What we fear the most also always causes our suffering. The
simplest way to overcome fear is to allow it to possess you. Don’t hate it.
Don’t run away from it. Just let it take over. When fear takes control, your
physical being will be impacted, possibly your mind too will be affected, but
your inner core, your soul will be unmoved, undisturbed. Through the awareness
of this state, through realizing that your soul is impregnable, that nothing can
affect the real ‘you’, you will transcend fear. You will find joy!
We all fear different things. At different times. From people to
events to thoughts to memories to outcomes to conversations __ we fear a lot.
We work overtime to avoid fear. And the more we avoid it, the more we are
tormented by it. Instead overpower your worst fears by facing up to them.
For example, it is possible that you have been avoiding a
difficult conversation because you know that nasty sentiments will be expressed
and you don’t want it. As long as you don’t have that conversation and keep
avoiding it, it will keep dominating your thinking. The fear will chew you up.
Instead let the conversation happen. Allow yourself to be in total fear when
the conversation happens. No problem. But through that fear you will actually
discover that you have transcended it. That you have had the strength to face
it, overcome and overpower it. It is almost magical. Possibly, your situation
may be even more grave. One that may involve a physical conflict perhaps. Or
one of dealing with a dominating opponent. Maybe you fear losing your job or
even your Life. Again, interestingly, the same logic applies. Be fearful. But
don’t run. Turn and face whoever, whatever is the source of your fear. Look the
fear-causing source in the eye. And watch how your fear slowly leads you to an
awareness, to an awakening that makes you connect with your inner core, your
true Self.
Osho, the Master, describes this the best: “Only one thing is to be understood: when you
allow fear and you tremble — watch it, enjoy it; and in that
watching you will transcend it, you will see the body is trembling, you will
see the mind is trembling, but you will come to feel a point within you, a deep
center, which remains unaffected. The storm passes by, but somewhere deep
within you is a center which is untouched: the center of the cyclone.”
Living in fear and suffering is
meaningless. We have to learn to take the bull by the horns. The only thing
that can erase fear is the act of facing up to it. Fear is a good chaser. It likes
to gnaw at your heels but can never look you in the eye. So, face your fears
today. And watch your suffering fade away. Facing fear may not end the pain.
But it will surely spare you the suffering!
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