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Hit a wall.

MarmaladeMarmalade
edited August 2010 in Buddhism Basics
Sometimes I get a nice awareness going. After a few hours I start to get scared, because this awareness isn't the consciousness that I'm used to. Today while I was at a park with my family I almost became petrified with fear because I couldn't feel the 'security' that I'm used to.

I can't kick the habit. I need a dharma nicotine patch.

Comments

  • fivebellsfivebells Veteran
    edited August 2010
    What happens if you open to the fear?
  • MountainsMountains Veteran
    edited August 2010
    Cool! Good for you. I've never felt that.

    :)

    Mtns
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    edited August 2010
    Perhaps remembering that you are opening out to the space of the buddhas and bodhisattvas and take refuge in them to help you. If you don't believe in the mystical you could look into finding some stories of bodhisatvas lives and see that many of them also encountered fear but they were able to overcome it in various ways.
  • seeker242seeker242 Zen Florida, USA Veteran
    edited August 2010
    Marmalade wrote: »
    Sometimes I get a nice awareness going. After a few hours I start to get scared, because this awareness isn't the consciousness that I'm used to. Today while I was at a park with my family I almost became petrified with fear because I couldn't feel the 'security' that I'm used to.

    I can't kick the habit. I need a dharma nicotine patch.

    You have one, it's called Metta. :)
  • rachMielrachMiel
    edited August 2010
    Marmalade wrote: »
    Sometimes I get a nice awareness going. After a few hours I start to get scared, because this awareness isn't the consciousness that I'm used to. Today while I was at a park with my family I almost became petrified with fear because I couldn't feel the 'security' that I'm used to.
    Courage! Cultivate the heart of a dharma warrior. :-)
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