The root of most of our problems is insecurity.
Yes, our own insecurity.
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Yes, our own insecurity.
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Even if we have all that we need to be happy in the present moment, we will not be happy till we are assured that we will still have all these conditions for happiness 15 days from now, a year from now.
Such is our dire need for security.
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Such is our dire need for security.
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But is life ever secure.
How can something that can end any moment ever be secure?
How does one find security when everything we know and have is transient?
Short answer - No, you can never have security.
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How can something that can end any moment ever be secure?
How does one find security when everything we know and have is transient?
Short answer - No, you can never have security.
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But our mind is desperate for security. Our well being depends on it.
And yet, life by its very nature, can never be secure.
Do you recognise this conflict?
Do you recognise this conflict within you?
So, what do we do?
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And yet, life by its very nature, can never be secure.
Do you recognise this conflict?
Do you recognise this conflict within you?
So, what do we do?
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This ever lasting and futile search for security makes us attach ourselves to labels.
Nationalism is one such label. Suddenly, we have a cause. We are on the same wavelength as a large group of people. This makes us feel secure.
Even better, it creates us against them.
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Nationalism is one such label. Suddenly, we have a cause. We are on the same wavelength as a large group of people. This makes us feel secure.
Even better, it creates us against them.
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So you have people who are lost in their daily lives, suddenly become experts in matters of the nation.
Now they have a larger purpose, an individual or party to identify with. This gives them security.
Do you see this around you?
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Now they have a larger purpose, an individual or party to identify with. This gives them security.
Do you see this around you?
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But the search for security does not end there.
Such is our desperate need for security that we need assurance not only about our lives, but also after we are dead.
We want security even in death!
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Such is our desperate need for security that we need assurance not only about our lives, but also after we are dead.
We want security even in death!
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So, we have groups telling us do this and this while you are alive, and you are guaranteed such and such after you die.
And we gladly fall for this!
Do you see this around you?
Do you see this within you?
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And we gladly fall for this!
Do you see this around you?
Do you see this within you?
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What's the solution here?
How do we deal with this insecurity? The need for physical security is hardwired in our brains.
But here we are talking about the psychological need for security.
Do you recognise the difference between the two? It's important.
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How do we deal with this insecurity? The need for physical security is hardwired in our brains.
But here we are talking about the psychological need for security.
Do you recognise the difference between the two? It's important.
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You deal with this insecurity by accepting it!
That's it!!
Life is insecure by its very nature.
Stop running around in your futile search for security.
Make friends with it.
When you make friends with insecurity, you make friends with life!
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That's it!!
Life is insecure by its very nature.
Stop running around in your futile search for security.
Make friends with it.
When you make friends with insecurity, you make friends with life!
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