On 15 Mar 2014, at 18:48, Chris de Morsella wrote:
You know I love the french (a bit cynical) poem:
'man had the good,
but he sought the best,
he found the bad,
and kept it,
by fear of the worst.'
Kind regards,
Bruno
Nice... I mean bad :)
Fear becomes, within the hidden unexamined recesses of mind, a self-
driving
psychological mechanism, where our fear of something becomes the
thing we
fear and begins to take over more and more of the mind -- if not
faced that
is.
Facing one's own primal visceral fears is the very hardest thing for a
person to ever do -- IMO -- the mind will try any trick and throw up
its
best rationalizations why the fear should remain buried within and
not be
faced. To face one's fears is a painful terrifying process, but is
also the
only means of escaping the fate of being driven by them.
A mind can never awaken as long as it remains primarily driven by its
unconscious (preconscious maybe is a better word) zombie processes.
Often,
even just recognizing that these exist within us is the hardest
part. Once
recognized, for being what they are, at least the mind becomes aware
of them
and can begin to act upon that awareness and in a more self-aware
manner.
Fears can be natural, and usually protect us. It can also become
pathological and obsessive, or (and that is often the case) exploited
by unscrupulous people, like fear of drugs, fear on terror, or the
quasi traditional fear of hells, that humans imitates easily in jails
and camps, during war or peace.
Not entirely sure "self-awareness" is always working in this setting,
although it could in many cases, but it can also lead to obsession,
and sometimes the inverse of self-awareness can help, like in zen
technic to forget yourself when acting, notably on a battle field. It
is complicated.
Bruno
Chris
Kim
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