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WE ARE TRAINED in wrong ways; otherwise, security is something to be afraid of, and insecurity is something to be rejoiced. What exactly is insecurity? It means tomorrow is not going to repeat today. It means tomorrow you may not even be alive. It means that one has to live each moment as if it is the last moment. A life of security will be simply boring. It will be like seeing the same movie again and again and again — knowing every detail of what is going to happen. You can enjoy a movie only once. If you are an idiot, then it is another matter….
Insecurity is the very fabric of life. If you don’t understand insecurity, you can never understand life. Seasons will change; climates will change; the fall will come, the spring will come. Everything will go on changing, nothing can be taken for granted; this is insecurity. You want everything to be certain, permanent. But have you ever thought what will be the outcome of it if everything is permanent? You eat the same food every day, you say the same things every day, you listen to the same things every day. And there is no death even to demolish this tragic living — you are living in a nightmare.
Insecurity keeps people fresh, alive, adventurous — knowing that things can be changed. Even without their changing them, they are going to be changed. So there is great scope for change, for transformation.
Drop the fear, because the moment you hold on to it, it multiplies. To hold on to it is to nourish it. But dropping fear does not mean fighting with it. To fight is also to hold on to it. Just know that fear is. Do not run away from it, do not escape. In life there is fear, there is insecurity, there is death – just know this. All these are facts of life. Where would you run from them? How would you avoid them? Life itself is such. And its acceptance, its natural acceptance, is the freedom from fear. Once fear is accepted, where is it? Once death is accepted, where is it? Once insecurity is accepted, where is it?
But the whole training of our minds is such that we are made afraid of insecurity, and our whole life we are trying for safety. Financially, politically, religiously — in every dimension we want to be secure. But security means death, a living death. It means tomorrow will be simply a repetition of today, and today is a repetition of yesterday.
Are you living? Is there a dance in your life? Are you moving, growing, risking, taking the challenges of dangerous paths? In the acceptance of the danger, in the acceptance that anything can happen any moment, life comes to its best, to its fullest.
The moment you accept insecurity, you stop asking for security. The moment you understand that insecurity is the nature of life, the moment you see that asking for security is asking for death a secure person is a dead person. If you are alive you will have to live in insecurity.
Once the insecurity, unavoidability and inescapability is accepted, then rather than crying and complaining and dragging yourself towards the grave, why not dance? Why not make the most of the time that you have between cradle and grave? Why not live every moment to such totality that if the next moment never comes, there is no complaint? You can die joyously because you have lived joyously.
