What Is Fear?
In a previous post, I talked about the ego vs the self. How the ego was responsible for sins, and judgements. It is also responsible for fear and evil. Have you ever stopped and asked yourself, what is fear? Go back in your memories and look at the times when you were afraid. Were you afraid because you were judging something? Or were you afraid because you couldn’t judge something? For example, take bungee jumping. Most people are afraid to do it, most won’t in their lifetime. Because they are giving into the fear that something bad might happen to them. They are judging it, before they have even tried it. Because the ego is telling you to be afraid. If you ask anyone that has gone bungee jumping, they will tell you it was amazing, and glad they defeated their fears about it. This fear is no different when it comes to many life experiences. Take a first date, the fear of rejection, the fear of a good first impression, the fear of making the first move and so on…When you learn to defeat your fear, by not giving into it, you get peace of mind about all of those things. It’s either a yes or a no. If yes, it was worth defeating your fears. If no, it was worth defeating your fears, because you no longer stress and ask the question: What if? Which also disables the possibility of regret.
Most people allow fear to run their lives. They fall into a routine life and rarely stray out of it. I know I am guilty of this. I know of several other people that are as well. But the ones that aren’t, have incredible lives, always happy, always doing something exciting, always having fun, no matter where they go, because they don’t let fear run their lives. This is because, fear is nothing but an illusion. It only exists, because you allow it to. Fear becomes non-existent when you defeat it. The same goes for experiences in life. Take horseback riding for example, someone may get on a horse and be knocked off, creating a fear of horseback riding. However, theres hundreds of others that never get knocked off and love every minute of it. So to the one person that fell off, it wasn’t evil, and it wasn’t fear that caused them to be knocked off the horse, it was simply, an accident. If they get back up on that horse, they would find that it is a good experience again. But some people would live in fear for the rest of their lives. You can take this scenario and put it in place in several different experiences, and the end result is the same. Fear is only what you make it out to be, nothing more, you create it, simply by judging with your ego.
Another good example about fear, is the performer. I’m sure everyone reading this can relate to the fact that when no one is watching, they tend to do things better than when someone is watching. Be it making a craft, singing a song, acting in a play, doing a dance and so on. Well when it comes time to go out on stage, often someone is afraid they will screw up and make a fool of themselves. They forget entirely that they did it perfectly when they were alone. They should be able to go out on the stage, and pretend no one is watching. Perform like no one is watching, and do it perfectly. To the average person, most of us wouldn’t even go out on the stage due to this fear. Or go out on stage and make a fool of themselves, or do a nervous performance. To the person that has learned to defeat their fears, they go out on the stage and give the audience the performance of a lifetime. They don’t let their ego judge the audience, thinking the audience is judging them. That is the difference. That is the illusion of fear.
Now that we have already established what sin is, and what fear is, what about evil? Evil is literally, a combination of the two. It is entirely an illusion, of both sin and fear. Greed is often the main source, when you look around the world at all the destruction, and all the peoples lives ruined by greed, the things people will do to another human being for a paycheck is retarded. To the victims, they fear these people, because they are the victims of the sins that are being done to them. So they are pecieved as evil people. Evil starts wars, creates poverty, destroys environments, and makes lives miserable. There are victims of every crime imaginable due to evil. But its only an illusion. It’s not real, only the consequences are real. And the consequences, come from the ego judging what is fear, what is sin, and what is evil. Do you see the illusion? Ego creates it for the perpetrator, whom is only acting on judgement of the ego. Ego also creates it for the victim, whom is only acting on the judgement of the ego. So when we can learn to defeat fear, there is no perpetrator, and there is no victim. Fear and Evil, would then cease to exist. All that would be left, is the loving goodness, and oneness, of the universe. We are all one. We are all connected. It’s just a matter of realizing this.
So now you’re probably thinking, what about the instinct of fear? This is actually not fear. When you have a genuine intuitive instinct that something might be wrong, or that danger is nearby, much like many animals do, it is not fear that causes this. It is intuition, it comes from the self. When you genuinely feel something is wrong, you’re not afraid so much as you are, knowing. So when you’re in a dangerous situation, it is instinct, not judgement sending you a message. This is to be trusted. However this only occurs rarely, and when it does, you clearly know the difference between fear and instinct.