"The first virtue of non-judgment is acceptance. Non-judgment helps us accept and respect others for the way they are, and life the way it is. Accept first, before judgment. ...
A second virtue of non-judgment is non-prejudice. Prejudice accompanying judgment is one of the main reasons why people feel that judgments are never good. Prejudice is a judgment about someone or a group that is not really true about the person or group. Also, prejudice is a pre-judgment, meaning that prejudice enters into a situation with an already fixed judgment about the person...
A third virtue of non-judgment is non-reaction, which of course goes along with acceptance and non-prejudice. Our thesis here is that value-judgment, and even negative judgment, can be an important response in some situations. Yet we do not need to react with strong negative emotions. This reaction of negative emotion is often why a lot of people feel that judgment is a bad thing. But judgment does not have to be filled with negative emotion"
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