Beloved Tantrica,
This year the world has been and still is in a chaos. It is
not a new chaos. It is there since a long time, but this year it has taken a
bigger proportion. A war which can easily be called a third world war is shaking
the whole world. On the Path of Tantra, it is said to accept everything,
because everything can be transformed. Looking at war, I must say it is not
easy to figure out what can be transformed there. But not so long ago in one of
our recent retreats, I got a transmission which sheds a new light on what is
going on in our chaotic time.
I like to share this transmission with you as a gift to make
us all move out of the fear that has been imparted on us since millennia and
which keeps us all out of love.
Who has made you afraid of love?
“I recently discovered some fear issues inside of me. I
discovered it in my relation to my lover and I can only see a pattern of fear
in love situation that only pops up, so I never thought I had some fear issue
in me, but I have seen clearly… Maybe you can give me some advice, what it
means, what I can bring into the light and burn it.”
From my own experience, you cannot burn fear, you can only
laugh at it. It is good to really look clearly at what fear is about, where it
comes from in you, what is the essence of it, what its purpose is. There are
different layers in fear – it comes down to survival things in you that bring
you into more alertness in some situations. It doesn’t mean it needs to be
translated into fear, it could just simply be translated into alertness. For
instance, you are walking somewhere, and suddenly there is a snake on your
path. Of course you become alert, because there is a danger, but why should you
be afraid? So in your system there is an inbuilt alertness, which is very
beautiful; but how come the alertness has become fear? Who has made you afraid
of snakes in the first place? And this is a very basic example. Who has made
you afraid of love? Who has made you afraid of sex? It is important to question
all that, so if I were you, I would not bother so much about the fear, but I
would question who in the first place has made you afraid of love, of sex, of
deep intimacy, of deep communion. Even afraid of consciousness! Question all
that. In questioning all this, you will for sure open up to an inner revolution
and this inner revolution is needed in everyone. Everyone now, on this planet,
needs to start questioning: “Who has made me afraid of love?” Your whole nature is made of it! Who has
created this fear in you? I would like you to look into that. Once it is clear,
you can only laugh at your fear, it will not work anymore.
Who has made you
afraid of love? You might see many situations connected to some people. Please
don’t bring judgement, because these people also have been made afraid of love,
and it goes on and on since many generations. Keeping people in fear, means you
can control them. Parents who keep their children in fear can control them. Parents love their children
under some conditions, in this way they impart fear to their children and in
this way they can control them. Society does the same on a bigger scale.
Religions, most of the religions, also follow the same system. While you are
going to start questioning, you might come to a point that it’s not just about
your parents, your teachers, your professors or your society – it goes so far
away, so far away in time also. You are going to realise it is like this since
so long! So when it will come back to you, look at that: do I still want to
believe in that, do I still want to cooperate in that, do I also want to make
myself and others afraid of love? Because you do. It’s important you also see
that. You have been made afraid of love and in that you also start
participating in making others afraid of love. It will start making you
responsible: First of not cooperating anymore in that inner program of being
afraid of love, and second of not making others afraid of love. There is a big
urgency happening on this planet since quite a long time already. It’s
important you know it is going to become bigger and bigger. It is going to
happen more and more on a small scale and a big scale, with war in the big
world and war in the small world - such as in your relationship, in family, in
your work, and inside of you there also is a war happening. It’s a very
important one, I would prefer to call it a revolution rather than a war. Love
starts protesting. It is strange to say that, because love never protests
anyway. It never argues, it never fights. It’s like a moon – it can receive everything.
But it happens now – I could call that inner intelligence of love – the inner
intelligence of the spirit of love is protesting. Nobody can kill love, it will
not disappear; this is for sure. You can kill everyone on this planet, you can
deny your lover, you can deny your family, your children – love will not
disappear. But you will damage something. You will damage the possibility of
living in love. This is such sad story. While deciding to be born on this
planet, you decide to live the potential of love, you decide to experience
this. So love, as an inner intelligence, starts protesting, showing you that
now it is enough, you all came here to live love, to explore it, to relax in
it. Why condemning that potential?
So you have fear, you discover fear. It is true, you have a
lot of fears. They all come to one basic fear, which has been imparted on you,
and it’s not so much about looking who are responsible; though, like I tell
you, start questioning who have made you afraid of love? Start looking deeper
into it, start laughing at your fear, build up your trust. Make it clear why
you are here. Make it clear you have chosen to be here to build a full
potential of living love. And it’s possible you encounter some difficulties
around you, because many still believe in fears. So of course if you are
suddenly loving, some people will become afraid. Some people will even run away
from you. You might become very loving – they will be scared. Like you are
scared if someone now comes all loving to you. Have you noticed how many on
this planet get condemned for their love, for their consciousness? How many
Masters died condemned for their love and consciousness? Even this one that
everybody is praying for, this one you call Jesus, this one you called “the
messenger of love” – you have nailed him on a cross. Strangely enough you
nailed him on a cross and now you pray for him, pray to him. It is a strange
absurdity. It is good to look the symbol that has been created to that. You put
a loving man, a man whose only message was about love, about intimacy, about
family, about a very simple way of living in contact with nature, extremely
human. You nail him on a cross, put him dead there, and after that you use it
as a symbol for love. What a strange information you give out to the world.
What strange information to say that love is suffering, love is misery, love is
death. How come that no one has protested from the very start? How come that no
one from the very start has said no? There is a simple answer – fear. Religion imposed
fear. And this is one example among many.
So yes, you have fear. It doesn’t belong to you. Trusting
the inner intelligence of love in you can set off a revolution. In that
revolution there will be no fight, there will be good laughter at the face of
the fear – how ridiculous it is. How can you be afraid of your own nature? If
the moon would come to you saying: I am so afraid of light, what can I do? I am
pretty sure you would answer laughing, because you would see how ridiculous it
is. So I am a little bit polite with you, I don’t laugh at you, though I really
do laugh inside. Your fear is ridiculous and I do understand you have been
caught in it, you have been contaminated with it, not knowing how to get rid of
it. I give you some understanding, some questioning. Look deeply into it. I
would like to all of you to hear that:
you have no reason to be afraid of anything. Be alert. There are dangers
on this planet, it is true, but you don’t need fear…” Pema Transmission, 25 November 2015, Netherlands.
I wish for the year we gather the courage to face our fear
to love and consciously set up an inner revolution to free our love in order to
manifest a totally new way of relating based on love & consciousness.
With love and gratitude,
Pema Gitama