How do I Let Go of the Fear of the Unknown?

[00:06:47] So I was out walking before the meeting, and there's a, uh, a succulent plant about yay wide, about that high. And from the, just before the meeting, and it and it from it from the center, there's a giant stem going up, obviously, it's a flowering stem. Flowers 4 meters up in the air above roof height. And I I was here a couple of weeks ago and that plant, or maybe not last time, but the time before, say four weeks on that plant was really healthy. I noticed it. It was really healthy and alive and vibrant. But it's put these flowers up now, and it's put this almost like a tree trunk up at at to flower. And all the leaves, the sharp blade type leaves, are all dying off now and browning off. But they will recover. The plant's going to be fine. But that was simply the price of getting it to flowers up into the sky. Which was what it's ultimately here for, isn't it? It's the pinnacle of its existence. No? It's not to just be a plant, it's to flower. Hmm? And the price was a little bit, yeah, it had to give up a little bit. It's the the leaves are a little bit weak, it's feeling a bit, it's not as strong as it usually does and it's it's in a weakened state physically for a little while. But this this stem will fall off, the plant will come back to full health. But it's achieved what it was looking for in this existence. And and this plant represented it perfectly. And, uh, no mind was involved. No individual mind was evolved, it's a natural occurrence. Much the same. If you can reduce your mind activity and you're more stillness, become more aware of your actions instead of thinking about what things should be and labeling everything. You have this ability to flower naturally, without mind, without thought. And as the simplest of simple, this is the problem we have as as humans is the complexity of our minds robs us of this simple, simple seeing and understanding. Is our desires and our attachments hold us captive. So we think there's no way we could get our flowers above that roof into the sunlight. That's just not possible. So we stay small and we we don't even get to a size or have a, to the to the strength where we have enough power to do this. So we constantly give away our power and we stay small and we can't reach metaphorically the light. But this plant had no such agreement. It had no such mind holding itself down, capping it. So, it just did. It just it just did. And aligned with nature. Which is what I'm saying this is. Every every [01:35:10] It had to give up a little bit. It's it's the leaves are a little bit weak, it's feeling a bit, it's not as strong as it usually does and it's it's in a weakened state physically for a little while. [01:50:09] But this this stem will fall off, the plant will come back to full health. But it's achieved what it was looking for in this existence. [02:04:80] That's much like this. So my point being with all this is this, it's very much waking up or or or enlightenment is the same thing. It's it's very natural. It's the natural state of consciousness that humanity is here to attain. It's the flowering of consciousness. It's the flowering of of consciousness from all the different animals that our biology, Shiv's have been through all the way to here, where awareness has the comprehension and the ability to to rediscover itself and live as itself once again, reconnect again from its outward movement of biology. [02:50:00] And and this plant represented it perfectly. [02:55:96] And, uh, no mind was involved. No individual mind was involved, it's a natural occurrence. [03:10:00] Much the same, if you can reduce your mind activity and you're more stillness, become more aware of your actions instead of thinking about what things should be and labeling everything. You have this ability to flower naturally, without mind, without thought. [03:49:95] So we think there's no way we could get our flowers above that roof into the sunlight. That's just not possible. So we stay small and we we don't even get to a size or have a, to the to the strength where we have enough power to do this. So we constantly give away our power and we stay small and we can't reach metaphorically the light. But this plant had no such agreement. It had no such mind holding itself down, capping it. [04:36:78] So it just did. It just it just did. And aligned with nature. Which is what I'm saying this is. [05:01:83] This is not an addition. This is not religions or additions, are they? Doctrines are additions. Even the idea of being an atheist or the idea of being in a group called atheist, that's not even real either. [05:22:23] So and humanity's gone so far out of alignment, or or large tracks or groups of humanity have gone so far out of alignment that to flower is now something that weird people do. [05:41:25] And instead you just keep work capping yourself in different directions and pretend and and and search for solutions that just aren't there. They're just illusionary. When all you have to do is let go and surrender and things will happen how they're supposed to happen. [06:07:37] But then different to the plants, we have a biological history that can store data and we store memory, and our body store a lot of memory. Every soul's got a little history in it. And, uh, that that's represented even by your looks, isn't it? You could go to your great grandparents and I'm sure and see yourself in them. So not only biologically is it remembered, your traumas are remembered also. So we're full of shadows of our past. And these lead to sensation, which lead to feelings, which lead to emotion, which lead to entrapment and fear, without us even realizing what the fear is most of the time. And so we're we're capped and we think that capping is what we are or who we are. And that's just who we are, that's just my personality, that's how I am. But these are just historical patterns you learned, or you came here with. From your body's history. Your genealogy. Your genealogy, your history. [07:23:01] The plant doesn't have that. So each and every one, like it, can achieve that flowering. And they can do it every year. [07:51:71] And the silence, it's not going to be able to be labeled. These words are false next to it. [08:29:85] So it's about finding what's capping you, what what's stopping you from allowing whatever your deepest is to express itself. And it's not, I'm nobody, I'm nothing repeated statements. They can be helpful at certain times for very advanced seekers, but for the vast majority of people, they are useless. They are they're another trap, another capping, because they're ignoring the biology and the history. And it doesn't work that way. [09:06:05] If you're a plant and it could have a simple thought, that would be okay. [09:12:12] We're much more complex. [09:34:25] And much like that plant, there's another plant next to it that's also flowering. And in a different way. That one was just metaphorically really, really good to explain what I'm trying to get across. There's another plant next to it, also flowering, that didn't need to reach there. It had enough service area or whatever to flower and be okay. And that was that plant. They can both coexist perfectly fine their own way. The same but different. Much like humanity, uh, waking up. This is this way this one expresses itself and the way this one expresses itself and there's another one here and another one here. And the that expression doesn't have to disappear. That way will still, that frame will still be there. It's it's not a zombie hood. It's it's actually the true expression of of of your um, being here. Beingness comes through you like electricity comes into a fridge or a plant to or an oven or a dishwasher. They all have different tasks and and there's no conflict. I'm not saying you're a kitchen utensil. [10:51:65] Right? Metaphor. So what I'm saying is they all require the same a source of energy. And it's much the same as this, it's the same source. It's not a um, a zombie hood, a unified zombie hood that occurs. [11:15:35] Because I only say that because so many people in their system, their mind will tell them and my mind used to do it too, you'd say, oh, that that looks like fun but no, no, that that looks amazing but it doesn't look like fun but it is fun. It is it's an amazing thing. It's a beautiful thing. The insight is, um, you're just so alive inside, it's hard to even comprehend with words and express with words. Um, yeah, it's just something you have to experience. But perhaps everyone's had a deep, deep experiences of contentment and joy where they think life's the best thing they've ever experienced and it's and and it's like that. And possibly, or probably much higher. You live like that all the time. It takes a while to get used to actually. And you may not talk much. Like the that plant just kind of resting now. Just going, whoosh. Man, this is great. The flowers are up there. And it's just resting. You're like that for a while. [12:17:15] Then you come back and your and and more vibrant than you've ever been. And you may speak, you may not. You may teach, you may not. You may be, you may know you've found it, they may not. And none of it matters. [12:51:50] So, I'll leave that there. Has anyone got any questions that they'd like to ask? [13:10:25] It's as simple as as the Zen would say, you know, um, paraphrasing, but you know, when you're drinking tea, you're drinking tea. You're not drinking tea and doing something else. You just drink your tea. And and and that simplicity is amazing. And the beauty in that's amazing. Within, just aware of it. You don't need anything else. You don't need need the tea, you can just be quiet, sit. [13:51:19] Um, how do you let go of the fear of the unknown? [13:57:45] Every night you go into the unknown. Why don't you fear that? [14:28:98] There's no fear there. [14:30:17] It's quite easy. [14:37:16] Every night you disappear for, let's say, eight hours. [14:43:40] It's like, yes. Get to go to sleep. [14:46:58] And then then why is it yes? [14:49:50] I think because it's fully restful and there's no chance of like, well, except for bad dreams maybe, but like discontentment is peaceful. [15:04:88] It's the same. You can feel like that while in the waking dream. So there's the the waking dream. We're all we're all seeing things slightly differently. We're all in this room, we're seeing it all differently. So we all have, you could say, we all have our own dream of this room and maybe thoughts come in with that dream and mix with it, right? Or we have pure awareness here. Just seeing things as they are. Then we have the sleeping dream, then we have deep sleep. But the deep sleep's a mystery, isn't it? Where nobody knows where where we go. No, silence doesn't know where we go. So we could call it the unknown. No? So, I I I would ask from the other direction, where would you find fear there? Why would you find fear there? [16:13:21] Because you've done it thousands of times. Stepped into the unknown. And the reason I've found it restful and not fearful. So we could call it the unknown, no? [16:40:99] But the mind keeps us contained and and trapped by providing fears for things that he can't understand. And it can't really understand anything that it's not controlling. So in that death, or that, uh, allowing of this so-called death, or this, uh, this ego death, if if we can somehow penetrate the contractions of the mind and and the influence of the mind, it can drop away. [17:23:71] It's fraudulent can be exposed. And and and we unwrap, so to speak. So, you know, a lot of people call it the the shadow work. By undoing the shadow work, the the the history, the things hiding in the corners from our past. Uh, the memory stick of the body. [17:55:04] We simply return back to naturalness. And it's incredibly incredibly, uh, there's nothing more required. It's blatantly obvious once that's found, no? What do you need now? All these words are simply because we're dealing with complications of mind. [18:19:15] It's a great question. I don't know. [18:22:04] What's that? [18:22:36] It's a great question. I don't know how to explain it. [18:26:16] Which question? [18:27:60] What's aware of that awareness? [18:29:43] What's aware of the awareness? Yeah, what is aware of the awareness? [18:35:86] I have no idea. [18:39:90] The unknown. Is it terrible? Is it scary? The unknowable. Just the sense of knowing. [19:12:40] Fearful, huh? [19:20:96] We are the thing that never never moves. Not this, not that. Just before the word nitty-nitty. That's silence space. [19:25:61] Um I have one question. [19:27:14] That recently there has been more of a like a pull towards play, but I'm not sure if that isn't really if it if I lose myself in that, in that not knowing. [19:30:17] Lose who in that? [19:30:75] Like, the like, maybe the mind gets a bit involved in or something, and then [19:35:80] It's okay to play, but don't lose awareness. Is the trick. Play playing is good. Playing is fine. That's what do the birds consider whether they should play or not? Does does your dog consider whether it should play or not? [19:53:77] No. [19:54:19] So the key is just awareness of [19:55:82] You're remaining aware. Yeah, play is just natural. It's the natural, um, playfulness. It's natural. [20:02:64] So that's all that fear is. It's just thought forms. Trapped in trapped, uh, energies in the system, trapped history in the system. It's not real. What's aware of awareness? Awareness is real. The still, unmoving, silent thing. So the deep sleep's not you. The the waking dream is not you. The sleeping dream is not you. They are states of consciousness. They they all move in some way. They all require something. Behind that is actually something else. It's aware of those three states. And so when you're here now, you can be aware of all your experiences here with the eyes open. And that you is the thing aware of that and even further back, what's aware of that awareness. [20:56:49] And the reason I've found it restful. [20:58:14] What's that? It's a great question. I don't know how to explain it. [21:00:23] No. [21:00:46] It's good, though. [21:00:99] What's aware of the awareness? [21:02:51] It's such a lovely like, it's like, I don't know. [21:04:88] It's a great question. I don't know. [21:06:50] Fearful, huh? [21:10:04] You got me. [21:14:02] Remembering there is no separate God. [21:16:33] There's only one thing here. The only one thing anyway. [21:19:15] It's just simply a borrowed body from the earth. To play with. A toy. And it will return back to the earth. And it will come up as another body. Of who knows what. Perhaps a plant. Perhaps another human. Who knows? This is just a cycle. We are not that cycle. It's an incredible cycle. It's amazing. We are not it. We are the thing that never never moves. Not this, not that. Just before the word nitty-nitty. That's silence space.

• The Flowering of Consciousness
  The natural, non-volitional unfolding of Direct Realization, much like a plant flowers when conditions are right, free from mental interference.
• Capping
  The self-limiting mechanism of the ego-structure, which uses stored historical patterns, agreements, and fear to prevent the natural expression of consciousness.
• Agreements
  Unconscious domestications and beliefs that define the boundaries of personal possibility, creating the 'cap' that holds one down.
• The Mitoté (The Fog)
  The constant internal noise of labeling, judging, and conceptualizing that obscures the simple, direct seeing of reality.
• Shadow Hunting
  The process of deconstructing stored historical trauma and patterns held in the body's memory, which are the source of fear and contraction.
• Direct Presence
  The state of being fully engaged in an action without a secondary layer of thought, as in 'when you're drinking tea, you're drinking tea'.
• The Waking Dream
  The subjective reality experienced during wakefulness, which is colored and filtered by the mind's patterns, memories, and thoughts.
• The Unknowable
  The silent, aware space prior to consciousness and its three states (waking, dreaming, deep sleep). It is not an object to be feared but the very ground of being.
• Dissolution of Ego-Structures
  The dissolution of the mind's fraudulent control, allowing the contractions of fear and identity to unwind and expose the natural state.
• Naturalness
  The state of being that is restored when the 'capping' mechanisms of the mind are dismantled, allowing life to express itself without friction.