Fear

With so much to be fearful of these days; global warming, financial crises, and now
the refugee crisis, its a good time to look at fear is it real? Is there an alternative?
You will have to drop fear. And if it is a question of choosing between the inner
feeling and the fear, choose the inner feeling. Dont choose the fear. So many
people have chosen their religion out of fear, so they live in a limbo. They are
neither religious nor worldly. They live in indecision.
Fear is not going to help. Fear always means the fear of the unknown. Fear always
means the fear of death. Fear always means the fear of being lost, but if you really
want to be alive, you have to accept the possibility of being lost. You have to accept
the insecurity of the unknown, the discomfort and the inconvenience of the
unfamiliar, the strange.
"That is the price one has to pay for the blessing that follows it, and nothing can be
achieved without paying for it. You have to pay for it: otherwise you will remain
fear-paralyzed. Your whole life will be lost.
Osho, Yoga: The Science of Living, Talk #4
But fear is natural, isnt it?
I know fear is natural! But dont get caught by it. Leave it aside. Move in spite of it.
Always remember: the difference between a courageous man and a coward is not
that the courageous man has no fear and the coward has fear no. That is not the
difference. Both have fear! In the same proportion. Then where is the difference?
The difference is that the courageous man goes in spite of the fear, and the coward
stops because of the fear. Both have fears!
Osho, Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind, Talk #4
The banks about to foreclose and I just lost my job and Im scared.
If you can find a courageous man who has no fear, then how will you call him
courageous? He will be a machine, not a man. Only machines dont have fear. But

you dont call machines courageous. How can you call a machine courageous?
Courage simply means that something is happening in spite of the fear. The fear is
there, the trembling is there, but it is not stopping you, you are not being blocked
by it. You use it as a stepping-stone. Shaking, trembling, but still you go into the
unknown.
Osho, Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind, Talk #4
Shaking and trembling in my boots, and then I get angry with myself for being a
wimp!
Life should be surrounded by love, not by fear. It is fear that creates anger. It is fear
that ultimately creates violence. Have you watched? Fear is only a feminine form of
anger and anger is a masculine form of fear. Fear is a passive form of anger and
anger is an active form of fear. So you can change fear into anger very easily, and
anger into fear very easily.
I say, You just try! And it becomes a revelation even to them. If they can beat the
pillow in real, hot anger, immediately fear disappears, because the same energy
turns and becomes active.
Osho, The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 4, Talk #7
So just get out there and get on with it, right?
Courage will kill you as much as fear, but fear will simply kill you without giving you
a new life. Courage will give you a new life. Choose courage always choose
courage.
Osho, Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind, Talk #4

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