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Beautiful David. Resonated deeply with me.
“you know it’s true.”
I listened to the video while I was jogging. It turned into a sprint without me realizing it. How did I get back home so fast? I must have lost my fear based ego 😉
This is kind of annoying me. Lose the fear, all fear? I get where you’re coming from but you make it sound like, don’t worry, nothing can harm you. do what thou wilt. Also, lose your ego, let it go?? That my friend is impossible. Literally impossible. We have ego’s for a reason, psychology 101. Don’t depress me.
Gina, Dave isn’t referring to knifes and bullets. He is talking about allowing people to truly connect with what is important in the world. He is suggesting, and I believe this to be the truth as I have come to separate but very similar conclusions, that by increasing our self-awareness and understanding the real nature of life we can see the lack of necessity for the suffering within it. It’s not something you can do in 10 minutes after reading his article. You have to have already journeyed a little down this path in order to see its truth and the perfect sense it makes. Try reading Krishnamurti and look into simple meditation as a possible starting point if you are really interested in understanding. Love and best wishes…
Western psychology is surprisingly inadequate when it comes to addressing fundamental aspects of consciousness. Look into Buddhist philosophy, meditation, and even psychedelic drugs and you will learn (and experience for yourself if you take the time to meditate properly) that the ego, the sense of self, is illusory and is merely a chaotic collection of impermanent memories, thoughts, emotions, sensory input, etc., all of which can be experienced WITHOUT a sense of self clouding the true nature of things.
Though I think some beautiful ideas are expressed in the above article, the wording is a bit questionable and seems in many ways to support and feed into the idea of a permanent, unified ego, as opposed to granting insight into the selflessness of awareness. I seriously recommend checking out Joseph Goldstein and his teachings on Vipassana (Insight) meditation. You really can’t go wrong listening to recordings of Goldstein explaining Buddhist philosophy (many are available on YouTube). This is not metaphysical mumbo jumbo; it’s rational, personally verifiable insight into reality. It’s a path to awakening and to freedom from dissatisfaction and suffering that I hope will one day spread across the globe, as the author of the above article describes.
May you lose your self (see what I did there?) in wisdom and love. Peace.
P.S. As for letting go of fear, it’s not about denying one’s own vulnerability or mortality. In fact, the increased awareness of the interconnectedness and interdependence of reality that comes with spiritual practice only increases one’s awareness of one’s own vulnerability and mortality. But there is no need to act from one’s fear, as one can wisely guard one’s health and safety simply motivated by a love of life rather than by the instinct of fear, which leads to all sorts of other unwholesome states such as a desire for isolation and separation. The trick is simply to be aware of one’s mental states, whether fearful, angry, melancholy, joyful, bored, lustful, or otherwise, and to accept these states as impermanent manifestations in consciousness, refraining from acting upon unwholesome states (such as fear or anger) while cultivating and acting upon wholesome states (such as love and compassion), without becoming attached to pleasant states or averse to unpleasant states, as all are impermanent and will come and go. This is mindfulness, and taken far enough (within the context of Vipassana meditation or another spiritual path) will lead to lasting freedom from the perpetually unsatisfactory nature of reality.
LOVE this!! So many beautiful quotes.
“Your freedom, your happiness and evolution, your path to becoming a positive force for all the people around you, therefore, our freedom, the path to global revolution, global evolution, the path to an entirely new paradigm will open up when you focus on what you love, when you align with your inner passion and flow.”
Awesome David, I will definitely read your book. I don’t know if you remember me but we had dialogue in the past after reading one of your previous books. I definitely have an unyielding passion for Buddhism, Drumming and Reading so without fear I immerse myself in these endeavors. Thank you so much for sharing this. I have some ideas I’d like to share with you so please send me an email or I can send one to the email I have on record.
SYNCED! David, another wonderful, accurate and very true post. I say Synced because as you wrote this piece I was writing to our current president, being suggestive of how he might secure a legacy that outlives his own life. Here is the “synced” part of what I had written to him. NOTE THE 2nd Line!
“If you want to form a legacy that out-lives your own life and goes on to affect many generations of people to come, the system must be tweaked. There has to be a few good changes, or, “securing’s” of the constitutional rights that protect and defend the originality of each free citizen. It has to become a system that is not competitive to, and between each other, as it is competitive towards the nobility for goodness and merit amongst each other. A law and bond that establishes the Golden Rule as such. The need to move away from a system that makes toxic our business relations, we must move closer to a system that accelerates and rewards good moral works and good merit. If you can produce these constitutional results, you will carry on a legacy for even 1000 years beyond this day in which I write to you.”
Houston, WE ARE ON SCHEDULE AND IN SYNC! 🙂
Love, Light and Power,
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I’ve been actually STUDYING love AND fear for some time now. And I’ve come to the conclusion made by many that love is letting go of fear. Fear is a lack of faith in the Great Spirit and if there is such a thing as “sin,” this may be it. David Degraw has made a major contribution to my personal body of knowledge of love and fear and I am very grateful.
To pursue your passion is to be the grandest vision of the greatest expression you ever had about yourself, and choose to pursue it baldly, with alacrity and tenacity. This was brilliant to read, to listen and to read & listen to in tandem. Inspired words. Thank you, Arie