Be Responsible

Be responsible for your actions and become free!

We play a game all the time.

More than ever, we look for causation for the negativity we hold within ourselves. As we understand more of ourselves, we try and assign cause to forces outside ourselves: the systems outside, people who impacted us negatively and to whom we hold them responsible.  A parent, a past incident that betrayed our trust, binds us in reinforcing our view. Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcVu6fgN3-g

We want to be free of this negativity, and ask repeatedly, how do we break free? Ironically we collude with our ‘hell’ yet ask for methods to break free. Psychoanalysis, then fuels the phenomena, rather than eradicate it. It goes on assigning cause to something ‘outside’. We invest in our hell: it makes us feel portent. It gives us energy, even if it is negative. It feeds the ego.

The ego, which is our shadow, a fiction, we have formulated; an invention acts as a barrier to viewing reality. Human action is not causal: it does not respond to cause and effect. It is not a science, not subject to analytical thinking, does not lend itself to an algorithm.  Behavior is a function of location and the identity – it is a locale from which springs thought, feeling and action. We are not mechanistic, that we like animals respond to the stimuli outside. We have choices, that spring from our human consciousness, to make choices, beyond frozen patterns, beyond past actions. The past can cast a shadow suggesting a programmed behavior, but we have the responsibility, to change the course of our response. I argued in an earlier blog, that an organization is perfectly designed. It is, because of the investment made to keep it that way. If the outcome is negative, then to, it is because the systems are designed to keep it ineffective.

First though, we must take responsibility for ourselves. We must hold ourselves responsible for what is happening to us. We must take responsibility for how we are perceived, understood and dealt with. Truth be said, we deserve what we get.

This choice is not of fatality, of being mortgaged to our past. This choice is a living agenda to redefine and make choices: new ones.  These new choices that help us to move us away from inevitable patterns that lead to inevitable consequences. We need to ‘let go’, accept fully what is. Let go, is not about dropping something, run to the other side. It simply means, let it be and observe. Allow to let what is happening, happen, unconditionally. By and by, you will become aware that it is the only way. Relax. Let the phenomena continue, neither defy or deny it. Neither renounce or denounce it. Neither accuse or defuse it. Just watch it.

Allow yourself to be. Become a conduit. Stay responsive. Let your poetry emerge, drop being the poet. Let the dance emerge, stay away from being the dancer.

Transformation springs from taking responsibility. Holding oneself accountable.