Responding to the Present Crisis

Anxiety has overtaken the human mind – ‘what will happen’, ‘how life will go on’, ‘what the future holds’ and so on.

Anxiety is real, actual and all certainties have been thrown out of gear.

We want to end the uneasiness; the apprehension of danger is creating within us. You have to learn to be comfortable with this uneasiness. When energy is freed from fighting with this uneasiness – you come on the Original ground, the fluid ground.

You experience psychological discomfort due to any unpleasant, shocking happening. Now you try to do away with this discomfort by ideas, explanations including religious-spiritual or by complaining, blaming.

Can you stop this diversion? Whole energy is here. Any action or no action is relaxed, conscious.

In such situations, one either predicts doomsday or one tries to escape the uneasiness by hopes, solaces. It is discomforting for the present mind to stop this relief seeking.

If these relief seeking ideas stop, one is one with the situation. Whole energy is here. Any action is relaxed, conscious.

But when there is immediate physical danger?

When you are in immediate physical danger, there is no time to talk, discuss, think – your whole energy is concentrated in saving yourself from danger. You come in action mode immediately.

Thinking, ‘why and how’ arises only when you are not in immediate danger, but want to end the uneasiness, apprehension of danger is creating within you.

We want to suppress our fears; we seek relief by the details of the incidents, by the awareness messages about what is happening.

We instinctively shy away from our fears and want to remain relieved, pleased.

Can you see that all fears are psychological discomforts?

You can not run away from this discomfort.

All attempts to run away from this discomfort perpetuate the discomfort, solidifies the discomforting situation.

Once you see this, whole energy is here.