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From my own experience I can say to you: The fear is not more than six inches deep.
Your running will be real, your escaping will be real, but the cause will be nonsubstantial.
Fear is made of ignorance of one’s own self.
can be shattered by seeing someone die. It can be shattered in many ways, it is very fragile. You are managing it somehow by not looking in.
Mind you, I will look everywhere else; that pocket is my safety, I can still hope that it may be in that pocket. I have left it deliberately and I am not going to touch it. Whether I find the ticket or not, I am not going to look in that particular pocket.”
This false ego, which you have created by not looking in, by continuously looking out, is the root cause of fear.
and weaving. The inner talk comes to a stop, a halt, and you are suddenly in.
other’s pool of being will reflect you.
People are repeating Christian prayers, Mohammedan prayers, Hindu prayers—all ways to avoid meditation. These are not meditations, remember. Mind is so cunning that in the name of meditation it has created many false phenomena.
That nonfunctioning of the mind is meditation—no chanting, no mantra, no image, no concentration. One just simply is. In that isness, the ego disappears, and with the ego the shadow of the ego disappears.
People believe in the immortality of the soul not because they know but because they are afraid. The more cowardly a person is the more is the possibility that he will believe in the immortality of the soul—not that he is religious, he is simply cowardly.
“I” is not immortal. This “I” is just temporary; it is manufactured by us. Fear is the shadow of “I.”
Go in, look in … and if it is empty, so what? Then that’s our nature, then that’s what we are. Why should one be worried about emptiness? Emptiness is as beautiful as the
you can see, you are not it. You can see thoughts, then you are not thoughts; you can see your feelings, then you are not your feelings;
All your fears are by-products of identification.
people have an immense capacity to adjust themselves to any situation.
You will be ending with it! Do you think you will be standing on an island and the whole world will end, leaving you alone? Don’t be worried.
but to the child it is a friend—and a friend when nobody else is there to help him—in the darkness of the night, alone in the bed, still the teddy bear is with him.
What is his God? Just a teddy bear. Out of his childhood fear, man has created a father figure who knows all, who is all-powerful, who is everywhere present; if you have enough faith in him he will protect you.
Our prayers, chanting, mantras, our scriptures, our gods, our priests, are all part of our psychological armor. It is very subtle. A Christian believes that he will
Once the armor is dropped you can live out of love, you can live in a mature way. The fully matured person has no fear, no defense; he is psychologically open and vulnerable.
Just watch all your acts, all your beliefs, and find out whether they are based in reality, in experience, or based in fear. Anything based in fear has to be dropped immediately, without a second thought. It is your armor.
We go on living out of fear—that’s why we go on poisoning
Out of fear you are not going to grow. You will only shrink and die. Fear is in the service of death. A fearless person has everything that life wants to give to you as a gift. Now there is no barrier. You will be showered with gifts, and whatever you do you will have a strength, a power, a certainty, a tremendous feeling of authority.
“Don’t send anyone to ask for whom the bell tolls, it always tolls for thee.” Whenever someone dies you are reminded again that you are a mortal being, that death can take possession of you at any moment.
rather than putting your energy into being special, put your whole energy into being yourself.
the East the fear is not so much, and the reason is that the East believes that life continues forever and ever; death is not the end; this
That’s why the East is lazy: There is no hurry!
“I will come at five o’clock sharp, and he never turns up.” He does not feel any responsibility toward time, and you are waiting and waiting, and he comes four, five hours late and he says, “What is wrong in it? So what?”
The fear is basically that you have not yet been able to live, and time is passing, and it cannot be recovered, you cannot undo it; gone—gone forever. And every day life is shrinking,
If you live, then there is no fear.
I have lived life, now death is knocking at the door; I will jump to open the door—“Come in!” Because life I have known, I would like to know you also.
Either I will survive—then there is no question of fear. Or I will not survive—then too there is no problem of fear.
The fear of death is fear of time, and the fear of time is, deeply, the fear of unlived moments, an unlived life.
So what to do? Live more, and live more intensely. Live dangerously! It is your life, don’t sacrifice it for any sort of foolishness that has been taught to you.
“Your religion is in danger—die for it!” Nonsense—it is your life, live it!
Live life, and don’t think that it is a courageous thing to die. The only courage is to live life totally, there is no other courage. Dying
You are here for yourself, for nobody else.
stops. If you have the sense of beauty, aesthetic sensibility and sensitiveness—look at a rose and time disappears, look at the moon and where is time? The clock immediately stops. The hands go on moving but time stops.
transcend time. The secret has been revealed to you many times. Life itself reveals it to you. Life would like you to enjoy. Life would like
moment life becomes more and more beautiful, more orgasmic, a peak experience, and by and by, when you become attuned to the peak, that becomes your abode.
One great Zen Master has said: When sitting sit, when walking walk, above all, don’t wobble.
If you live rightly the problem of time disappears, the fear of time disappears.
So, what to do? Each moment, whatsoever you are doing, do it totally. Simple things—taking a bath; take it totally, forget the whole world; sitting,
Fear cannot be eliminated altogether, it cannot be mastered, it can only be understood.
Anger is aggressive and fear is nonaggressive. Fear is anger in a negative state;
Fear creates energy; fear is energy, and energy cannot be destroyed. Not a single iota of energy can be eliminated from
What if you cannot make it? Fear comes. Now fear comes as a by-product of desire.
If you don’t want to possess, then there is no fear.
If you start living in the moment, fear disappears. Fear comes through desire. So basically, desire creates fear.
