How fear controls because of our distance from it
Thu, 09/24/2020 - 16:28
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It's crystal clear that doubt and fear get in the way of our spiritual emancipation. Fear of all manner of things, especially and including fear of the unknown. How to overcome it?
The problem with any experience like this, and probably the common denominator in all situations, is more the expectancy of what could happen and what our feelings will be in response. Again it's this fear of the unknown. So what if we get purposefully intimate with the feeling of fear? What if we completely embrace it the moment it arises?
I maintain that actually it's not the issue itself that's the problem, but the distance we try to build from it. This distance creates the unknown and the expectancy of what could happen. This in turn pertuates the fear.
But when we delve right in, when we turn towards it when it arises and then 'close the distance with it', suddenly we're looking into it. We're intimate with it. The shock and the expectation dissolve. You're right there in it. Then suddenly the bubble can burst. The fear subsides. You've exploded the myth, and what's more, that particular fear can no longer hold you in life.
It reminds me of this great scene from the TV series Kung Fu...
