The Culture of Fear

[Guest guest]

We are living or rather brought up in the culture of fear. Our mind

carefully constructed with elements of fear from young. All these

stories about life after death in my opinion are trying to invoke

this fear factor, to make us do something accordingly. Unless we are

able to acknowledge and reconcile this fear factor, accepting the

fact that it has becomes so much part of us. We do everything out of

fear. We are so afraid of our own fear sometimes that it deadens our

hearts and mind. We create our own walls with familiar thoughts so

that nothing can touch us. It's like hiding in our personal caves

and jungles. Not allowing any light from entering, not until we have

this longing for openness, yearning for something other than our own

thoughts, no light will penetrate within us "

 

The fear factor.

We have this fear because our mind is never free from the experience

of the past. Our actions and everything else is the byproduct of our

experience. It's this past experience that creates this

conditioning. So my question is can we remove our mind from this

conditioning? "

 

" Let say if our mind is like a vessel containing all the

experiences, recondition means to remove and empty all the content

until there is none only then we are able to experience the purity

of the new experience, because like collecting milk in the vessel as

long as there's left over or stale milk in the vessel, if you do not

empty them, it will pollute the fresh milk. The new milk can never

remain fresh or pure. Can it be done? "

 

Note: This shall be my last message for year 2007. For those who

have known me personally and have met me/ come to my house….. Just

to let you all know that I've moved out to another place. Location?

I would like it to remain as this… somewhere out there in KL. .

 

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the members here…

an Advance Happy New Year

[Guest guest]

It is sad, but true.

 

Many of us have been brought up in a society where they teach to fear. Fear

means control for those who are intentionally invoking it.

 

However, it cannot last forever, as fear does not equate to respect.

 

You can teach a rabid dog to fear you, but it will attack once you turn away

from it. This is an example that in the end, it is best to rule and walk with

compassion. It might or might not mean more physical power, but in the end, the

sense of connectedness, sense of non-attachment (as in attachment to all, not

the apathy people see it as), will grow from such.

 

Your posts have always provoked me to think deeply about both spiritual as well

as psychological matters, Nora. I pray that you will be able to be with us

again soon.

 

Jai Ma!

 

 

Sincerely,

Christina

 

---- NMadasamy <nmadasamy wrote:

> We are living or rather brought up in the culture of fear. Our mind

> carefully constructed with elements of fear from young. All these

> stories about life after death in my opinion are trying to invoke

> this fear factor, to make us do something accordingly. Unless we are

> able to acknowledge and reconcile this fear factor, accepting the

> fact that it has becomes so much part of us. We do everything out of