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“The Buddhist does not see the world as divided between warring good and evil influences, but rather views the wandering mind non-judgementally, as needing only constant gentle correction.”

This is something I never understood about the New Age movement.

You use the word correction. Now, whether done gently or forcefully, the act of correcting something implies a path of some sort— to compensate for getting off-course while moving toward a target, if you will. If you cannot judge that you are off-course, how can you possibly (gently) correct yourself? Further, can you define a target without asserting a judgement? Can you say “Let’s aim for the stars” without simultaneously implying, not the moon, and not the earth?

Even viewing the mind as “wandering” is a strong judgement!

If the enemy is simply a name for whatever is pulling you off-course, then isn’t that embedded in any judgement of correction?