“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” - Helen Keller.
Strangely that we fight for security and certainty at all cost in exchange for a secure job that pays well, a comfortable home to provide security to the family and a stable partner who is socially responsible, like we are fighting for our last breath.
How on earth then in amongst the well paid job, the comfortable home, the stable partner and the academically advancing children as well as all insurance policies for the home, health, children accident, the cars, the boats, the possessions, the investments; we are still feeling unsecured in so many ways and caused our heart to suffer. Suffocated. Empty. Our heart pants while we run so fast in chasing security.
Are we seeking security against the nature of things – impermanence, ebbs and flows, destruction comes after construction, constant changes that we call evolution are the norm of life? As a result, we become the prisoner of security to insure our life and possessions against the nature's odd for our mental comfort only.
The truth - our heart yearns to experience the unknown and life as a mystery. When every moment is renewed and brings about the impulse of joy that gives us directly experiences of being alive and free. Just like children jumping into the river in a cold day without asking what the water temperature is; they strip, they swim, they laugh and they get out. It is so simple when the impulse of life is what we are in sync with.
We build a swimming pool to provide clean water for the children to swim, but god knows that their heart yearns to swim in the wild river to experience freedom. We build a fortress as a home to keep the rain out and hold the warmth inside, but the soft animal of our body loves the feel of raindrops washing off the city dusts while the summer breeze awakes the spirit inside our flesh and bones.
How often we trust the impulse of our wild spirit – our passion - can navigate through the complexity of life and take us to experience the freedom of being alive. The irony is that only when we use our innate passion as a compass to cut through the mental derbies like fear, self- unworthiness, self-hatred and frustration hat we are unconsciously covering up with a fabricated mental concept called security and certainty; then WE COME ALIVE.
In choosing the path that seems the most certain and secured, we are guaranteed only one thing: that we go through life wondering how things could have been if only we weren’t so afraid.
Today if you find yourself tightly wrapped within the blanket of security, comfort and certainty; and yet - the heart is feeling suffocated and lonely. Ask yourself - "Are these the moments I want to remember when I look back on my life some day?"
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” - Helen Keller.
Is there a path leading to a daring adventure that your heart yearns for? If you so choose, let's the truth - Dharma - speaks from the heart!
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