Everything is uncertain anyway
There is a contrast to want to be perfectly safe in a universe of which is the nature of nature momentariness and fluidity. Wisdom is the direct understanding of the fluidity of life. But the contradiction is a bit deeper than the mere conflict between the desire for safety and the fact of change.
If I want to be safe, that is, protected against the flux of life, I want to be separated from life. Yet it is this very sense of separation that makes me feel insecure. To be safe to isolate and strengthen the ‘I’, but it is just the feeling to be an isolated ‘me’, making me feel lonely and scared.
In other words, the more security I can get, the more I want. To say it even more clearly: the desire for safety and the feeling of uncertainty are the same.
Keeping your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the search for security is nothing but a breathing match in which everyone is as tight as a drum and as purple as a beet.
The meaning of life is just life. It is so clear and so obvious and so simple. And yet everyone runs around in a big panic as if it would be necessary to achieve something outside of themselves.
But you can’t understand life and his mysteries, as long as you try to understand. Indeed, you can’t understand, just like you can’t walk away with a river in a bucket. If you try to catch running water in a bucket, it is clear that you do not understand and that you will always be disappointed, because the water does not run in the bucket. To ‘have’ running water, you have to let go and let it run.
I can only seriously think of trying to tackle an ideal, improve myself if I am split into two pieces. There must be a good “I” who will improve the bad “I”. ‘Me’, who has the best of intentions, will work on Wayward ‘Me’, and the struggle between the two will highly emphasize the difference between them. Consequently, “I” will feel more separate than ever, and therefore only increase the lonely and cut feelings that “I” behave so badly.
Face -TOFACE standing with insecurity it is still incomprehensible. To understand, you should not face it, but albeit.
The real reason why human life can be so completely annoyed and frustrating is not because there are facts that are called death, pain, fear or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, Buzz, Writhe and swirls, try to get the “I” out of experience. We pretend we are Amoebas and try to protect ourselves against life by splitting into two.
Health, whole and integration are in the realization that we are not divided, that people and his current experience are one, and that no separate “me” or spirit can be found. Just like understanding music, you have to listen to it. But as long as you think: “I listen to this music,” you don’t listen.
We have made a problem for ourselves by confusing the understandable with the fixed. We think that the understanding of life is impossible, unless the flow of events can somehow be mounted in a framework of rigid forms. To be useful, life must be understandable in terms of fixed ideas and laws, and these must in turn match unchanging and eternal realities behind the changing scene. But if this means “out of life”, we have set ourselves the impossible task to make fixity of Flux.
The only way to understand change is to dive, move with it and become a member of the dance.
Try this guided meditation about the wisdom of uncertainty
From day 13 of The 21-Days Meditation