Crime and punishment
The Swami says there are four paths people take – one is the person who seeks entertainment and another those who seek things – these are people who are trying to overcome pain. The other two are those who have questions and those who love unconditionally.
There is also another type of people and it is those who seek blame. In the American culture of looking for someone to point the finger at it is no wonder that some people are always on track to sue someone or to blame someone for a problem that has no beginning and no end.
Take the text my sister sent me last night – you should have told me mom was so sick. Uh, I did. For two months, I paraded my mother from one doctor to another and one lab test after another all pointing to the indisputable fact that she was very sick and that the road ahead was a slippery slope to a place none of us want to go.
I’ve spent the last five months with my stomach in knots about how to help my mother – always coming back to one conclusion, the one my mother in law offered, I have only one role “to make my mother’s pain less.”