What Do You Fear ?

There's so much fear in our lives.

If there's greed for something, or passion for something, there's the fear that you're not going to get it; or the fear that once you have got it, you're going to be deprived of it.

Then there's the fear based on anger. You know that if a certain thing happens it's going to hurt, you're going suffer, so you're afraid of it.

Lastly, there's the fear of delusion, of what you don't know. There's the sense of fear that there may not be any meaning or purpose to life; that it's just pointless suffering.

The purpose of meditation is to dig into the roots of these fears. Ask yourself "What exactly does my happiness depend on?" People will allow their happiness to depend on a whole lot of conditions; their health; the economy, the climate, the political situations, the continued beating of certain hearts.

So what do you do? You learn to look inside. You learn to develop a happiness less and less dependent on things outside, and more and more inward qualities. Since much of our happiness depends on undependable things, meditation points to a dimension beyond the reach of things that could harm our happiness.

The teachings of the Buddha takes you from the ordinary miseries of human life and leads you beyond, to a dimension where there is no misery.

The practice of this learning helps you remove the greed, passion, anger and delusions of your life.

When these are gone, you are left only with happiness.