The Wisdom of Insecurity

 Instead of trying to deny the flow of change and living in conflict, we can understand it deeply and live in harmony with the seasons of life. Instead of creating "solid" things, solid relations, a solid unchanging world to try to hold onto, we can let go and open up to the actual truth of each changing moment. This is learning to live by what Alan Watts called 'The Wisdom of Insecurity' ". Page 171

Jack Kornfield

We are not, no matter how much we try, going to find security and fulfillment  in solid things because there are no "solid" things.  Every thing, absolutely everything in this world is  moving, changing, coming and going. We cannot hold onto it.  Trying to is like grasping for falling rocks and debris in hope they will stop our fall when we slip off a cliff. What we need to do is recognize how we, as well as everything around us, is in movement, changing, dying.  We cannot grasp any of it.

There is great wisdom in this...great relief.  When we stop trying to grasp all this moving stuff, stop trying to make it into something it isn't , stop trying to find solidity where none exists we fall into what is.  It is from there where we can find a spaciousness and a freedom that cannot be experienced in anyway but directly. When we accept that life is not something we can find "solidity and security" we understand  that:

...each moment is a manifestation of the empty, unpossessable nature of reality. page 180

All is well in my world. 

Joseph Goldstein & Jack Kornfield ( 2001) Seeking the Heart of Wisdom. Shambala Classics: Colorado