You cannot get rid of fear, because you are the fear! There is no separation between you and the fear when it is present. Fear moves; that is what fear does. You want to get rid of fear just because there is pain involved. So, you ideologically dissociate yourself from that pain since, actually, you are not separate from it. You are the pain of fear when fear is present. That is why analysis does not help. Analysis only camouflages it. It does not give definitive help. It only gives a palliative help, once the analyzed thing and the analyst are not separate.
Notice how this is quite interesting, quite important to see.
When you want to get rid of pain, you are the pain. There is no way of getting rid of it! This is the very own pain in discomfort moving reactively. When fear is present, the discomfort of fear is the fear itself. Who is trying to get rid of this discomfort if not fear itself?
So, this is reactivity, it does not work. Fear is fear and it will never stop being fear. Pain is pain and it will never stop being a pain. Do not think that it is you with the pain, that it is you with the fear – you are the fear, you are the pain.
Some days ago, I was asked on Paltalk: "Is 'me' the fear?" It seems that someone had this insight, this glimpse. I replied: "The 'I' is not only fear but also suffering, anguish, sadness, joy, frustration, desire…" You do not separate them, since there is no separation.
So, here the first point is: if you want to get rid of fear, fear is that desire, and that is you; then, it is not going to work out. There comes the question: "How to get rid of fear?" Forget about getting rid of fear! And there comes another question: "What do I do with fear?" Nothing, as it would be fear itself making the action.
The one who analyzes is the one who is being analyzed: there is no separation. So, the therapist is no real help, since the therapist also needs to abandon the illusion that someone can be helped. That is why therapists look for therapists to treat themselves, once they are never fine. The "I" is never fine, even the "I" specialized in treating the "I." The mind is never fine, even the mind that knows how the mind works.
I have never said it, but I am going to say it for the first time: ego has no cure, the mind is a hopeless case, and that's it. Ego's nature is fear. Mind's nature is fear. It is not only fear but also desires, conflict, reactivity, search, escape, misery. That is what I have been saying "misery" all these years and some of you have not understood. I say that human life, without the awareness of what is the Truth of this "human being," is misery.
Everyone who is suffering some situation, listen carefully: you will not get rid of it! This is bad news, I know, but the good news is that you do not have to get rid of this for it to disappear! This is available to disappear, continually available to disappear without effort. So, that is where the good news comes in: suffering is not real; it does not have to be present there.
See what I said: you do not have to get rid of it since this is not real! So, I broke the bad news and now I am breaking the good ones. The bad news is: you will not get rid of suffering. Every move you make to get rid of suffering will make it stronger.
Here is the key: surrender! Since you are not separate from fear, since you are not separate from suffering, there is only this surrender, as any other movement is resistance. All that is needed is surrender, surrender to the truth. Is the truth fear? So, surrender. Is the truth the pain? So, surrender. Is the truth boredom, is it loneliness, anger? So, surrender. Resistance is based on the assumption that all this can be overcome, but this resistance is the strengthening of ego-identity, of this fear, of this suffering, of this anger, of this pain.
Where is the ego living? In this attempt to do something. You cannot do something. You can stay with it, that's all. This is surrender to the Truth! You surrender, you do not resist, and you stop formulating internally something different from what is happening. What is happening to you right now concerning work, relationships, body health, financial, physical, or psychological problems, in this idea of the "I," of the mind, in this thought process? What is happening? Is there discomfort? That is your challenge, for that is where your "me" is alive, where your ego shows to still be alive. So, you have a test, a training ahead of you. This is the time you have to abandon the ego.
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