How to transform terror?
One of Masters quotes from this morning stayed with me:
“Society is a group of people who come together with a shared agreement to resist transformation. They create rules to live by, and through that, discovery and living one’s uniqueness is forbidden.”
It landed clearly: society often looks like frightened people making a pact — let’s stop creativity, stop uniqueness, stop celebration, and squeeze life into a safe, grey box where nothing truly changes.
A question arises: can we see this collective consciousness objectively, without being entangled in it?
Master later pointed to how identity quietly seeks confirmation:
“When someone tries to make themselves ‘the one,’ others feel reduced — and the clever strategy is to do the opposite.”
The opposite is not shrinking or disappearing, but serving what is alive without inner commentary. When action is no longer about “me,” something more dignified appears: presence, respect, guardianship of the space.
Another key instruction was sharp:
“You must stay with you. Ninety percent of people you meet are trying to alter you. You will be projecting. Learn to show up as you are — without trying to control how the world sees you.”
This exposes a deep habit: using roles, innocence, or narratives to avoid being fully seen. Inner commentary is especially dangerous here — once believed, it always lies.
This stirred me: why am I not simply showing up in front of Master exactly as I am? How difficult or terrorising could it really be?
Master ended the day with one essential question:
What are you ready to meet — and transform?
Each person received a different instruction — rage, self-doubt, clarity. For me, the instruction was to stop normalizing terror, as if suffering itself gave meaning or depth.
One method Master offered was simple and radical: be nothing.
When nothing is claimed, nothing needs to be defended?
Could it be that we often think we are meeting fear in order to dissolve or transform it, while in reality we are clinging to it as identity. Why would it otherwise stay so persistently?
Seeing that mechanism directly may be the beginning of real transformation. I wish. 🙏
“Society is a group of people who come together with a shared agreement to resist transformation. They create rules to live by, and through that, discovery and living one’s uniqueness is forbidden.”
It landed clearly: society often looks like frightened people making a pact — let’s stop creativity, stop uniqueness, stop celebration, and squeeze life into a safe, grey box where nothing truly changes.
A question arises: can we see this collective consciousness objectively, without being entangled in it?
Master later pointed to how identity quietly seeks confirmation:
“When someone tries to make themselves ‘the one,’ others feel reduced — and the clever strategy is to do the opposite.”
The opposite is not shrinking or disappearing, but serving what is alive without inner commentary. When action is no longer about “me,” something more dignified appears: presence, respect, guardianship of the space.
Another key instruction was sharp:
“You must stay with you. Ninety percent of people you meet are trying to alter you. You will be projecting. Learn to show up as you are — without trying to control how the world sees you.”
This exposes a deep habit: using roles, innocence, or narratives to avoid being fully seen. Inner commentary is especially dangerous here — once believed, it always lies.
This stirred me: why am I not simply showing up in front of Master exactly as I am? How difficult or terrorising could it really be?
Master ended the day with one essential question:
What are you ready to meet — and transform?
Each person received a different instruction — rage, self-doubt, clarity. For me, the instruction was to stop normalizing terror, as if suffering itself gave meaning or depth.
One method Master offered was simple and radical: be nothing.
When nothing is claimed, nothing needs to be defended?
Could it be that we often think we are meeting fear in order to dissolve or transform it, while in reality we are clinging to it as identity. Why would it otherwise stay so persistently?
Seeing that mechanism directly may be the beginning of real transformation. I wish. 🙏
by Erik Soham
• 4 months, 3 weeks ago
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🔥wow I wish your wish comes true 🙏🏼 thank you for this sharing ♥️🙏🏼