Fear Needs Dealing With, Not Escaping From

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Transcript

Fear exists in different forms.

Anger,

Anxiety,

All kinds of neurotic behaviors.

Fear is very subtle.

Where there's fear?

One can't feel free.

The fear makes one withdrawn,

Scared.

When a life is a bound by the fear,

The life is full of issues.

We can have a look at a few examples of the subtle fear in life.

Fear not to be successful.

Fear not to get achieved.

Fear not to become to be.

Fear to lose.

Fear being ill.

Fear death.

Fear not to be respected.

Fear the public opinions call men's views.

Fear to be hurt mentally.

In such a life which is based on thoughts,

There are incessant and numerous subtle forms of fear.

Without understanding the nature of fear,

The life is inevitably burdened by fear.

To live life free from fear requires one to investigate,

Not escape,

Not run away from it.

But look around the world.

Human beings have created,

Invented all kinds of gifts,

All kinds of ways to avoid fear.

All kinds of entertainment programs,

All kinds of TV,

News,

Whatever.

To absorb the self,

The ego,

For a while.

To forget the fear for a while.

But the fear still exists.

The more one escape,

Avoid the fear.

The more one feels fear.

A life which is full of escape is a life full of fear.

Unless we really sit down,

Really serious to investigate,

There's a tremendous thing in life.

Fear.

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