The Master gives himself up
to whatever the moment brings.
He knows that he is going to die,
and her has nothing left to hold on to:
no illusions in his mind,
no resistances in his body.
He doesn't think about his actions;
they flow from the core of his being.
He holds nothing back from life;
therefore he is ready for death,
as a man is ready for sleep
after a good day's work
There are 3 basic emotions that drive people to act as they do: Fear, Greed, and Jealousy.
While fear drives the average person, what makes us who we are is how we deal with it. Many religions teach that one should dissociate from the fear and let go of what causes this emotion. Numerous religions rely on a god to help relax their fears. Most of what we fear and worry about will never happen. Whether it is a fire, bankruptcy, car crash, etc. people choose to live with these fears. It draws energy from us as well as “time”. It is all pointless. We could better focus our energy elsewhere and be productive or relaxed. Wouldn’t a person rather feel relaxed and deal with an issue as it arises?
What does the majority of the population fear most? They fear death. Death will come to all of us. Why do people worry about it? Most believe in an afterlife, a form of heaven. Does arriving at a place of paradise really seem so scary that they want to cling to a body that succumbs to disease, pain, and sickness?
I’ve never met a person that has been scared shitless about where they came from before birth. It isn’t even considered. Virtually all religions believe that in one form or another we will return back to the source. Even the Jews and Christians believe that God knew them before they were created as written in Jeremiah. Why would anyone not fear birth, but fear returning back to the source? Why bother to have fear?
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Fear has no purpose whatsoever.
I have been very afraid.
Now I am not.
I can report from experience, that fear can be discarded completely.
But probably only by going so deep into fear that one breaks out the other side of it.
One finds oneself in the eye of the cyclone: calm, safe, relieved, and bathed in sunshine; gazing with wonder, upon the face of God.
Fear is borne of the unknown. While many religions believe in a "heaven" and various belief systems say we "return to the source," these are just words. None of us KNOWS what heaven or "the source" genuinely is. Heaven/Source represents the great unknown.
It's like being thrown into a strange room blindfolded. We hear noises and feel textures that we are unfamiliar with.
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