Jean Louise Quino/Diabetic Products
Fear.
We
all know that it is the main culprit of stress in our lives.
The
fear of hunger gives rise to stress in finding food to eat; the fear of death
gives rise to frantic search for security; the fear of rejection disables an
individual from loving; and the fear of facing one's own soul pushes one to
inflict violence on others.
Some
say we don't fear that which we know; we only fear the unknown. However, some
may say that they know of death but still fear it. If it is so, then the
antidote to fear is knowledge. But knowledge alone is only half of it.
King Solomon said "The wise man has eyes in his head,
while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate
overtakes them both". Indeed, both the wise and the fool were given birth
naked and neither can escape the grave. The same thing is true to the well and
the sick, the rich and the poor, the buyer and the seller, and the young and
the old.
The
womb gives birth to both wise and foolish, so also the grave accepts both rich
and the poor. The sun rises to both righteous and wicked and sets also for
both. The reason why the womb fears neither the wise nor the foolish, why the
grave does not respect social status and why the sun always does
undiscriminating virtue is that they embraced both extremes as though they are
the same things to them.
When
you embrace all things, you ceased to become a foreigner to anything. Being a
part of one side makes you hostile towards the other. From such hostility comes
out all the stress and fear and lack of harmony.
There
may be atrocities and violence done on earth, still the earth is earth. There
may be kindness and peace given among the people living on earth, still the
earth is earth. The earth is neither a violent earth nor a kind earth but the
earth welcomes both violence and peace to take place in her.
One way to know
something is to make it a part of you. And most of the times we feel secure when we are
in control of things. However, when we see that things are starting to get out
of control, fear starts to take its place. Because of this fear, people start
to begin their quest for control, but we can only control that which is
inferior to us.
If the antidote to fear is the control over many things, then those who are seeking this antidote
will stress themselves out to rise up and make many entities inferior to them. But this is a vain attempt because if to them there are still inferior others, there are always others also that are more superior to them.
Even though a powerful man takes full control over a nation, he is still not in control of the universe, much less the weather. There are still many things that are beyond his control.
So overcoming all fears through making everything a part of you and being in control of all things will be in vain until you also embrace making yourself a part of everything and be yielding to all things.
No comments:
Post a Comment