Peace and Fear

Is it possible to move through life, to live each moment in complete peace no matter the circumstance? Can you live life simply, without the need for all the accumulated junk that turns one into a zombie of commercial enterprise. Look around you and realize that all the "stuff" you have is really just accumulated "feel good" emptiness. It has no real meaning, its just a product of the mind that is seeking to find definition outside its self. We have glorified greed to the point that it seems it is all we live for. How is it that we convince ourselves that we "need" to have something, whether it is psychological or material? What is at work in the mind that strives to own, to have? We all know that the ego/self wants to be fed, to have an identity that makes us feel secure. But is there something else at work that is the underlying cause for all this greed? Surely it is fear. The fear of not being in some form. Understanding fear, not in relationship to something, but fear its self as the understanding of all of life's problems. There are not kinds of fear there is only fear. When we think of fear it is normally associated with some memory or a projection of what may happen in the future. We feel compelled to act on our fears, to try and prevent some perceived future undesirable event. A person of intelligence has to do things that maintain the organism, ones health is important. But it is realization in the moment that prompts action not the worry of future problems. The truth of ones condition is in this moment not in the future. Action that is not coupled with fear is the truth and reality of the moment. If fear is our primary motivation then we tend to avoid the moment and become obsessed with the minds projection of the consequences of a our fear. So we essentially do nothing or we escape into some activity that helps us avoid our self created images of fear. If one is always avoiding fear and its perceived consequences then in reality a person is escaping the truth of the moment. In the absolute moment their can be no fear, only action, because one understands the conditioned self and its propensity to want to escape through the illusion of fear. If a person can be free of all the things that limit, that are our fears, then perhaps a new and different understanding of life will emerge. An understanding that frees a person from all the psychological baggage of the past, the past which is the storehouse of fear. If a person wants to understand the true nature of fear, then one has to realize that fear does not exist by its self. Fear can exist only in relationship to something imagined, some perceived threat. So if one can look directly at fear without a defining relationship, then does it exist? A person may then have the realization that all fear is the result of a mind that is attached to self illusion. All fear is self created and does not exist except in ones conditioned consciousness. It is a fact that you can realize only in the moment, when you are not escaping. When not escaping a person may realize vulnerability that is the acceptance of what is, the allowing of the true self, which is without the conditioning of fear and its end product, violence.

To live a life of peace one must realize freedom. Freedom that is the outcome of understanding. A person must see into the depths of ones own psyche and realize the extent to which one is conditioned by ones beliefs. Awareness in the moment that is not the result of a desire to emulate or to become is the impetus for the dissipation of all attachment. Wisdom starts with acceptance. It creates a capacity in the mind that allows an intelligence to flower that transcends the experiential. When a person accepts the truth of the moment then all fear dissipates and it is possible for one to realize peace that is not a result of some ideal.