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To: soc.religion.eastern From: tyagi nagasiva Subj: Buddhism Date: 49930111 Quoting: |Abhay |I mentioned earlier that happiness is a state of mind in absence of |desires, which also means that there should be no fear or anxiety. |To get rid of fear and anxiety, we need to study what fear and anxiety are. 'Getting rid' of these feelings is, for many people, the exact opposite of what they need. There is entirely too much focus on the intellect as the Mighty God of Release. While such intellectual feats will bring release eventually, formany this is the longer and more painful road. In any case, I agree that studying fear and anxiety is a useful thing, especially since as one studies a thing it becomes a part of oneself. |Anxiety is a feeling that something bad is likely to happen. |(How do we know what is bad ?) |I guess fear is more or less the same thing. |Anxiety and fear arise out of uncertainty. Do they? Or is it certainty which inspires our disharmony? Many Western Existentialists seemed to think so. :> |If one believes that whatever happens happens for good, so that |nothing bad happens, there could be no anxiety. When does belief become wishing and wishing become desire? If I believe that the statue of liberty is day-glow yellow, will this be true? Or will I be coving maya with maya and calling Her wisdom? |How does one conquer anxiety, knowing very well that uncertainty |could always be there ? By accepting that the choice is not yours, |and by panicking, you are not likely to achieve anything. Whatever |happens, happens for good. Picture anxiety as a Great Black Serpent. She is attacked and beaten back out of sight time after time, remaining always just over the horizon, ready to break in upon us again when our guard is down. How do we slay such a creature as this? How can we tame Her, conquer Her will, shackle Her so that She will never again send us fleeing or coerce us to evil? As I see it we have two options... 1) We can oppose Her. We can gather our weapons together and practice with them, honing our skills until we can be certain that we shall be victorious. Then we can set out to defeat Her, piercing Her to Her core with our lances until She lies dead and dismembered, never to bother us again. [This is the way of strict zazen. ;D The path of Marduk.] or... 2) We can submit to Her. We can throw away our weapons and present ourselves before Her, humbly and expecting our immediate dispatch. [This is the way of the Laze. ;> The path of the tyagi.] My own experience tells me that both paths lead to the same goal. It isn't so much that we must defeat our fears as face them. Either as opponent or as ally, when we face them we can then become one with them and see them for what they are. My own path is dedicated to worshipping the Great Black Dragon (some call Her Tiamat, some Kali). This works well for me. Each must find their path or continue to suffer. Good luck. tyagi tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (c) 1994 tyagi nagasiva
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