Fear

• Nothing will get done anymore

• I will be bypassing crucial work on myself

• I will be a social outcast, no longer able to hold a job or support my family

• I’m not clever, special, or selfless enough to see this

• My “evil” tendencies will have free reign, it will all go horribly wrong

• I will become some maniacal weirdo, losing all interest in care for the bodymind

These fears are basic cultural programming; it seems to be how human society functions.

These fears are what the separate self is: unquestioned, culturally conditioned thought patterns on endless repeat.

These patterns are how any real looking beyond themselves remains effectively blocked, even while we believe we are looking!

They are what cause us to stay in our self-constructed cage of separation, even though the cage has no door.

This is how the belief in the “me” (and the imperative to understand, work on, and improve myself) continues to survive, even while learning about and understanding “nonduality.”

All I can say is that you’d not be an effective, healthy, social human if you didn’t have these fears programmed into you.

But it’s worth it all to ignore them as best you can, and inquire into this so-called self, and into what we truly are instead.

May that happen for “you.”