heel al (8)

Become a lab... 

of great experimentation. 

WATCH yourself inside... Just SEE you are feeling fear. It is dark, and you are alone, and for miles there is nobody. You are lost in a jungle, sitting under a tree on a dark night, and lions are roaring. Fear is there. Now there are two possibilities. 

One is, reject it. Hold yourself tight, so you don't start trembling because of the fear. Then the fear becomes a painful thing. It is there and it hurts. Even when you are holding yourself very tight, it is there and it hurts.

The second is, enjoy it. 

Trémble. 

Let it become a meditation. 

It is natural - lions are roaring! The night is dark, danger is so close by, death can happen any moment! Enjóy it! Let the trembling become a dance. Once you accept it, then trembling is a dance. 

Cooperate with the trembling, and you will be surprised. If you cooperate with the trembling, if you becóme the trembling, all pain disappears. 

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In fact... 

if you tremble... 

instead of pain, you will find a great úpsurge of energy arising in you. 

That is exactly what the body wanted to do! 

Why in fear does trembling arise? 

Trembling is a chemical process! It releases energy. It prepares you to fight, or take flight. It gives you a great sudden upsurge, it is an emergency measure. When you start trembling, you start warming up.

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That's why when it is cold, you tremble. 

There is no fear, so why do you tremble when it is cold? 

The body automatically trembles in the cold so that it becomes warm. It is a kind of natural exercise of the body. The inner tissues start trembling to become warmed up so they can face the cold. Now, if you repress trembling when you are feeling cold, it will become painful. 

That is exactly the case when you are in fear: the body is trying to prepare. It is releasing chemicals into the blood, it is preparing you to face some danger. Maybe you will need to have a fight, or maybe you will have to run away and take flight. 

Both will need energy.

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See the beauty of fear! 

See the alchemical work of fear! 

It is simply trying to prepare you for the situation... 

so that you can accept the challenge. 

But rather than accepting the challenge... 

rather than understanding fear... 

you started rejecting it. 

~osho~

unio mystica vol.1

(1978) - ch.8 q.1