Life is basically insecure. That's its intrinsic quality; it cannot be changed. Death is secure, absolutely secure. The moment you choose security, unknowingly you have chosen death. The moment you choose life, unawares you have chosen insecurity.Osho
Dearest all, a lovely quote from Osho!
Lets use it to change yet one more limiting label we experience life through; lets change our very consciousness about the word 'insecure' and in that enhance our English language for the generations ahead! This is indeed how languages grow... through the consciousness of those using them! Sanskrit's dynamism is because of the expanded consciousness of ancient seers who used the language to describe beyond the mundane!
By 'insecure' it means that: life means change; life means new (experiences, relationships, structures, outer and inner) for which the old must go; life implies not knowing it all; life means a series of fresh moments. And just as when you choose to play a game or see a movie or read a novel, it implies not knowing the whole in advance, but being open to their moment to moment ‘moments’ of pleasure or challenge or discovery or shifting flow of events…indeed the very reason you choose to play a game or see a movie or read a book…in the same manner have you chosen life! Or it’s like going to a cricket game and expecting cricketers to not be bowled out; going to a movie and knowing every dialogue; reading a book and knowing the end in advance!
Only in seeking that all should remain as it is; only when change is synonymous with threat; when stability and security is only linked with the ‘unchanging’ does ‘life is insecure’ translate to feelings of ‘insecurity’ as the word usually means- anxiety ridden and fearful .
If we however learn to be the screen on which different scenes and movies interestingly and intriguingly play out; if we play life like a game (where knowing every throw of the dice and moves on the board in advance would make it redundant) and enjoy the ‘uncertainty’ as part of why we play it… will the usual negative label we all have in our minds in context to the word/concept of ‘insecure’ change or expand to viewing it as synonymous with ‘exciting, fascination, discovery, spontaneous…living in the now!’ Ah …in this will ‘insecure’ not appear scary… but oh so freeing…liberating indeed! In this will ‘uncertainty’ be welcomed!
Love from my heart to yours Divyaa Kummar "If ‘death’ exists at all it is in stagnation, inertia and fear. The deeper implication of this understanding can be startling in your day-to-day terms. You will realize that the endings, losses and changes that you feared because they implied ‘death’ to you, are instead opportunities for growth. And that ironically it is your very resistance or fear of extending self that is the true ‘death’. Death is in your patterns, death is in your |