Fear Must Be Dealt With Instantly, Or Else It Accumulates

**Note: Truth does not always sound pleasant. If the mind is not really peaceful now, it might not be a perfect moment to listen to this podcast, one has to be aware of the emotions or reactions that can block one from listenING ATTENTIVELY and with HUMILITY. This talk is a meditation practice. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without getting stuck in words, examine the mind in silence, not agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already part of true meditation.

Transcript

To understand life,

This tremendous thing,

One has to understand fear.

Because fear,

This living becomes difficult,

Challenging,

Then all cause fear in different forms in the living.

Many of the human activities are driven by fear.

All the mental challenges are all related to fear.

We rarely talk about it because we fear,

We fear to talk about fear.

Without dealing with it openly,

The fear is proliferated into each corner of life.

Beneath this superficiality of living,

The decency or whatever,

There is a tremendous fear.

There are so many different forms,

All kinds of individual fear from all kinds of small things.

Fear not to get,

Fear to lose,

Being afraid of other people's opinions,

Views,

Evaluations,

Fear not to achieve,

Fear to be nothing,

Fear to be ill,

Fear of the pain,

The suffering,

And also the fear of death.

The mind is trapped in incessant fear,

And we never look at it.

We just run away,

Escape into all kinds of entertainment,

Pleasure.

Without dealing with it instantly,

The fear keeps accumulating in different ways.

All behaviors are driven by fear in many bigger ways.

And the mind is also very good at using other people's fear to intimidate,

To bully,

To threaten,

It happens a lot in the workplace,

In many different situations,

In violence.

It is all because of fear.

Because of fear,

We become violent,

Aggressive,

And in fear,

There is no humanity at all.

Reviews

100 percent true. Be prepared. Rhythm of speech very rapid and not conducive to relaxation. But message is spot on for me. There is nothing to fear but fear itself. It drives humans into every kind of dysfunction.