Staying with the Knowing
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The teacher offers guidance on how to meet intense fear and pain by remaining with present-moment knowing, without adding narrative or meaning.
Staying with the Knowing
The teacher offers guidance on how to meet intense fear and pain by remaining with present-moment knowing, without adding narrative or meaning.
I would just say: pay it down in drops. You got through that. It's not so much about understanding it, although the clarifying is really helpful. You paid down some of the debt of the fear. You got through it, and you will get through it.
And the way you get through it is to keep with the present knowing. Now there is fear. There is a knowing of fear. That's all it is.
Knowing without narrative
And now there is this. Now there is pain. And watch how the story, the narrative, gets created. Now there is a knowing of a story narrative being created. Keep knowing. Keep staying with the knowing.
In a sense, this is the most tremendous fear you have known, and that's all there is right now: tremendous fear. Nothing more. It does not mean anything. It does not signify anything. It does not say anything about you or the narrative. It does not inform anything. It's just: now there is the most tremendous fear I remember. Now there is the most deep pain. That's all there is. Nothing less, nothing more. Don't add any meaning to it.
I'm celebrating for you. I think it's really amazing.
I agree. It's a profound breakthrough, into the untamed.