Free
from Fear by Release of Anxiety:
The young deity
Subrahma once asked the
Buddha:
Always frightened is this Mind!
Always troubled
is this Mind!
Always agitated is this Mind!
About present problems...
About future problems...
If there is a release from this
worry & anxiety,
please then explain it to me
right now!
Whereupon the Blessed Buddha simply declared:
I see no other
real safety for any living being,
except from control of the senses,
except
from the relinquishment of all,
except from awakening into Enlightenment!
Source: The Grouped Sayings of the
Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya I 54
http://store.pariyatti.org/Connected-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1379.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/sn/index.html
More on systematic
relinquishment:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Leaving_All_Behind.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Not_Resisting_Anything.htm
