[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Yassen

So I am a bit confused... Could anyone un-confuse me please? :-)

Ah, certainly.

You are responsible for all things in your reality.

But just as you probably would not claim personal credit for all the wonderful things that happen in your reality

(such as Nobel Peace Prize winners; photosynthesis and all the beautiful stars in the sky)

you would not feel obliged to assume personal moral culpability for all the nasty things that happen in your reality

(such as tyrants; global warming and natural disasters that cause great loss of human lives).

Your personal moral culpability ends at the same limits where your personal powers of conscious creation end;

and for most people, the powers of conscious creation fall far, far short of the levels at which one's ego might grow grandiose enough

to want to assume personal moral culpability for "all the suffering in the world".

As the Buddha said, "with our thoughts we make the world". But then since we have such feeble control of our thoughts, we really have very little control over our making of the world with our thoughts.

If you do not believe me, try exploring your own consciousness, with a little meditation.

Or otherwise, try very hard, for just the next 10 seconds, to absolutely ... NOT .... think of a PINK ELEPHANT.

10 ...

9 ...

8 ...



See what I mean?