Today I am struck by how people are so afraid of themselves. Everywhere I go I see people afraid. At first they seem afraid of me if they know anything about me, and sometimes even if they do not know anything about me.
I see this as a “problem” within society but here in lies the rub; maybe this ‘problem’ is only in MY mind. When I speak about this ‘problem’ with other people they only run from the discussion, so I speak about it more saying that people’s running from discussions is a symptom of the ‘problem’. The more I speak about it the more people seem to be afraid of me.
On the other hand, I recognize that I have had this same ‘problem’ myself and I found a solution to that problem: meditation or practicing relaxing around words, thoughts and ideas. I have found that what I make important I create tension around, so to relax I let go of making anything important. In order to share my insights with people I have to make them important, which creates tension or fear.
This is all a vicious cycle or a Catch-22 type situation.
I suppose that I just have to play with the dilemma; talk about it and then let it go.
I understand this truly. I feel the same. I speak of words as yesterday even, being the source of suffering as well. I got into a long debate with a roommate about freedom of speech, freedom of religion etc you know our freedoms. Anyways, it seems to me that we look for the form rather than the essence. The essence of religion brings peace, faith, belief, but the true essence is contemplation. It is universal & makes up every religion & really every human too. So there you go my idea of the universe as of the now.
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