Welcome back. If you've been listening these past few weeks, you'll know that we are on our journey from human to met a human.

Today we continue.

Suffering comes to an end when we no longer fear impermanence.

As long as we have a stake in the illusion,

we will suffer. Children are eager to explore the world and they love how everything is changing.

But at the same time a child wants the security and safety of home.

This balance becomes harder to maintain as an adult.

As we grow up we lose the sense of playfulness and wonder and delight

that every moment offers.

So as we grow up, change becomes threatening

when there is no one at home to promise safety and security.

One way to hold anxiety at bay is to pretend that I, the ego personality, is stable and reliable.

I has a stake in the world something to maintain. The ego

builds itself up by every kind of clinging to pleasure to fantasy wishful thinking out on conditioning old memories false

beliefs resentments grievances grievances, on and on.

All those things are impermanent.

So it doesn't work to build a self with them

as your foundation or as your identity.

Fear of change departs only when you base your life

on your

fundamental

fundamental witnessing awareness,

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