Finally I have a terrible fear of death.
I won't be able to take it off my mind.
I'm scared I will no longer exist when I die.
It keeps my heart racing all day, makes me so anxious.
Can you help me?
I can help you help yourself.
Many ways I can do that.
You could start by reading the book I wrote, a little book on how to meditate.
You could contact me by email.
The best thing is you could come out here and start practicing.
But the question is help you do what?
Help you
remove the fear or help you to rise above it.
I mean, that's kind of a silly way to put it, no?
What I mean to say is you're better off not trying.
If your intention is to do away with the fear, then you're going to have a problem.
And so rather than recommending, rather than trying to help you get rid of the fear, I would help you to see the fear and to live with the fear until you can understand the fear and overcome the fear.
Because we cling to things like fear.
We cling to all of our emotions.
and use the clinging as a substitute for actually doing something, as a solution.
I get stuck on the fear, stuck on the emotions.
So look at them.
Stop clinging to them.
You have to change the way you think about this.
In every case, we have to change the way we think about it.
Stop thinking of it as a problem.
Stop thinking about the problem at all.
Stop thinking about death.
Start thinking about the fear, which is the last thing we look at.
We never think to look at the reaction.
And that's where the problem is.
The problem is not in death.
The problem is in your reaction to it.
There's no problem with death.
There's a problem with fear.
So instead of thinking about death or trying to figure out how to solve this problem of death, figure out how to solve the problem of fear.
That's really what you want, no?
No, I mean the problem is that probably you want to not die, right?
You can't have that.
But what you should want is to not fear.
Die without fear.
So
Try to learn about the fear.
Don't get rid of it.
Learn about it.
Understand it.
Once you understand the fear, your problem will be solved.
Let the fear be.
Let it be there.
So you're afraid of death.
Deathly afraid.
Deathly afraid of death.
It's not really a problem.
When you look at it, you'll see it's just useless.
It's meaningless.
It's pointless.
You'll ask yourself, why am I afraid?
What a silly thing.
how pointless, how absurd, how irrational, and to give it up.