Central Issue of Life

What is the central issue in life?    Each person who has accepted something as truth will defend and protect that truth since if it is not true, what are we doing and what is our purpose.  Training ourselves to be objective is a dangerous process.  It means you have to remain open.  To find freedom we cannot hold something.   There is no freedom in conformity.   We long for security, but our history tells us that we will never be secure as long as we are trying to hold on to something.

Fear, however, you define it, is what we are unable to act freely. This fear is based on anxiety, ignorance and attachment.   If we are attached to outcomes, we are fearful of failure.   How many times have I thought… if only I could reach this goal, then I will be secure, safe and without fear? 

  

As soon as you get it, you become attached and fear that you will not be able to hold onto it.

Is fear real or a conditioning?   If we create anxiety about living in a small world and then we find ourselves in a big world, can we go back to the small world?  How do I feel like a minnow in a large pond?

Underneath all the anxiety and fear, we are quite healthy.  Anxiety and fear make us constrict over trifles.  However, when something happens to us, and our health or mental stability is attached, if we can only say, thank you for sending me this… what is the lesson? 

The pause helps us step back and not react.   It is no reacting that brings us to the here and now.. and we are present… and we are free.  That is freedom and that is the central issue of life.