The search for security seems to be ingrained in the human DNA. Imagine you tripped over and were about to fall, your natural reaction would be to hold onto something - something that you could have a firm grip on. Now imagine further and suppose that this was played in slow motion and someone coaxed you to let yourself just fall and assured you that you would land in one intact piece, you would most likely be unconvinced. Deep inside us, we all crave for a safe haven. We wish to be somewhere or in a certain state of mind that can give us peace and safety, just like a mother's embrace. Well this desire sounds totally natural and logical as survival is a human instinct. But it becomes problematic when we mistakenly think that what is predictable can give us security. When we look for predictability we are also seeking for permanence, or in other words, some kind of confirmation that an event or patterns of events will unfold in a presumed way.
Yet what is true is the complete opposite - there is only impermanence in life. Searching for permanence is a distant mirage. When you can truly embrace impermanence, there is nothing to predict and impossible to predict. Once we have lifted the veil, we are only left with what is right in front us here and now and we can no longer be hijacked by any fearful thought of the future. For where is the future?
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