Fear of monsters in the closet is an early stage of the human psyche / ego / separate self.
"A monster's gonna get meeeeee, ma!"
"There's no such thing as monsters, honey."
"But I'm scared of them, mama!"
"Are you scared of your *toy* monster with the silly roar?
"No mommy... it isn't a *real* monster, it's plastic".
"What are you so scared of, honey?"
"I don't knowwwwwww... I'm just scared it'll get me".
The child's fear of big ugly monster hiding in the closet, is the child's desire for small, pretty, comforting mom who's right here with me.
The problem is *time*.
The child says "I got scared of the monster, and wanted you here with me.
What really happened is that the child felt a desire for her, and got scared.
Desire is an invasion of awareness by the psyche/self. It is foreign to
awareness, to reality. It should not be there at all, ever. It is "time", which does not exist. It is falsehood.
Desiring (lacking) what isn't present right now is utterly foreign to reality.
The sense of lack, of something missing, is the monster hiding in the closet that the child is afraid of.
Suddenly, "Absolute Presence" felt an absence. Something was missing. Something wasn't right. Reality was no longer real.
That was the monster hiding in the child's closet.
"A monster's gonna get meeeeee, ma!"
"There's no such thing as monsters, honey."
"But I'm scared of them, mama!"
"Are you scared of your *toy* monster with the silly roar?
"No mommy... it isn't a *real* monster, it's plastic".
"What are you so scared of, honey?"
"I don't knowwwwwww... I'm just scared it'll get me".
The child's fear of big ugly monster hiding in the closet, is the child's desire for small, pretty, comforting mom who's right here with me.
The problem is *time*.
The child says "I got scared of the monster, and wanted you here with me.
What really happened is that the child felt a desire for her, and got scared.
Desire is an invasion of awareness by the psyche/self. It is foreign to
awareness, to reality. It should not be there at all, ever. It is "time", which does not exist. It is falsehood.
Desiring (lacking) what isn't present right now is utterly foreign to reality.
The sense of lack, of something missing, is the monster hiding in the closet that the child is afraid of.
Suddenly, "Absolute Presence" felt an absence. Something was missing. Something wasn't right. Reality was no longer real.
That was the monster hiding in the child's closet.