Thought, Time, and Fear
Given the gradual dictatorship and authoritarian world we currently live in, denying us of freedom, feeding confusion and division through vaccines, and causing the great suffering of all human beings in the world, it is interesting to know that nothing in our history, if we truly cared about each other, has been able to change any of this illusionary reality. No organization, no religion or belief, science, or simply knowledge that we have gathered over time through various experiences has been able to change anything.
History has repeated itself over and over again and no knowledge over the thousands of years has solved the suffering we experience today. Most of us accept what is as it is and do nothing about it. We simply leave it to the next person or the next generation, or someone we call “great teacher” to come along and offer us insight into the matter. The fact is, there have been many teachers, but so little action.
If we inquire about through, time and fear, we might be able to understand a little more of this sad phenomena in which we continue to live in fear. Let us start with the concept of time. Because as long as we understand the problem of time, I don’t think we can ever be free of fear.
What is it? Everything we do is based on time. Our plans and our thinking revolves around time. Whether we remember something from the past - a happy memory, or perhaps a not so happy one. Knowledge accumulated from the past, brought into the now or the present, and then constructing a future based on the past which is shaped by our conditioning, could we call this time? The fact that the past is embedded in the present, that forms the future makes the past, present and future, all one and the same thing.
There is the the part of time which is chronological time, such as yesterday, today and tomorrow based on a calendar and a clock. If you need to organize dinner at a certain time, or plan what time you need to be at work tomorrow, or how long it will take you to get from A to B, that is time. Then there is psychological time: the time that exists in our mind. This time is also implying movement. We want to become something, or we have a desire to be someone, we may have a goal, or a “why”. This too is a movement from what is currently, to what should be later. So affirmations, or desiring to be something different, and making a habit to become that difference is based on desire, and this movement is the movement of thought. Thought is always operating in the realm of time. They are not two separate movements. And thus they are both living at the root of fear.
So the question we may need to ask then, is why does thought create fear? Let’s suppose one is afraid of taking the vaccine, or you want to take the vaccine because you are afraid of something. Lets be more precise, what exactly is the fear we are talking about here?
Fear is fear. It’s the same problem. Small fear, large fear, the reason behind fear. It’s more important to question what is fear itself. In doing so, would you be willing to question it to the point where fear dissolves? What is the medium on which fear thrives?
Love and light,
GC