You Aren't Responsible

You aren’t responsible for any of this. You didn’t do it. You can’t make it better. You aren’t the creator of what goes on here, and you can’t improve it. You can just relax about it. You are not the responsible party. It’s not on your shoulders. It never was.

Everything in the universe is functioning perfectly. It runs by itself, and nothing is ever wrong or out of place. You can just be here in it, alive, surprised at what happens next. You are aware, and that’s all. Awareness. Awareness doesn’t have the power to change anything. It’s merely aware. It’s conscious of what is, but it doesn’t change what is. Anything besides this simple, presently-occurring awareness can be disregarded as irrelevant.

So everything is irrelevant, really. Everything except the simple awareness that you are experiencing right now. Even the idea that this awareness is personal – that there is a person being aware – is irrelevant. It’s not needed. The awareness is fine by itself. It doesn’t need you. It doesn’t need you, or any other object. It is not what is in awareness that counts – it is the awareness itself.

So we’re looking to see that this is what we are: this simple awareness, and nothing else. And we are also looking to see what we are not: we are not an individual, self-propelled, separate entity that must struggle to control its world and fix it all up right. We are looking to see that we are already free because there was never a personal center to our experience, other than what we imagine.

Simply allow this inquiry to be set in motion. You don’t have to try, or work, or expend effort in this inquiry. The ball is rolling, and it will go along under its own power. Whatever is discovered will be discovered. This is all there is, always being held in awareness, nothing to do about it, nothing to improve about it. This awareness is your only being, and it requires nothing to be. There is never anything going on other than this.

You don’t have to be diligent. You don’t have to be courageous. You don’t have to be strong. Life is taking care of you, and any effort on your part is simply swimming against the current. There is no need to swim against the current. The river is safe, and will let no harm come to you. Let yourself remember the truth of these words, from the time before history began, when this same awareness was, and it was you. It’s what you’ve known all along.

What you are not is separate. What you are is all of it.