Video: Here
Audio: Here
Transcript
So we're gonna talk about fear and specifically how fear can both be helpful and unhelpful for us in our practices. So many people, they are driven to practices because of fear. It is the fear of getting sick, for example,
that often gets people started with different types of health practices. Or it could be the fear of not being a good enough lover that gets people interested in sexual practices. Or it could be a fear of missing out on some state of consciousness that motivates us into meditative practices and on and on.
That example goes and can be extrapolated into many different arenas. Often fear creates a trigger.
It's, a set of uncomfortable sensations which moves us in a particular direction in order to abate,
said fear. But now let's say we engage with the practice and we have it humming along, and we have gotten some level of skill and cultivation within the practice. We have done just enough often in these cases to settle that fear.
Some aspect in our mind believes that we have done enough to quell the original danger and or whatever it was that we were missing out on by the level of cultivation that we have currently been able to bring about.
Now what ends up happening, though, is that there is more fear on the other side of it. This is why a lot of people never truly develop an exquisite level of skill in a particular arena or go very, very deep with any particular set of practices and develop more of a middling level, a mean level range of a particular skill set.
Because now fear prevents them from the death that must occur for them to go truly deep with a particular set of practices. For example, if the fear is around health, well, what would it mean for you to truly move in the direction of true, radiant, whole being synergistic, synchronic health, where every part of you is truly clear and flowing and that in no blockage that is truly significant enough to prevent you from this radiant health?
Most people can't imagine what that would be like.
And so, in order to avoid the fear that comes with going deeper into the practices that would lead you there and the depth of the current self that you know, you stay somewhere in the middle, and this again can be extrapolated into any other arena.
If you are a martial artist who was bullied when you were a kid and got into martial arts in order to deal with the fear of persecutors and attackers. But now how the fear, of true power, or of getting hurt, or of certain layers of the self that must be shed to move forward stops you from going truly deep into the art.
Well, then again, you stay in the middle and there is no right or wrong answer with this. It is simply to point out that people often get sandwiched within fear when it comes to the practices that they have chosen.