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“QUESTIONER: So many experiences in the world create fears. If I remove myself from the world it is easy, but when I return to the world and want to live in it, then there is a conflict. BAWA MUHAIYADDEEN: Are we looking at the world outside, or are we looking at the world within? This is what we must reflect upon. The world is a stage, and our minds are actors on this stage. We are all just actors, and the things that we see outside are merely the scenery drawn on the backdrops. We cannot look at this stage, at these scenes, and say that this is the world. What we see outside is merely the acting of our minds. The true world, the real word, is within us. We take these scenes that we have inside of us and paint them on the outside, and then the person inside comes out to do the acting. As long as we hold onto the inner world which our mind has made, no matter where we may hide, that same world will emerge and become the outer scenery. That inner world will exist outside. But if we can leave it, if we can escape from it, then that world and all of the acts which go with it will be destroyed. There will be no more fear after that, no fear at all. We will be in heaven. QUESTIONER: How do we do that? BAWA MUHAIYADDEEN: This is what we have been talking about, slicing away little by little, whittling away these acts. These sixty-four arts that we have learned, all our desires and our cravings, all the things that bring joy and sorrow have to be cut away little by little. If we can succeed in doing that, we need not have any more fears. If a man is not afraid of death, then he will not worry about this life. He will not mind if he dies. Then even the deep ocean will come up only to his knees; the ocean will be like a ship for him, and he will float. But a man who is frightened of death could drown in water that is only knee-deep. The very fear will kill him. This is how it is. Amin.” Copyright: Questions of Life Answers of Wisdom, vol. 1 (p 130-1) Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Family Newsletter January – February 2002
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