Compassion is Not for Cowards

here's a question about fear and it came to me a few days ago just after the would you directly address the different kinds of fear present after this election for example fear of the bigotry and the racism that is coming from the president-elect and the people he's appointing fear that's being felt by people of color immigrants Muslims women and so on as a result of this election and the rapid growth of hate crimes after it the fear that's being felt by Liberal white people facing their families and communities and not knowing how to communicate what has happened may be addressing these different kinds of fear naming them specifically and looking at your approach might be helpful explicit that is needed in this moment I think that's a good question my approach is the creation of authentic power and it's not my approach it's something that I offer to you for your consideration and the approach is this that you have a purpose that you were not born without a purpose into the earth school and that purpose is to use your life wisely and lovingly to use the span between your birth and your death as well as you can and the way to do that is to align your personality with your soul the part of you that intends harmony and cooperation and sharing and reverence for life the part of you that longs to contribute the part of you that knows what it wants to give and your job so to speak is to align your personality with that part of you and that part of you is your soul now how does that relate to this question about the election of Donald Trump in the United States the question was about different kinds of fear and she would like me to be explicit fear is never the problem fear is always the opportunity fear is the opportunity for you to see exactly what it is in your personality that you need to experience fully challenge and move beyond in order to move into your full potential before you can do that you can't give the gifts that you were born to give and until you begin to give the gifts that you were born to give you can't move into fulfillment and meaning and purpose and joy and all of this is the benefit of experiencing fear consciously thoroughly in terms of physical sensations in your body in terms of the thoughts that it thinks so that you can recognize it and decide while you are recognizing it not to act on it now that is how you create authentic power doing that again and again and again every time of fear such as anger or bigotry or superiority or inferiority comes in to you to recognize it and challenge it and the more you do this the more its power over you diminishes until its power over you evaporates and you are free of it this is the process this is the way it works you exercise your own demons now you can see those demons and other people but they're not yours those are the demons of other people and it's for them to exercise their own demons you cannot grow spiritually for someone else you cannot help them move beyond the control of their fears you can only do that for yourself but in doing that yourself you contribute the most that you can to their spiritual growth for you model for them someone who is challenging fear someone who is choosing love someone who is learning to move through the earth school with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome so there are many forms of fear and they all serve the same purpose they expressed the pain of powerlessness they attempt to mask the pain of powerlessness this is a pain that all of us have deep inside of us it's the pain of feeling unworthy to be alive the pain of feeling inadequate inherently do flawed defect flawed and defective it's the feeling that you don't want people to see you as you are really inside because they wouldn't want anything to do with you this is excruciating and to cover that pain five sensory personalities reach outward to manipulate or attempt to manipulate the world other people and circumstances and in that doing they become angry or bigoted or jealous or resentful or superior or inferior but that part of their personality that has been activated remains in place it will remain in place until you turn inward find it and change it when you are committed to one person winning an election and another person losing and that commitment is an emotional commitment in other words that's different from your intention your intention to have one to support one person in obtaining this important position your intention is to prevent another person from doing something that damages democracy that's not the same as your fear of losing because that fear will prevent you from seeing all of the ways that your intuition can provide you to have an effective and positive outcome Gandhi is a wonderful example of this he was not fearful it was not fearful of the British for their brutality in India he never judged a British person he judged British policy he judged brutal British behavior and he committed himself to removing that from India and he was successful Martin Luther King followed this same path and you have the opportunity to follow this same path were you jubilant that one person won an election and are you despondent that that same person won the election those are emotional experiences and both of them come from fear jubilation that you were successful in changing the world so that you can feel better about yourself that's a temporary experience the world will give you other experiences and while you're at the top of the roller coaster now the other experiences will send you down to the bottom happiness is not the same as joy happiness depends upon what happens in the in the outside world in the external world joy is independent of what happens in the world it's like a Sun a flame a candle that's burning in you it's a brilliance it's it illuminates all that is good and constructive and how to create it in yourself and creating it in yourself allows you to create it outside it allows you to be a true activist a political activist an environmental activist a social activist an economic activist as any kind of activist and to be so with an open heart this is effective activism this is activism that brings into being the force and the power of love it's not the force to change the world it's the force to contribute to the world it's the ability to be what you want the world to be and in so doing you contribute something huge to the world love and in order to do that you must cultivate it and develop it in yourself so this question asked what about the fear of this person the fear of that person I suggest that this person and that person do what they need to do to challenge that fear but you need to do what you need to do to challenge it in yourself or you will remain imprisoned within it let's take a specific example a woman walking on the street or a Muslim woman walking on the street and fearing for her safety being aware that there is a danger to your safety and fear are very different experiences you can radiate love as you walk and still take precautions to be safe you can walk with another person you can have a phone with you you can stay in neighborhoods that you feel are safe and you can do this with love you can do this without touching people even without judging people who may intend you harm those people are in the control of frightened parts of their personalities what part of your personality are you going to allow to determine your words your actions and your orientation toward others creating authentic power is not for cowards compassion is not for cowards creating love choosing love instead of fear is not for cowards the choice of love leads to bliss and there there is no fear but that acquires your work and fear every form of fear in you offers you an opportunity to do it and in the process contribute to the world which you cannot what you cannot contribute when you are bound by fear the gifts that you were born to give they give that your soul wants to give

Channel: Gary Zukav

Views: 39,694

Keywords: external power, powerlessness, fear, emotional awareness, authentic power, spiritual growth, responsible choice

Id: js9AhQrUlHE

Length: 11min 32sec (692 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 16 2018