(Readers Letters, Mercury News, 30th December, 2009)
"What will it take to stop next airline attacker?" Queries the headline in Monday's Mercury News (28-12-2009)
That's easy: Close down all the airports, Ground all the flights. Learn to walk, if the bridges are blown up, learn how to wade or swim.
And of course, live in fear and trembling unto death.
Ed Laurie
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JKrishnamurti:
What is fear? Fear is not an abstraction, it does not exist independently, in isolation. it comes into being only in relation to something. In the process of relationship, fear manifests itself; there is no fear apartment from relationship. Now what is it that you are afraid of?
Commentaries on Living (Second Series)
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear. The state of non-fear is not negation; it is not the opposite of fear nor is it courage. In understanding the cause of fear, there is its cessation; not the becoming courageous, for in all becoming there is the seed of fear. Dependence on things, on people, or on ideas breeds fear; dependence arises from ignorance, from the lack of self knowledge, from inward poverty; fear causes uncertainty of mind-heart, preventing communication and understanding. Through self-awareness we begin to discover and so comprehend the cause of fear, not only the superficial but the deep casual and accumulative fears. Fear is both inborn and acquired; it is related to the past, and to free thought-feeling from it, the past must be comprehended through the present. The past is ever wanting to give birth to the present which becomes the identifying memory of the “me” and the “mine,” the “I.” The self is the root of all fear.
The Book of Life March 31
