Noble Spirit Lion ~ Artist Andrew A. Gonzalez
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Itβs Always the βIβ
Just as God enjoys the world through the senses of every one of us, so do I β who, like you, am that very God β enjoy the world through anything I become aware of.
When I identify with the mind, I use it to create through. When I identify and operate as the ego, I use that to create through. The imagination, the feelings, etc.
No function works except I operate through it, energizing and directing it.
Usually I remain quiet and just observe, allowing the facultyΒ I created to make recommendations or the form I created to carry out an action.
But what is common to everything that happens in my life β whether I say it was my mind or ego or heart that did it β is that βIβ am around, observing and directing the show. βIβ am reaching the conclusions and making the decisions.
When I say βNo,β we call it me having a bad mood or being down, etc.Β No, that is the βIβ directing the show.
Or, another classic, we say βYou made me angry.β No, βyouβ didnβt. Itβs always the βI.β
When I utter a decision in a fit of anger, we say that itβs my vasana (or the bottle) talking. No, itβs the βIβ talking, having identified with and seeing the world through the filter of that vasana.
Whatever filter it chooses to look at the world through, itβs still the βIβ that reaches a conclusion and decides to act. (1)
We tend to remove the βIβ from the equation in favor of the body-mind complex. The latter may carry out the wishes of the βI,β but that doesnβt change things.
It always has been, always is, and always will be βIβ who decides to act, whoever or whatever form carries out the action. Upon this fact is personal responsibility based.
If what Iβve said is the truth, all other things being equal, we should experience a feeling of relief and release upon reading it.Β (2) If what Iβve said is not the truth or takes us further from it, we should experience either no release or further confusion and frustration.
Footnotes
(1) The βIβ could also dismiss the vasana but it chooses not to.
(2) Because the truth will set us free.
