I am so afraid

From childhood, we are hurt. 

There is always the pressure, always the sense of being rewarded and punished. 

You say something to me that I get angry about and that hurts me- right?

So, we have realised a very simple fact that from childhood, we are hurt and for the rest of our lives, we carry that hurt- afraid of being hurt further or attempting not to be hurt, which is another form of resistance.

So, we are aware of these hurts and therefore create barriers around ourselves- the barrier of fear.

Can we go into this fear?

Can we go into it very, very deeply and see why human beings have put up with fear for thousands of years?

We see the consequences of fear- of not being rewarded, fear of failure, fear of weakness, fear of your own feelings.

Why do we put up with it? If something is wrong with our car, we take it in for a service!

Do we want help from someone who is free of fear?

In our all lives we seek help in various directions…..

Fear makes us shrink, apprehensive, wanting to escape from it = the escape becomes more important than the fear.

Think of a tree that has many branches; the branches are the various forms of fear- fear of darkness, fear of being alone, fear of not having money, fear of being judged, fear of dying and so on….. however if we never get the root of the tree, the root of the problem (cause) ….. we will never be free.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

A snippet from his book titled FEAR - 1995