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Rated: ASR · Book · Cultural · #2015972
I have tried to summarize my observation with vivid and simple manner.
#878968 added April 9, 2016 at 11:42pm
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The First and Last Freedom
Fear comes into being when I desire to be in a particular pattern.
To live without fear means to live without a particular pattern.
When I demand a particular way of living, that in itself is a source of fear.
My difficulty is my desire to live in a certain frame.
Can I not break the frame?
I can do so only when I see the truth:
that the frame is causing fear and that this fear is strengthening the frame.
If I say I must break the frame because I want to be free of fear,
then I am merely following another pattern which will cause further fear.
Any action on my part based on the desire to break the frame
will only create another pattern, and therefore fear.
How am I to break the frame without causing fear,
that is without any conscious or unconscious action on my part with regard to it?
This means that I must not act,
I must make no movement to break the frame.

What happens to me when I am simply looking at the frame
without doing anything about it?
I see that the mind itself is the frame,
the pattern; it lives in the habitual pattern which it has created for itself.
Therefore, the mind itself is fear.
Whatever the mind does goes towards strengthening
an old pattern or furthering a new one.
This means that whatever the mind does to get rid of fear causes fear.

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