The Salt Of Fear And The Ocean Of Love: A Spiritual Guide To Transforming Anxiety Into Awareness And Inner Valor |
Nature has put some amount of fear in all living beings. This fear makes life defend and protect itself by being careful. Like salt in the food, a little bit of fear is essential for people to be righteous. There is a quantitative difference between carefulness and fear. If it is less, you call it being careful; if it is too much, it amounts to fear.
When you are busy doing something meaningful, when you meditate, when you are in knowledge, fear reduces, and only carefulness remains.
Observe, when fear comes up in you, it brings along some sensation in the body. When you observe with awareness, first the emotion gets transformed into sensation, secondly the sensation gets released and the mind becomes free. This observation itself is a meditation technique. Meditation is not concentration but relaxation; and concentration is simply the byproduct of the practice. When you meditate, allow all kinds of thoughts to come and go. As you relax more and more, you reach a deeper space within. When the mind is........