Of course you have a very limited situation, but even in that limited situation you can sing a song. Even if you are in a jail, chained, imprisoned, nobody can imprison YOU your soul still remains free. Nobody can prevent me from dropping it.Ĭan anybody prevent you from dropping your misery, from transforming your misery into bliss? Nobody. That dimension is conversion, revolution, mutation – because once I know I am responsible, I also know that I can drop it any moment I decide to. Then life starts taking a new turn, starts moving into a new dimension. “I am responsible for my life – for all my suffering, for my pain, for all that has happened to me and is happening to me – I have chosen it this way these are the seeds that I sowed and now I am reaping the crop I am responsible – once this insight becomes a natural understanding in you, then everything else is simple. Whatsoever I am, I am my own creation.” This is the meaning of the sutra.
Nobody else is responsible for me it is absolutely and utterly my responsibility.
How can you be happy in a society which is poor? And how can you be happy in a society which is dominated by the capitalists? How can you be happy with a society which is bureaucratic? How can you be happy with a society which does not allow you freedom?Įxcuses and excuses and excuses – excuses just to avoid one single insight that “I am responsible for myself. What can you do? When the society changes and communism comes and there is a classless world, then everybody will be happy. But the moment you say somebody else – X, Y, Z – is making you suffer, then you cannot do anything to change it. People have millions of ways to shirk responsibility. Your wife is making you suffer, your husband is making you suffer, your parents are making you suffer, your children are making you suffer, or the financial system of the society, capitalism, communism, fascism, the prevalent political ideology, the social structure, or fate, karma, God…you name it! It is always the other who is making you suffer. The ordinary mind always throws the responsibility on somebody else.
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