What is the fear that prevents us from relaxing into our own self?
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"To relax into your own self is to embrace a psychological death, shedding the ego and borrowed identities that bind you to fear and illusion. Only by confronting this fear can you discover the freedom of your true existence."
According to Osho, we fear relaxing into our own self because it demands a psychological death—the dropping of the ego and all borrowed identities. Conditioned by parents, teachers, priests and politicians, we equate letting go with betrayal and risk of hell, so we cling to the unreal self. This inherited fear—greased by greed for heaven—keeps us identified with poison-tree conditioning instead of our existential being.
We’re scared to let our pretend, learned self die, so we don’t rest in who we truly are.
Why this matters practically
- See fear as conditioning, and use awareness/meditation to drop labels.
- Respond with compassion to elders, breaking the cycle for your children.
- Make choices free of guilt, hell/heaven bargaining, aligning with your authentic being.
- Respond with compassion to elders, breaking the cycle for your children.
- Make choices free of guilt, hell/heaven bargaining, aligning with your authentic being.
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