You Know What It Means To Be Nothing?

K devoted one of his talks at the Saanen (Switzerland) gathering that year (1975) to what he called a very serious matter - can there be total freedom from psychological fear? "If one is to be free of fear," he pointed out, "one must be free of time. If there was no time one would have no fear. I wonder if you see that? If there were no tommorow, only the now, fear, as a movement of thought, ends." Fear arises from the desire for security. "If there is complete psychological security there is no fear", but there can never be psychological security "if one is wanting, desiring, pursuing, becoming". He went on:

"...thought is always trying to find a place where it can abide, abide in the sense of hold. What thought creates, being fragmentary, is total insecurity. Therefore there is complete security in being absolutely nothing - which means not a thing created by thought. To be absolutely nothing means a total contradiction of everything you have learnt...You know what it means to be nothing? No ambitions - which does not mean that you vegetate - no aggression, no resistance, no barriers built by hurt?...The security that thought has created is no security. That is an absolute truth."