Morning muse 10: Dealing with blame (karma)

The ordinary mind always throws the responsibility on someone else. It is always the other who is making you suffer. Your wife, husband, parents, children, society, karma, god is making you suffer. People have a lot of ways to shirk responsibility and the moment you say something else it makes you suffer. Drive all that blame into one and that one is you. Once you accept that you are responsible for your suffering, the seeds were sown by you and start accepting then everything becomes simple.

When someone blames you, what do you usually do? Blame them back or you put up resistance in yourself. When someone blames you, they actually take away some negative karma from you. If you understand this and don't put up resistance and feel happy about it, then you drop your resistance. "Oh, good. That person is blaming me. Good. Something is going away." And when you drop the resistance, your karma goes away. Do you see what I'm saying?

So when someone blames you and you put up resistance in your mind, and you don't react, then you are not allowing them to take the negative karma. Outside you may resist, but inside if you don't resist, and feel happy, "Oh, good, somebody is there to blame me and take some negative karma," you will feel immediately lighter.

How does it feel to you when someone blames you? Do you feel some heaviness? Usually, when someone blames you, you feel hurt and you feel unhappy, you feel sad. This is all because you're. resisting. That is it. What you resist, persists. The ignorant person tells someone, "Don't blame me because it hurts me."

An enlightened person also says "Don't blame me." Do you know why? Because it might hurt you. This is a beautiful point. What are the points? You get hurt because you resist the blame. When someone blames you, you resist it inside. Outside you may not resist, but inside when you resist, then that hurts you.

You have a very limited situation and it is up to you as to how you wish to react. You can sing a song or cry tears of helplessness. Even with chains on your feet you can dance and the sound of chain will have a melody in it.