GROUNDHOG DAY – FOR WHOM IS THIS GAME ?
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Does anyone else get the feeling that everyday is groundhog day (if you saw the movie). Nothing really changes. The same repetition over and over again and again. Actually Robert Adams wrote about this he wrote:

“The joke is you keep coming back again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, having all sorts of experiences, until one century from now, or one billion years from now, you get tired of playing the game. And you say, “Wait a minute. I seem to be going around in a circle. Does it ever end?” And then you finally ask the question, “For whom is the game? Who believes in their humanity? Who believes in their experiences? Who is it that seems to suffer or who is it that seems to be happy?”

Remember human happiness and human suffering are two sides of the same coin. There is no difference. You get tired of the whole thing. So you pose the question to yourself, “For whom is this karma? For whom is this world? For whom is this game? Who has to go through these things?” But instead of doing this most people go to psychiatrists, to psychologists, to preachers, to ministers and so forth.

They never get the right answer, because those aforementioned people tell you how to deal with effects. You go to a doctor and you say, “My arm hurts when I hold it like this.” So he says, “Don’t hold it like that.” And that’s what we all do. We’re looking for answers from external means, and you can never get an answer to your problems or to anything from the world, because the world changes continuously.

One time the answer may be this way and another time the answer may be that way, depending on circumstances, depending on the time. As an example, fifty years ago if you had a cold and you went to a doctor they would draw blood. They would give you all kinds of antibiotics and they would give you everything that was in style in those days. Today if you have a cold they do something else. Everything changes and people who are going to do what’s in vogue at the time, but the real answer is within yourself.

The solution is within you. Yet you go about it in the wrong way when you’re looking to solve a problem with another problem, which is your mind. You cannot use your mind to solve a problem, because your mind is the cause of the problem to begin with. And you cannot ask anybody else for the solution, because they are using their mind to give you the solution what they think is right. The answer of course is to know your Self.”

Robert Adams