AWAKENING
VIEWED THROUGH SELF RESPONSIBILITY
Self-responsibility unravels: we all begin by
placing responsibility outside self, feeling and saying: “You are responsible”.
Then at some point in life, this sense of
responsibility expands to an acceptance that we too play a part- that both the
other and self are responsible and we move to feeling or saying: “We are responsible.”
Authentic spiritual growth however begins from
the turning point “I am responsible”!
In this we move from ‘you’ are responsible and ‘we’ are responsible to complete
Self- responsibility.
Once we have truly imbibed this it expands to the
deeper understanding that ‘No one is
responsible’! We realize the Divine is immanent in everything and everyone
and everything happens or not as it must.
We then take one more leap - to the eureka that
there is ‘nothing to be responsible for’! Eastern and western concepts like Maya- the
play of creation, Shakespeare’s ‘the world is but a stage’ and even quantum
physics theory of the ‘Now moment’ have tried to ‘describe’ this deepest of
understandings but truly, can only point towards it. In analogy, it is like
getting up fro a dream of your house being burgled. Who would you hold
responsible for what? This is the awakening spoken about as enlightenment!
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