Outgrowing Victimhood
Superar la victimización
A reflection on how the search for awakening shifts from seeking something in the future to recognizing what is already here, and on the movement from victimhood into responsibility.
Outgrowing Victimhood
A reflection on how the search for awakening shifts from seeking something in the future to recognizing what is already here, and on the movement from victimhood into responsibility.
The seeking evolves. What shifts is your understanding of what you are actually looking for. You could say you dropped the search, but what you really dropped is the attempt to find something tomorrow, something outside of what is happening now. This is what I keep pointing to: it is really what is happening now. It is here. You can seek as hard as you want, but seek now, within what is already here. In that sense, you could also say, "Drop the seeking." It amounts to the same thing.
From victimhood to responsibility
That position of being a victim has brought you this far. But it is too small a dress; you have outgrown it. What comes next is responsibility, because responsibility is the opposite of victimhood. There is an end to responsibility, in a sense: when we take responsibility all the way to its conclusion, we meet God. But we do not meet God through victimhood. We come to a point where we can step into responsibility. That is the correct sequence. We survive in victimhood until we become capable of being responsible. These are all valid vehicles, valid mechanisms. There is no shame in that.