Friday, March 19, 2010

Fear of the Known & Unknown.

The mind is fearful of the unknown, but thinks it knows the known and also what lies in the unknown - which is what makes it fearful; and yet the truth is, it knows not of anything known or unknown, which is why it is always in a state of fear.

8 comments:

  1. and the fear of unknown is what we call as obstacles...

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  2. And the obstacles, in truth, do not exist.

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  3. Fear is what kept us alive. Without fear, we would be doing all sorts of risky things that may have killed us long ago.

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  4. Can we then, do or not do things out of right understanding, instead of with fear?

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  5. If human can do or not do things out of right understanding, then there would be no war in this world.

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  6. It keeps me thinking every time i come to your blog...

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  7. Dear Mun, there is no war outside but our own inner wars. When our inner wars ceases, so will the war outside. :)

    Hi sdovelly, guess what, it keeps me thinking too!! And the flavour of comments I constantly receive from loving people like you supports in one way or another, the right understanding to surface. Even if it does not happen immediately, it happens eventually. :)

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  8. Yes, yes, yes Gerry. I guess we are all very lucky in Msia where there is no outside war except our inner wars. :) Not so much for people living in war-torn countries who risk having a limb blown off every now and then. :(

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