Question About Responsibility

[Nash]

How is it that we are responsible for everything that happens, yet simultaneously we have no control over anything? 

[Bluff]

Your true Self is the reason for all that exists

But there is no person to take any responsibility of what is happening 

[mandyjw]

Because you're one with it all, so the controller is the controlled. 

[Spaceofawareness]

You brain has learned responses, and over time it forms these responses by observing outcomes based on previous behaviour. This is essentially the storing of cause and effect as memory. This allows future action to be shaped by expectations during similar situations.

For example, if you are a small child and you have no concept of hot, and you place your hand on a hot iron, your action, touching a hot iron, becomes linked to the feeling of intense burning pain. This link is formed and so you learn to never touch a hot iron. 

That is an immediate effect. But sometimes effects aren’t always apparent so readily, and so consequences of actions need to be explained by an outside observer which has knowledge of such things. 

Imagine you are a teenager who never washes their clothes out of laziness, then because of this they no longer have any clean clothes to wear. An adult parent will explain to them that, due to the repeated behaviour of failing to wash their clothes, they now have no clean ones. Slowly you learn to extend this causal sightedness further and further into the future.

As this knowledge of cause and effect accumulates in a person, so to does responsibility. As a person gains this knowledge, they also inherit the responsibility to do something about these issues. 

Now this all being the case, you being awareness are ultimately not the doer of actions, you simply witness them, making you not responsible. But your body and brain are responsible. And you being this limited awareness are kind of forced into this limited expression of awareness from this singular perspective, and so, unless, as the awareness you enjoy observing pain and suffering, it is in the best interests of awareness for the body to do what should be done within its causal knowledge and capability, which means taking responsibility wherever possible.

As the awareness all that needs to be done is to witness these facts, and hope that the brain will realise it is in the best interest of itself to take responsibility. Life tends to get better when one does this, problems evaporate, bills get paid, etc. So if you want a less problem filled life, hopefully your brain will realise taking responsibility is actually what’s best. Now you as awareness can just sit back and watch as things get better, but knowing that ultimately it is all just a play within you, no matter the content, but, since it seems that the body is the vehicle for this awareness, at least for this limited time here, that the body should help itself.

Edited June 19, 2020 by Spaceofawareness