D - I wanted to ask what is the exact boundary between opinion and criticism.
The difference between opinion and criticism is not so much in what is said about a situation or a fact or a person, but in the intentions that generate it.
In fact, you can say what you want about another person - for example - but what is important is the "Why" it is said.
If the reason for saying something about this person by pointing out his behavior - "apparently" for the speaker - "wrong", it is driven by the desire to make the other understand something or to help him to solve a problem he is experiencing, then, at that point, it is an opinion because the intention is good.
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criticism instead, it is usually a destructive criticism; when one criticizes a person, one says: “Look, you are behaving wrongly, you are doing something wrong; you should do so and so and so "; and, usually, at that point, what is it?
It is a clash of "Io»; is the first person who is speaking who has his own ideas, has his biases, has his habits of thinking and behavior and would like the other person to behave as they would behave themselves, regardless of the fact that the other person has his own feel particular and every feeling is different from another, always and in any case in any situation.
So what happens then? It happens that, faced with the same situation, two people will never react in the same way, in the same way, and one can never expect another to behave in the same way, in the same way. Right?
So I would say that the difference between criticism and opinion is mainly determined by motivation at the root of the thinking of those who express themselves: whether it is altruistic or only moved by the ego; therefore the important thing is the intention of one's feeling. Georgei
"It's a clash of I"
This is very evident to me in the various relationships I have. How easy it is to provoke a reaction of defense and then of attack in the other, who feels the strong need to defend his own identity.
How much this is still evident within the Path we are experiencing now.
The more one has the illusion of being above certain identifications, the greater the difficulty in grasping the suggestion of the other.
If we really understood how illusory this little theater is, if we really managed to maintain constant contact with the root, perhaps we could live life more lightly and not fear the judgment of the other.
Of course it is, thanks for remembering.
The value of a gesture or the expression of a thought depends on the intention that moves it and is very clear
The difficulty in everyday life is knowing how to distinguish when to express a thought that cannot be misrepresented….