I’m a prisoner of time
I’m a ticking clock
I’m an inmate trying
To pick the lock
I’m a prisoner of time
I do decree
Until I can’t believe in
What I call “me”
I’m a prisoner of time
I’m thoroughly bound
I’m the business of keeping
I stand my ground
I’m imprisoned by fear.
The shadow’s always there,
Even when I turn out the lights.
Fear is awareness of danger, so it’s a mistake to demonize it. When Krishnamurti talked about living without fear he was referring to the false sense of danger engendered by the false sense of self.
If the brain cares to understand why it puts its false sense of itself first and foremost, it can’t blame anything other than itself. So instead of blaming something particular for its disorderly operation, the brain needs to awaken to what it is actually doing constantly.
The shadow is not a demon, it’s truth we don’t want to see.
Yes, but why call it “the shadow”? Why blame fear?
The conditioned brain decides, chooses what the truth is instead of being choicelessly aware.
For me the word fear points to a type of suffering seemingly inherent in being human. It’s the dread of impermanence, loss, death.
Yes, it’s the reminder of one’s mortality activated by the sense of danger, but it isn’t suffering when it is just the occasional awareness of danger.
The imagined self, however, can “die” any moment, so the conditioned brain suffers the constant fear of psychological death every moment. That’s suffering.
Seems onto me psych fear requires psych time requires identification with psych self.
“I” is the prison of life.
Trying to drink water from oasis mirage?
There is no lock you try to pick on!
K says, “There is no wall… no division. Looook at it!”
Your ego stands firm, to keep and strengthen its space which is strictly within the mirage, as the ego is itself a mirage or a part of it!
My job is to find out when and how it took a hold of and got on a freeride… in my life…