Suffering and the oil spill in the gulf

The Oil Spill in the gulf is continuing andd appears to be the greatest envvironmental disaster in human history, topping even such events as Chernobyl and other nuclear disasters, perhaps with the exception of the depleted uranium munitions being used in Iraq. So when environemental disasters apppear, I always think is this my fault or the people who hate me, so I can assign blame. A psychotic thought but totally normal and natural. So- I thought this was my enemies. But on further meditation I reflected and after reading the story of the man born blind and when Jesus was asked is this the man's sin or his parents that this man is born blind, Jesus replied neither this is so that the Glory of God can be made manifest on earth. And this enviromental disaster strikes me as the collective responsibility of all people, in all our bad actions and negative deeds, each of us has in some wway contributed to this energy that is destroying the beauty and wonder of the precious Gulf. I can look into my karma and see it is my anger and my inability to control myself, and I can look at all the people who have stolen from me or lied to me or cheated me and say it was them.

The oil spill in the Gulf is a reflection of each of our karma, in some way or another. We all benefit from oil, if Barack Obama has not told us that we can assign blame to those in higher office nobody ever will. His decision to do absolutely nothing about the War in Iraq makes the NeoConservative platform an act of enlightened self-interest. We can't criticize the government as easily after this because Obama has done nothing different than Bush. We have to find a new cause for what is wrong with our planet.

We can't sit around and blame eachother, BP, Obama, or anyone else. Trying to resolve the crisis should be a personal goal for everybody, as should the goal of ending all suffering. Jesus also said, If someone commands this Mountain to throw itself into the ocean and has sufficient faith the Mountain will be cast down into the sea and become dust. I think we should all be working as much as we can to make a personal commitment to try to reverse the course of sufffering being intiated by this spill with the consciousness that we have all created it. It sounds impossible but with enough faith we can make a difference in the world. That difference can come from trying to transform our negative patterns and energies.