Chapter 13

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, your position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See your self as the world; see the world as your self. When you love the world as your self, then you can care for all things. Be content with the way things are. When all that you see, you see with love, then all that you love, soon will you see. By identifying one's body with the body of the universe, the limitations of the individual body are transcended. This is Moksha.