Responsible for YOUR Life
Do you know this to be true? Or do you play the blame game?
This is Harmless. He was at one time part of a gun carrying group who were experts at taking a shot at someone with criticism, blame, irritation, hate, put-downs, and multiple blows of harm.
What is this guy’s story? How did he go from harmful to harmless?
He began to wonder about himself. Yeah! That’s what he did. Then, he noticed he felt a little out of sorts after he took a shot at someone else. For a while he thought about the pain associated with taking a shot. He shrugged it off with they’ll get over it! What’s the big deal? He, however, noticed he did not like the impact on him.
Harmless began to be honest with himself. It was a mixed bag for a period of time because he enjoyed poking fun at others, putting them in their place, blaming them for his misery. It was a rooted habit for him. He didn’t know what to do to change the habit and for a long time he kept up the habit.
What did Harmless do to get free of his habit of taking shots?
It began with him feeling sick from the rebound of his shots taken. Let me say that again…HARMLESS began to get sick from the rebound of hurting others.
This is a common starting point.
When we hurt someone and experience the hurt backfiring at us, we have an opportunity to STOP making ourselves sick and STOP doing harm to others.
We take a long, deep look into our SELF. This is step ONE. If we are not willing to look at our SELF, we cannot STOP harming others which harm us.
We need to be able to understand the cause within our mental forms and STOP them. When you blame someone else for what is going on in YOU ask yourself what causes YOU to externalize the blame outward? What keeps YOU from studying yourself in such a way that YOU make taking a shot at the external world as a habit form.
This study takes time, effort, and a willingness to be honest with ourselves.
If you continue to blame the world, you are not aware of your power to decide. YOU lack power to choose NOT to act in a harmless way. You are deficient in power to STOP yourself. You just act out, going off at the mouth, and going into a daydream of defending your acts by believing you had nothing to do with the harm.
If YOU find yourself up against this situation where your power is insufficient, you need to study yourself in a more honest way. One of the hardest ways is to begin to stop defending yourself followed by an admission that YOU made a mistake.
Each step takes time. Do your best to study by yourself. Notice how much you blame the world of others, things, and nature itself. Are you up for it? Are you willing to study yourself?
It is up to you. The deep Source cannot shine through you until you are harmless.
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