Now we have learned two facts that to learn there must be curiosity and there must not be pressure from the past. You must learn about fear and yourself. Running away only increases mental fear. That's a fact. Don't run away, because when you run away what happens? Your obsess on escaping from it. So what now? If you want to get rid of it, you must face it. You must accept it. Knowing that you cannot face free brings us to the conclusion of acceptance. You can't escape from it and you can't avoid it. It will always still be there. This only strengthens fear, so by becoming aware of it, means you are watching it from a distance and monitoring it. Monitoring is learning, resistance is gone, along with it's grip. When you are watching fear, you realize now you are away from it. Fear and love cannot coincide together.
Freedom earlier expressed is a form of a relaxed state of mind. The beauty of freedom is that you do not leave a mark. Children at play have no worry or concern, their minds are happy and clear. They are not condition or molded to the twisted conditioning of an fully developed adult. Unless we see this very clearly we cannot go any further. We must imitate and learn from experience and instruction.
Thought is responsible for fear and thought is responsible for pleasure. Keeping your mind and your thoughts positive serves to be a sure fire solution for peace. Obviously you are discovering for yourself the way in which you think and feel. For instance, consider pleasure, the movement of pleasure is that you are very conscious of it, you can't escape from it. You wish to remain with it always. In considering fear we consider pleasure to alleviate the symptoms of fear. You have manifested the symptoms of fear, so now we must tackle once again the seed and root of fear. Let's dilute and dissolve fear effortlessly together, investigated and study it.
Fear has been with humanity since the beginning of time. But, no one has actually and factually solved this complex burden. To solve it we must surrender to what is. What is the different between surrendering to fear and accepting it? There's a big difference, surrendering to fear implies that you already know the personal effects of fear but this is not surrendering. If you know fear you can surrender to its causes . Fighting it and resisting it only strengthens it. This is intelligence, simplicity is a form of acceptance, it implies seeing very clearly and putting attention on simple thoughts and gentle reactions. Staying in the middle not picking or choosing but remaining mentally neutral.
We complicate things by assuming, speculating and becoming stifled by trivial superficial thoughts. It is essential and imperative in this day and age to keep your minds thoughts still and tranquil. We put way to much emphasis over worry and minor conflicts. When it's not even necessary. You say your mind is agitated and how can I keep it quite. The mind is quite when it sees the truth that understanding comes only when it is peaceful. When all preconceive notions, prejudices and bias thinking have been put away and forgotten. Only then will the mind be free and understand true peace. Quietness of mind and tranquility of mind are not things to be produced by will power or by any action of desire, it is achieved by pliability and free flowing, undisturbed, uncensored thought. It's like a pond that becomes quite when the winds stops. The wind, your obsessive thoughts, the pond, your mind. If our minds are agitated by problems of the day, then it creates a world wind of chaotic thoughts, thus producing rigid physical action.
We mentioned previously the concept of love, we are going to discover what love is. You can know love only when your mind is peaceful and all mental chatter has ceased. When you are respectful, merciful, compassionate, when you have consideration for all life even people of underprivileged circumstances then you can know love. The practice of love and the practice of brotherhood is still within the field of rigid forceful thought. Love cannot be force. Society is you and you are society, you are human and society is human. To accept society is to accept yourself with all the many flaws you contain. You love yourself, therefore you accept, nourish and care for yourself. If anger is cultivated within then anger shall be projected upon society and relationships.
You are a mirror to society what you give and display is what will be transmitted back to you. Universally the opposite of fear is love. We lived but so many of us seem to have no meaning or purpose in life. No passion, no direction but the meaning of life is just to live. Don't complicate it, don't hyper analyze and most importantly keep it all simple. The measure of the morale worth of a man is his happiness, the better the man the more happiness. In order to achieve happiness one must acquire knowledge. Knowledge creates desire for the beautiful things in life including beauty of mind.
To grow is to discover we need to get involve with all things good. There is a special need for understanding, growth, learning and discoveries everyday. These are life's instruments and tools to enjoy living. Acceptance of all life individual behavior and acceptance of self is the means to unlimited potential, quantity and quality of life. We can no longer give blind devotion to the uselessness of our misguided thinking. The greatest help in life is self help, individually and diligently. We can only change society when we change ourselves primarily and internally. When happiness resides within you, outward actions will disclose themselves virtuously.
