🪞 Projection or Responsibility? A Gospel & Lojong Collision

How ancient teachings from Jesus and Tibetan Buddhism dismantle blame and reveal the mirror of the soul

We all do it.
Spot the flaw in someone else. Critique their behavior. Feel the subtle heat of righteousness rising in our chest.

But two ancient teachings—one from Jesus, the other from Tibetan mind training—ask the same piercing question:

What if the problem isn’t out there?

✨ Gospel of Thomas, Logion 26:

“You see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but you do not see the beam that is in your own eye.”

🧠 Lojong slogan #12:

“Drive all blames into one.”

At first glance, these seem like separate paths. One is Christian, the other Buddhist.
But they’re both doing divine surgery on the ego’s favorite pastime: projection.

🔎 The Gospel teaching says:

You’re judging someone else’s speck because it echoes something in you.
The problem isn’t their flaw—it’s your blindness.
Only when you’ve removed your own beam can you see clearly enough to offer anything resembling help.

🪬 The Lojong slogan says:

Take all the blame—yes, all of it—and gather it into one: your self-cherishing mind.
It’s not about guilt.
It’s about waking up to the illusion that everyone else is the problem.
Suffering multiplies when we keep outsourcing the cause.

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🪞 But here’s what hit me today:

Reading Logion 26 again, I saw it not just as a rebuke against judging others…
but as a mirror of the subconscious.

Everything I notice in others—especially what offends me—is something unresolved in me.
The beam isn’t just blocking my sight. It’s projecting the whole damn slideshow.

So what’s the remedy?

Bless the ones who irritate you.
Pray for the ones who trigger you.
Wish love for the ones your ego wants to exile.

Because the moment I choose to love them,
I begin to love the part of myself I once disowned.

This isn’t a guilt trip. It’s spiritual aikido.
It doesn’t mean you abandon boundaries or ignore harm.
It means you respond from clarity—not from the wounded place that wants to project pain outward.

When you gather the blame and pull out the beam,
you’re not collapsing into shame.
You’re reclaiming your vision.

And from that vision, compassion isn’t just a virtue.
It’s the natural light of someone who finally sees.

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If you're fumbling today—blaming, bracing, judging—
bless it.

Then turn inward, gently.
There’s a mirror waiting.
And in it, the face of Love.

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