by OM C. Parkin
Fear is the scourge of humanity. Fear of everything and everybody, fear of me, fear of you, fear of losing, fear of failing, fear of making mistakes, fear of dying, and the list goes on. What does this mean? We are actually afraid of what we recognize as separate.
Everything that we no longer see as ourselves instigates fear.
Our resistance to really touch fear owes to thousands of years of survival conditioning. Historically, fear always leads into death, and as long as we run from fear we run from death. However, so long we do so the secret of life will remain hidden from us.
We cannot overcome what we don’t really know. If you are like most people, you don’t know what fear is. You only know your ideas of fear, the fear of fear. And this fear of fear has you firmly under control. It inhibits you, stops you, limits you, narrows you and persuades you to live a life that is a succession of distractions that appear to be the effects of fear. In reality, however, these are not the effects of fear, but the effects of your attitude towards fear.
Fear is disagreeable. I truly have never heard of somebody having a conscious preference for fear. But it is not fear, as little as any other force in you, which is the true problem. It is your relationship with fear, your attitude towards fear. When you find out that you keep fear at a distance through your attitude towards it, then this is the first step to overcoming it. The second step is to give up this distance.
Realization always happens the moment you give up the distance created solely by thought.
And then what you have artificially kept at a distance, through likes or dislikes, comes very, very close to you. So close that one can’t even have a relationship with it at all. This is important because if you CAN have a relationship with fear, you can’t recognize it or experience FREEDOM.
It’s time to give up your attitude of distance towards fear. Then, when fear comes very, very close to you let yourself fall into naked fear. This naked fear is liberated from all the dust whirled up by frightening imaginations, survival concepts and other ideas. Then you meet the core of fear. And then fear is exactly where you are. And when you are exactly where fear is, you will feel hot. Naked fear heats what has become cold in you, so that it can burn away.
Feel the fear. This is the path. Instead of distancing yourself from it, be with the fear itself.
Then you will not be afraid any more. You become fear, and then there is no fear any more. Just energy. Pure life energy.
OM C. Parkin is an advaita-teacher of eternal wisdom based. As a mystic, he helps people to experience inner stillness and when one is in a dialogue with him he opens up the space of the absolute SELF (darshan). As a spiritual teacher, he accompanies people of all confessions along their spiritual path, and as a teacher of eternal philosophy he lectures on all facets of human nature throughout Europe. Parkin‘s spiritual teaching reaches beyond denominational differences. For more information visit www.om-c-parkin.de and www.borntobe.de.