Fear
What is the nature of fear? How do we handle it? Here are a few thoughts to kindle your imagination.
In Frank Herbert's *Dune*, we find this slogan from the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood:
I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Here is Dharmavidya David Brazier, writing in Tricycle magazine:
I have found greater peace, sanity, and spiritual consolation in the more pragmatic approach of starting with things as we find them. It’s a fact that we get frightened, and simply exerting more and more willpower to overcome our fright, or posing as though we’re unaffected by it, does not send the fear away.
Again in Tricycle, this time from Josh Korda:
The solution is to develop anxiety tolerance—to learn how to observe and hold our felt experience, which involves the ability to greet and observe our most uncomfortable and inconvenient feelings with “unconditional friendliness.” This kind of mindfulness means we can provide a safe container for our fear and soften it into a manageable state.
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