Everything I see around me, all is the reflection, the creation, the amplification of me. Or, put another way, all I see is what I created. I am but Mind.
I must accept that I created all of this before one iota of it can change. If I do not accept that I created it all, then I will be looking to assign blame for those parts of it I don’t like.
Who do you blame?
Seek them out. Your mother, for preferring someone else? Your father, for being an alcoholic, disengaged, whatever else you might think of? Do you blame God, or destiny, or fate for what seems out of your control? My child is bi-polar. Why did the accident happen? Life’s not fair; there’s no level playing field. It’s not what you know, but who you know.
And so on.
As long as I am engaged in assigning blame, so long am I refusing to accept responsibility, and so long can nothing really change in my experience.
That is why it is so important not to pick up blame. Blame is a heavy weight bound to you with iron chains. Once you pick it up, you may never put it down. You may spend the rest of your time here trying to assign blame, wondering who and what is more to blame for your disappointments, your failures, your fears.
Let us refuse ever to pick up blame again, recognizing it as ego’s weapon to keep us from accepting responsibility for every part of our experience. Let us recognize blame at once, and dismiss it.
To each situation that presents something unwanted, turn and face it fully. Do not try to escape the unwanted thing, whether it is rejection, or failure, or fear. Stand still inwardly, and feel it fully.
After you have done this, it can never have as much power over you again. You have brought the unwanted to consciousness, and the more often you do this, the more the light of your consciousness will shine it away.
When will I realize that what I see all around me is my own creation? When will I be ready to take responsibility for all of it, and stop blaming anything or anyone for even the smallest slight?
Stop blaming. That would mean you had also stopped judging. Blame requires judgment to go before it.
Suspend judgment and blame disappears
