Fear

Question: Sometimes I get so weary, so afraid that I feel like just running away and curling up. And I don’t want to be so afraid.

Hanuman: What about just allowing the fear to be, without demanding that it go? What about allowing a simple spaciousness where fear can display? And what about the possibility of just taking a few steps back and seeing fear for what it is: sensations of the body and thoughts?

What about the possibility, now, sitting on this throne of Witness Consciousness, of seeing fear as sensations, feelings, thoughts? Seeing for just a moment that: ‘I am the very Consciousness itself in which this fear now is displaying’? Seeing that there isn’t a frightened one, seeing this in a very impersonal way, seeing that there is a story attached to the fear, a story that one identifies with as being about me, the frightened one, the one who wants to run and curl up?

What about the possibility of seeing the fictional nature of the one that story is about? What about the possibility of seeing fear now as a beautiful, graceful pointer back to your true nature? What about the possibility of embracing fear with gratitude for being such a graceful pointer?

See this, simply, clearly, now. In this way, my Master’s teaching is very practical. You use whatever appears on your plate in behalf of your own liberation.