Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Responsibility

RESPONSIBILITY

For a very long time (as time goes) the deep study of Western metaphysics had me feeling guilty for all that appeared "bad" in my experience. The sins of the world were heaped upon my shoulders, because it seemed to me that I was the personal author of all that appeared as my experience. Well, the lights of the world have never intended to convey such a sense of personal responsibility.

This consciousness is finally discovered to be God's Self-awareness for which God is responsible, and for which "we," as humans, have no responsibility whatever. "We" do not have to live "our" Awareness. God does. And, despite many, many "absolute" pronouncements to the contrary, the awareness that presently includes these words is not being all there is to "God." Rather, God is being all there is to this awareness—and there is a vast difference of confusion, wild goose chases and agony between these diametrically opposing (but subtle) view points.

So we gird up our loins to be this NOW-awareness for which God is responsible, not "us" responsible. As "explosion" takes care of the "sound" of the explosion, exactly so, God's Awareness of all God is takes care of "awareness."

To say this again: Awareness, life, is not being all there is to God, but God is being all there is to Awareness—and as awareness, we have nothing of ourselves to do except be the faithful witness we are and stop the business of playing the hypnotic role of an independent actor. You see this, I feel it!

Just last week someone told me, "God and God's awareness are a clear duality." Not so! A television set and a television set's functioning are not two television sets. The misery of the Absolutist's role we play is the attempt to make the functioning into the television set. Individual identity is not God. Rather God is being Individual Identity. Awareness-I is not God, Reality, Isness, etc. Rather, Isness is being this here and now awareness I am!

In the words of the illustration: The whole TV set is being its own functioning, but the functioning is not being all there is to the set. The set is responsible for the functioning. God, Isness, Reality, All, is responsible for what presently appears at hand, so we do not have to waste our time looking ahead, or "upstream." We buckle up the armor and do not do it.

Instead, we enjoy the picture, the chair, bird-son, child or whatever is presently within awareness, knowing Isness, God, is responsible for it all, not an independent big cheese "me." We let go the "me" and find I.

If you would like further guidance in understanding any of William Samuel's work based on Self discover you are welcome to contact me, Sandy Jones - samuelandfriends@gmail.com - Ojai, California -