Topic: What are you afraid of?

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[Michael]

that i won't be clinging to that bird when it flies

[Quantum Shaman]

Experienced an awareness a few moments ago...  I thought I would pursue it in Soma.

So the question posed is, what are your biggest fears?

I don't know if I would classify this as a "fear", but I would be extremely disappointed to discover that this whole arena of "life" is nothing but an amusement park ride which some part of me chose to take.  I realize that is a popular opinion among some new age practitioners, but to me, it would just piss me off.  *LOL*

Of course, far WORSE would be a fear that we really are nothing more than a handful of chemicals and some water. 

And yet...

We play the game as if it matters, at least for the time we are here.

[Michael]

So.. I ask Michael, since you replied...

What then is your underlying fear?

yes, that it, what i said. that's my underlying terror.

[Michael]

and it is exactly this, this realisation that 'the world' as we perceive it, dies with us, that causes some of us to throw our whole being into a penetrating and unaffected examination of what is in some traditions called 'permanency'.

Permanency lies at the heart of the moment. This is why all traditions from earliest shamanism to modern societies have had a fascination for the central pillar. But only few know what that central pillar is.

Always remember that the deeper you go the more you encounter the paradox. The furtherest journey begins with one step right now, the outside world become the inner world, the murderer becomes the judge, the beggar the king. So too we find the solution to permanency in the heart of the impermanent. We are only allowed to keep what we give away.

[TIOTIT]

I visit Soma at least once a day,sometimes twice...it's become part of
my routine usually when I'm checking my e-mails or the daily news.
like all of us here I've spent a few years inquiring into the nature
of our existence(the search for truth and all that)it's a condition that most
of humanity encounters in one way or another(the BIG questions)at some
time in their lives....each individual has a unique set of events or moments
that define the questions they will ask....generally HOW?  WHY? or WHERE?
simple questions with big explanations...which create the environment(culture)
which we find ourselves in....until quite recently built around one of the
major religions...(for the last  few thousand years any way)and all the little ones found all over the planet until most of them were snuffed out by the big ones...
all offering the the same outcomes(there is only one)with many variations on how to attain it....each believing their unique set of information and practices to be the most spiritual or evolved... So now I'll try to explain "my fear".
 Things aren't going to well for humanity life has never been easy on this planet...although right back to the garden of Eden many a Utopian fantasy would have you believe otherwise...all cultures have the "good old days"something to aspire for if we can again do the right thing to bring back paradise...a balance
between man and nature...harmony of the inner and outer realities...our great
paradox is that we have to destroy to exist....this may be cyclic (yugas,Suns) Gold to Iron it's all faith based...the point being you start with a lot and end up with little and then start again,always asking the same questions....thats how we seem to be bound to our fate...millions of perspectives...because mind
can imagine anything...and does....so with all the information I still no nothing
Even after experiences of the infinite oneness and rarefied states of perception
and insight into my own true nature I realize "this is it" there is nothing more...
why should there be?So my fear is we will never stop long enough to see
what we have / had because we can't see the forest for the trees....

[tommy2]

I'm really afraid of crazy people with guns and shit.

Most other stuff I've just learnt what I am interested in and ignore most of the rest.

i.e., I am not the one who does big chance-taking.

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