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Facing Fear - Even the Fear of Wholeness - Takes Courage

9/27/2019

 
Sometimes, for some of us,
it’s scarier to admit to Wholeness
than it is to insist on brokenness.

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The knowing and sensing of Wholeness
sometimes takes us a bit of time
to acclimate to.

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At a certain level there is a lot of excitement
in the insistence on brokenness – and in trying to fix it.
The anxious sense of aliveness we feel around
judgment, stress, confusion, fear, shame, guilt
and attempts to control or fix it is kind of comforting.
We all know that kind of ‘aliveness’ well.

And although at a deep level none of that feels good -
there's a type of perceived safety in its very familiar tight borders 
and so we tend to stick with it.

Wholeness, Peace, Stillness
have a very different feel of aliveness.

There is a calm quality to Stillness – that is wide, wide open.
No border at all can be found.
And that openness can sometimes seem scary –
or even seem boring.

But when we have the courage to
allow the fear fully and allow the boredom fully
and ‘see’ what is on the other side, so to speak, 
then the expansiveness of Stillness
begins to reveal more and more of Itself ...

and there is nothing at all scary or boring about that. 
​
The courage to face discomfort reveals what our lack of courage hid.​
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Joy Not Fear

8/5/2014

 
Sometimes my daughter asks me for advice about practical matters and I often find myself saying something like, “Do what feels most joyful – don’t follow fear.”

When we catch on to the mechanism of fear it loses its pull and moving from and in joy begins to have an ease about it.

But this joy only reveals itself when we are now empty of conditioning. Conditioning is past programming which views life now in a fragmented, scary way. When believed, this programming runs rampant creating all kinds of fears and strange movements.

But when we perceive directly, freshly, unfiltered ----  is there now really anything to fear?

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Fear Blinds Us

7/29/2014

 
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At one level, the “I want to be safe” feeling drives so much of the violence in the world. Dominate, degrade, even kill those who we believe can hurt us is, within many cultures, felt to be a justified way of ensuring safety.

Fear blinds us sometimes so fully that we cannot even see how absurd it is to actually believe violence will make us safer. That belief does not make any sense on any level                                                                whatsoever.

​May we all somehow wake up to the absurdity of our beliefs and realize that our essence is thankfully not at the level of the body or appearances. When safety of the body is no longer in the forefront, then the possibility opens to discover that which is universal.

Living to simply keep the body safe is not really living.


Fear Comes From Misperception

4/21/2014

 
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There is no need to try and get rid of fear.

If we experience fear because we mistake a rope for a snake we don't need to work on getting rid of the fear. The fear dissolves naturally when we no longer misperceive what actually is.

Psychological fear or anxiety comes from a misperception of what actually is - reality is not at all frightening or dissatisfying.

When we misperceive reality or what we are as fragmented and separate, we then feel that misperception as a sense of fear or discontent.

Thankfully, we have a built in GPS that consistently lets us know immediately
when we have misperceived what is. Any sense of inner conflict is an indication of misperception and an opportunity to look again - directly.

Statements such as "There is no separation - we are all one" pop up in songs, movies, books and in conversations about life, spirituality or quantum physics - but rarely do those who voice these statements really consider how truly knowing that would impact their experience. And rarely do those who voice these statements seek to discover directly the truth of no separation.

Fear is Not Natural

4/18/2014

 
Fear causes us to do some strange things - unnatural things.
​
It can cause us to say and do things that we later wonder why in the world we said and did them.

But how can we not be afraid when we believe we are what our thoughts tell us we are?

If we believe we are these vulnerable beings who are dependent on others for their sense of well being, then fear seems valid - and actions motivated by fear justified.


But what if we are actually not these vulnerable, needy beings our thoughts tell us we are? What if our true sense of well being is not dependent on anything at all?

Imagine how different your experience here would be without fear -

and then imagine how different the world would be without fear.
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    It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face."
      Sri Nisargadatta     Maharaj

      Einstein said,
    "No problem can be solved 
      from the same
       level of consciousness
           that created it."
      
     

     
    To see new solutions
       we must see differently.
    ​Dhyana Stanley
                             
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