress and change are likely going to call our new kind of faith blasphemous. Who is right? Who is wrong? I’m happy to say that the answer to this doesn’t matter.

Embracing change from the inside out and having true acceptance of it all is the way to stop the battle between the judgmental and the judged.