Creating Fear

We were having a discussion about the psychological implications of the minds need for attachment to an ideal. One person asked, "How is it possible to realize something life changing if you are without a guide or a direction in which to proceed?" This is the problem to realize without seeking to realize. The mind always looks through its conditioning. It is not possible to have an unconditioned thought. It is only possible to realize the minds movement as such and in the moment transcend its effects. It is an awareness that realizes thoughts movement as a fear based motivational process. Because fear is so subtle and interwoven in our thought process we do not realize just how much we are controlled by it. In point of fact the mind creates fear as a primary link to perceived reality. It is difficult to see this clearly. This is because the mind is constantly interpreting, concluding and reacting as a result of the duality of a self that knows. To see that the known is the result of fear is an insight that escapes many.

Is it possible to act without fear, to transcend fear? Since the mind can only "know" fear as it relates to a conceptual event that may happen, it cannot see that in the absolute moment their is in fact only the unknown, which is totally without fear. Fear is the "possibility" of something imagined, not the reality of it. Fear is essentially thoughts movement from past to future in the form of an anticipated and projected event that one has deemed undesirable. Their is no fear except that one creates it as a projection of the self that "knows". Most people cannot imagine a life without fear because they are caught in the illusion of self. A self that is deterministic. A self that wants to control and subject its self to minds desire for definition, identification, acquisition and attachment.

Your life will change, it will transform, when you have realized the true self, as understanding that is grounded in the truth of the absolute moment. Understanding that comes from an awareness that is both choiceless and timeless. Awareness that is without the self that is constantly comparing and measuring. A self that is obsessed with result. The seeking of a result is a fear based reaction to ones desire to live in the known. To live in the unknown is to live without fear.