For me Jam, you're touching on the paradox of life itself. Awesome *OK* You said...

" I just wish to avoid the drama and identification in the hope of revealing unconditional love,joy, and peace."

By avoiding the drama, in fact all we do is avoid that fragmented aspect of ourselves which has manifested the drama in the first place. Actually even to call it 'the drama' (with the subtle energy I can feel in your words), is that not judgmental? To me, I feel a subtle "I'd rather have 'this' than 'that'. But when the soul is truly unfettered, choice is made purely on the possibility to learn, evolve and grow. When the soul (unfettered by ego) arrives at a junction with one direction heading into 'hell' and the other into 'heaven', a choice is made purely on the basis of what most can be learned. For example, my soul experiences the current situation on Earth right now, more or less as pure hell. Yet I enjoy the possibility to evolve through it. Also, how can 'love, joy and peace be beyond duality?' When they are defined as things relative to something else.

In my experience, the only 'thing' beyond duality is the absolute - pure presence, which is neither 'this' nor 'that'. It just is. How do you get to this place? The Openhand Approach is to actively confront all of those situations that would draw you in (rather than avoiding them), then to transcend them - which means to actively feel intimately through all of the contractions that happen; to soften into these contractions, in which case you reclaim the lost fragments of soul buried there. That's the purpose of the soul - that's what it does. Only then, is true Enlightenment attained.

So I ask, 'What is the meaning of 'judgment'?' In my view, it's more than saying this is 'good' or 'bad'. It's when you form fixed or subconscious subtle opinions about things which inadvertently define you by them. So what is true 'non-judgment'? It's when you can drink in the fullness of sheer hell, and not contract, then you're in a true place of non-judgment. What many are doing on the spiritual path at the moment, is feeling an initial sense of unconditionality (which feels like love or joy or peace), but then making a decision that's all they want - they make a judgment! When one considers advanced ET beings, of those that are currently engaged in the human story, many are neither malevolent nor benevolent - they simply do what they do because they can and see nothing wrong with it - just as the mainstream exploits pigs, sheep and cattle within the industrial foodchain. Having said that, anyone who can consciously recall suffering live DNA manipulation - as many now can - would probably argue otherwise! With best wishes Open