A butterfly on my hand at Garland Park, in Carmel Mid-Valley. Six weeks before our daughter was born in 2011.

Welcome

All words are concessions. 

The only undeniable truth is the sense "I am, I exist".
The rest are concepts, ideas in the mind and memories in the body.

"When the mind goes silent it feels stupid".

We can name 10,000 fears but don't they all have the same root:
The pure fear of disappearance, the fear of death?

Not to scare you away with the G-word:

The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

1 Corinthians 15:26

The death of "me" as an autonomous body-mind.
The death of "me" according to pride, shame, guilt, blame, investments, expectations.
The death, the exposure, of the misunderstanding that Consciousness is the effect of body.

We are masters in pushing fear away through thinking and distractions.
We have elaborate believes and hopes that work on auto-pilot,
to keep fears outside of our comfort zone.


Can we face any feeling of fear and welcome it completely?
Without attachment, without expectation?
No intention to get rid of it.
Why not...

Fears -- explored in a safe environment -- cannot harm us.
It might be quite embarrassing (if this is the right word)
to see the paper tigers we entertained for decades.

Facing fear with loving, benevolent curiosity?

Our days might be full of unaware fears; precious opportunities to face fear.

The fear of sending me an email with your message: "Hey, that's great I sense a lot of freedom here."

The fear to forget something important, the fear to say something stupid, the fear to be rejected, the fear to be alone;
the fear to waste your life, the fear to relax, the fear of "I don't know"...

The fear of God?


What an interesting topic!

Since decades we might overlook the most obvious.
Most people might never discover that they suffer and decide on behalf of a separate-self;
a "me" that only lives in thinking and body memory.






"Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of Cruelty to conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." 

Bertrand Russell 



Jiddu Krishnamurti:
Observing the root of fear