Living in a world of fear.

 Everything goes in cycles, so nothing lasts. We are living in an age called the ‘The Age of Strife’ ,The Kali Yuga – The Iron Age. There was a Golden age, a Silver age, and a Bronze age, and we’re probably at the bottom of the Iron age, so don’t expect things to run smoothly! This process will move in reverse, back to a Golden age at some time.

The world in which we live is full of self serving deceit: war engineering, financial engineering, social engineering, health engineering, law engineering, education engineering, surveillance, control engineering… they use naturally occurring situations to control the world. And, remember those who instigate these deceits will also fall victim to them. It’s strange they do not see this!

Fear is expectations about the future, and so fear is in the mind. Of course, there are situations in the present moment that have to be dealt with, and we can either do something about these, or we can’t.

The problem is fear-mongers: those who keep up the hype, which creates tension and therefore more strife. There are two aspects to this; intentional and unintentional.

There are those who know the inclinations of sentient beings, and the ways in which we are governed by our hopes, fears and indifferences – the three poisons. They use these traits intentionally order to control us, feeding a little information here or there, and the virus spreads like wild fire. And so, the unintentional jump on the ‘bandwagon’ and actually make things worse, believing and disbelieving anything that comes along. They are confused and easily swayed to create more fear. The unintentional work for the intentional!

Fear is fear of ourselves – “I don’t think I can deal with that.” Fear, hope and ignorance are the natural survival instinct of our primitive (reptilian) brain. But we are not that brain.

This is why spiritual transcendent knowledge is so important. Fear is not our true nature – fearlessness is! Spirituality is not about appearing to be meek and mild: it’s about taming our minds, causing no harm, and benefitting others.

So what can we do?

We can become informed about the practical things that are happening in order to be aware of subtle changes that could create reactions in us. We are then in a position to inform others in an intelligently manner. They may not want to believe us now, but there will come a time when the dots will join up for them. It is the same with the process of understanding spiritual knowledge! Everyone learns in their own good time – nothing is a do-or-die situation.

Know your own mind, and tame it (through meditation on clear view)  so that others cannot control it for you.

Remember fear is a perception in the mind.

Pure perception is that which is aware of all this – our Empty Essence.