Why Don't I Change?

Is it not because the thing that is the very cause of all my suffering, undertakes this project of and for change? There are a million ways by which different people and groups tell me, do this and you will be free, do that and you will be free. Read the Gita and you will be transformed. You read it and say, “how true that is, I am going to live according to that.” But the me undertaking all these actions is the same old me, who has to be changed. The methods and the experiences through those methods might be new or different but the experiencer remains the SAME. It’s a sleight of hand trick where the thing which is causing the trouble is put into a position where as if it were the thing that was trying to make the change. It’s a deception! We don’t look at the root of the problem because the very root of the problem is the one looking.