It can be shattered by love, it can be shattered by meeting a Master, it can be shattered by a great disease, it can be shattered by seeing someone die. But because this feeling of ‘I amness’ is false, it creates fear anything can destroy it, any deep encounter can shatter it.
Go on looking out.” At least it keeps you befooled, it keeps the illusion intact that ‘I am’. It is not intellectual, it is existential, it is in your very guts, the feel that “I may not be. You go on pretending that you are you know that if you look in you are not. And because you are suspicious – and your suspicion is very valid – you don’t look in. There is only one fear it manifests in many ways, a thousand and one can be the manifestations, but basically fear is one, and that is that “Deep inside, I may not be.” And in a way it is true that you are not. You ask me, “ What is fear made of?” Fear is made of ignorance of one’s own self. Meanwhile the effect of the non-substantial dream will continue. Now you know that it was just a nightmare, a dream, non-substantial, but even this knowing will take time to penetrate to the very core of your being. Your breathing has changed, you are perspiring, your body is still trembling, you are hot. The fear is like a dream, a nightmare, but after a nightmare when you are awake the after-effects still persist, the hangover persists. The shaking of the foundations is very real, remember. People are more afraid of fear than of anything else, because the very existence of fear shakes your foundations. You can run away from a rope thinking that it is a snake if you come back and you look closely and you observe, you will laugh at the whole stupidity of it.īut people are afraid to come to places where fear exists. Your running will be real, your escaping will be real, but the cause will be non-substantial. In a lonely place, on a lonely path, you can start running because of your own shadow. In a jungle when the night is approaching you can be frightened of your own shadow. The shadow also exists – non-substantial, negative, but not non-existential – and sometimes the shadow can have a great impact on you.
If it is non-substantial, how does it manage to have such a power over me?Īnand Hamid, Fear is as non-substantial as your shadow, but it is. Osho, What is fear made of? It is always there behind a corner, but when I turn to face it, it is only a shadow. “This false ego which you have created by not looking in, by continuously looking out, is the root cause of fear,” states Osho.
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