Relinquishing Security – Gaining Trust

Security and survival are ideas that appear almost interchangeable.

To be secure often means – to be secure, to survive.

And to survive often means – to be secure, to survive.

Take for example, Seat belts in your vehicle.

We often say ‘Secure your seat belts’. Why? Because, if seat belts are secured, the likelihood of your survival improves.

Then there are security devices – like burglar alarms, car alarms. Such devices protect and secure our belongings that are important for our survival.

There are security guards – in shopping malls, in prisons, schools and work places. They work to secure our possessions and families – against threats and loss, thereby maintaining our survival.

Look at money and how we accumulate money. We save money and invest money to secure our future financial needs. Once our own future needs are secured, we seek to secure financial needs of our children and future generations.

We work to keep the house and our status secured in the world. We avoid war-zones so that our lives are secure – and instead pay for a special group of people and organisations to represent us in war zones – while we sit safely and securely in our living rooms and watch them on TV.

Big Problem with Security:

The big problem with the whole notion of security is this:

All effort for security is a reflection of our inherent insecurity.

It is a denial of what we know to be true - no different from denial of an alcoholic who denies his dependence.

In other words, our desire, and struggle for security implies that we know that we are insecure. We feel threatened, unsafe and vulnerable – inside. We know that we are not secure in the most fundamental sense.

We understand and realise that whatever means and methods of security we invent, ultimately, we are helpless – to even have control over our own lives. Even our thoughts and actions are not under our control. Our children, our families, our neighbours, our pets, our countries – nothing is under our control. The weather, the seasons, the world, the universe – nothing is under our control.

Most people come to understand at some point in life that they are helpless. They are completely and totally insecure.

They are at the mercy of something that they do not know. Some call it genes and try to control or spread their genes. Some call it knowledge and science and go to amass that. Some think of it as God – and seek to be in his good books. Some think of it as money, relationships, legacies, and so on.

What happens if we let go of all security?

Every night when we sleep – we do not know if we will wake up the next morning. No one knows.

Every day that we spend – we do not know if that day will be our last. And we know for sure that it will be one of the days or one of the nights that will be our last.

Many of us have that day projected far ahead in to future. Somehow we do not think of that day as today.

What if that day was today?

What if today we let go of all needs to be secure?

What if today we became independent of our houses, our cars, our possessions, our children, families, friends, work and jobs, money, clothes, ideas, beliefs, and all other physical, mental and emotional associations?

What if today – we did not seek to maintain, retain and continue any of the above?

What will happen?

Such is the point where the mind either becomes very frightened or very silent.

It becomes frightened because; it does not know what will happen. Seeking security is the key function of the mind. Seeking is the function of the mind.

When it is rendered jobless – it becomes agitated, it asks and reasons and hypothesizes as to what might happen.

It argues – projects and attempts to retain its post as the controller of the body – which it takes as its responsibility.

It can not imagine a possibility where it is not required to work for survival and security of the organism that it considers itself to be.

And then, there is a possibility that the mind becomes silent.

What happens then?

Trust happens then.

Surrender happens then. Death happens then. Life happens then.

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