"Infected by Light" Episode 10 | The Faith of Not Waiting for God
"Your suffering is not the world's fault.
It is because you are not yet yourself."
1. What is external attribution thinking?
External attribution thinking is
"a mode of thought that attributes the causes of one's own disadvantages or failures to external factors."
.
The other person is at fault.
The boss is at fault.
Society is at fault.
Politics is at fault.
The country is at fault.
Luck is bad.
God has given me a trial.
At first glance, this structure looks like healthy self-defense.
But ideologically speaking, it is clear.
The abandonment of agency.
A withdrawal from one's own causal responsibility.
What is important is that external attribution thinking is not a form of "weakness."
It is not a problem of the weak.
It is an "escape circuit" prepared as a structure.
2. The premise of Indian mythology
--God is not the cause
In Indian mythology and Hindu thought,
there is no Western-style "structure of domination by an omnipotent God."
There is only one thing there.
Karma--
your actions return to you.
God does not judge.
God does not punish.
God does not manipulate.
God simply exists
as an entity that maintains the order of the world (Dharma).
God is not the direct cause of human misfortune.
This point is critically important.
3. What Shiva's destruction signifies
Shiva, the god of destruction, is not a god who punishes people.
What he destroys is
Attachment
Arrogance
Ignorance
The False Self
In other words—
it is not the external, but the internal structurethat is.
What is destroyed is not the "world."
It is you yourself, who sees the world that way.
Here, too, there is no shifting of blame.
4. The Coldness of Karma Philosophy
In Indian philosophy,
no matter how harsh the circumstances,
it is ultimately treated like this.
"That is the result of your own past actions."
It is cold.
It is cruel.
But at the same time,
this isthe ultimate declaration of freedomas well.
If you are the cause,
you can change the future yourself.
You don't need anyone's permission.
You don't have to wait for anyone's salvation.
5. The True Nature of Blaming Others
Let's organize this.
Blaming others is,
dependence on God
dependence on fate
dependence on society
Dependence on others
is a
structure of mental dependencethat has taken the form of.
Indian mythology thoroughly rejects this.
Because
liberation (moksha) is 'detachment from dependence.'
6. Thought
If one were to dare to sum up the worldview of Indian mythology in a single sentence, it would be this.
"The world is not unfair. It is you who are still incomplete."
Here,
neither the world, nor God, nor society,
can be used as an excuse by anyone.
To go even further,
this structure can be expressed as follows.
"God will not save you. But God does not bind you either."
There is no comfort.
It is not a religion that guarantees hope.
However,
in the sense that it does not look away from reality, it is the most sincere, most cruel, and most free structural thought.
7. Differences as Distorted Modern Christian Thought
The original teachings of Christ were
by no means a philosophy of
dependence on external power, 'being saved by others.'
"The kingdom of God is within you."
This single sentence says it all.
It is
a transformation that occurs within,
the death and rebirth of the self,
a shift in consciousness—
a structure of awakening that is extremely mythological in the Indian sense.
However, in the modern age,
Christianity has been given a different form.
Salvation is something that comes from the "outside."
Sin is something one is "born with."
Responsibility is something "entrusted to God."
There,
people were changed from subjects who awaken into objects waiting for salvation.
This is not the evolution of faith.
It is a simplification and corruption of thought.
I
walked the path of awakening found in Indian mythology.
I experienced the moment when the illusions peeled away and the world ceased to be my enemy
within myself.
Therefore, I declare:
Salvation is not something that is given.
It only happens through awakening.
However, this is my story.
To awaken is to become free.
And freedom is
nothing more than another name for the resolve to take responsibility for everything.
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