Dharma Daze #2
What is fear but clinging to the illusion of safety?
What is fear but clinging to the illusion of safety? A misguided attempt to control the uncontrollable rhythms of life. An attempt to hijack the performance of music meant to be danced to.
Instead of letting these rhythms move us, become part of us, become vibrations we groove to, we act as if the instructor, conductor must be playing the wrong notes. We tell them they’re playing the wrong notes, yet never in our wildest dreams could we understand the awesomeness of the universe's instruments. one of humanity’s most profound follies is attempting to make these wonderful rhythms conform to the pitiful desire for control that is man made logic.
we are not even a toddler banging at the keys of a grand piano. We are not even a pig attempting to strum the strings of a harp with hooves. The inanity of our criticism of music beyond our grasp, beyond the depth of our understanding, must be man’s greatest mistake.
We do not appreciate life’s rhythms. Appreciation would take us much further than struggling to fit such profound music into a box of our liking. Appreciation is a type of understanding more powerful than the cold logic this society deploys. We ruin the notes by rearranging them, we succumb to fear of the unknown, the uncontrollable, refusing to accept our powerlessness in the face of life.
We obsess over control. Of our environment, the people around us, of ourselves, but safety is only an illusion. Fear is only an empty wish for control that we will never have. Frankly, that we do not need.
I guess fear can be appropriate in certain situations, avoiding the dangers of obvious death or bodily harm. But it seems that many would rather skydive, bungee jump, any number of things humans have invented to distract from the mundanity of the boxes society places us in. Rather this than be honest with ourselves, honest with our loved ones, honest with partial strangers we wish to convert into our loved ones.
Does the fear of life trump the fear of death? Is the fear of honesty greater than the fear of self deception? Do we fear leading ourselves and those around us down a path of falsehoods and fake smiles, all to preserve the semblance of peace we exist within day to day?
There seems to be more fear of emotional pain than physical. The proposed pain of rejection is a greater motivator than the off chance of acceptance. Our society has brainwashed us with negative reinforcement, intensely aware of what could go wrong with exposing our vulnerabilities, painfully ignorant of what could go right. The risk of shattering the already shaken,brittle sense of confidence we have tears us asunder, renders us incapable of chasing the beauty of connection, the righteous power that results from open and honest communication.
Instead we dance our awkward dances, attempting to create our own notes. Ones that cut across the wondrous melodies life provides for us. We move outside life’s natural rhythms, eager to prove our worth to society, simultaneously taking ourselves further from the greatness that exists inside each of us.
We know how to dance to the universe’s beautiful orchestra of randomness, but our attempts at control has buried our intuitive dancing feet under an avalanche of rules, logic, and faux rationale. All things created by our human insecurities.