want to become a great writer. I feel if I could write, my life would be happy. So I want to write. But something happens to me; I get paralysed and for the rest of my life I am frightened, I am frustrated, I feel I have not lived. So that becomes my fear.

So the brain cells have created a pattern and those brain cells refuse to create another pattern, which may be uncertain.

When you see that you are a part of fear, not separate from it—that you are fear—then you cannot do anything about it; then fear comes totally to an end.

The now contains all time, which means the present holds the past, the future, and the present. So we can listen to this very carefully, not only with the hearing of the ear, but listen to the word and go beyond the word, see the actual nature of fear, and not just read about fear. Watching becomes so tremendously beautiful, sensitive, alive.

Fear comes in, does it not, when you want to do something and you are prevented from doing it? That is one type of fear.

actual happening of the effects of fear?

Where there is self-interest there must be fear, and all the consequences of fear. Then one asks again: Is it possible to live in this world where self-interest is predominant?

is only a mind that is free from occupation of any kind that has tremendous energy. That may be one of the factors that may dissipate fear.

So our concern is not how to be rid of fear, that’s one of our fallacies. But if we can go, delve deeply, into the nature of fear, then we shall be able to be free of it entirely.