posted on May, 16 2010 @ 11:57 PM
The whole secret to existence is not to have no fear, if you had no fear you wouldn't exist. The thing he was trying to express is like it says in
the book dune, wich I didn't read yet. But "fear is the mind killer" But fear is universal so to put it in context, the Budhha like it says was a
prince and had no fear he lived in a wonderful bubble, when he left that bubble and saw the world he saw 2 things. One was what was keaping his elite
former world sustained, the rabble/pesants. And second he saw himself in them the peasant's the untouchables, and why the bubble could not be
sustained for long periods of time, and the aristocracy in his day, kept the peasant under control through fear. superior to inferior. And how did
this come to be so, same way it has before, one group thinks they are inferior so lets another control them. It was a decaying wasteful system.
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you
freed.”
In the context of his experience of living on both sides of the fence, the above is advice on how to get away from the slavery of the system of the
day. For the peasant's thought and were told, that the upper world sustained there world. But infact the peasant's sustained the elite upper
world/aristocracy. It's in context on how to live in civilisation among people, "If you never fear what will become of you" you have more freedom
to become as one free, from the fear of becoming what someone else wants you to become. "If you depend on no one" you have no one to fear losing,
but this is not practical in today's society, unless you want to be a hermit. "Only the moment you reject all healp are you freed" again it works
but is not practical in society. So it would be better said,
“The whole secret of existence is to have no irrational fear, only a clear perspective on fear. Never fear what will become of you it's a waste of
energy, simply live life as you deem life liveable, depend on no one that is not depending on you. Only the moment you know who to reject and who to
not reject help from, are you freed to help yourself.”
Again if you are a living being you can not escape the fear of living life, the only thing one can do is have a clear perspective on what you
shouldn't fear and what you should fear.
[edit on 17-5-2010 by galadofwarthethird]