Feel yourself as pervading all directions, far, near.
- The obstacle is self-created narrowness. For security and safety you have built psychological walls — a portable prison you carry everywhere; at most a gloved hand reaches out a window, but no one is ever actually touched. The walls give no real protection (a prisoner is harder to kill than a president) yet leave you functionally dead.
- Prerequisite: stop building walls, stop demanding security — then the walls fall on their own and for the first time you feel rain, wind, sun touching you directly. It will first feel horrifying, because you are accustomed to the prison. Nietzsche’s ‘live dangerously’ is a religious instruction: not seeking danger, but refusing to armor yourself against life.
- The anxiety of insecurity does not come from insecurity but from the demand for security; drop the demand and the anxiety dissolves. Insecurity is simply the nature of life — the enlightened live in the same insecure world without anxiety because they have accepted the fact and stopped demanding otherwise. (Q&A: don’t wait until you are enlightened — start now; at first anxiety will arise, pass through it without retreating into wall-building. Accepting insecurity IS the path, not its reward.)
- Once the walls are truly gone the technique takes no effort: simply feel yourself pervading all directions, near and far. You have a center but no periphery — it expands endlessly; stars move within you, planets arise and set within you, the whole cosmos becomes your periphery.
- In that vastness the ego and the mediocre mind cannot survive — they exist only inside an enclosure, a narrow walled field. The encapsulation was never your real size; losing the walls is discovering your actual scale.
- Why accept insecurity: insecurity is exactly what makes life alive. Securing a thing kills it — marriage, made to protect love, kills it; the immortals of the Urvashi myth have sex but cannot love, because without death there is no aliveness and no intensity. To demand a permanent, secured love is to kill the very thing.