What is fear?
Is fear time?
You understand?
Time being that which has happened yesterday
and that which might happen tomorrow
- you understand? -
which is time. Is that the cause of fear?
Go into it slowly, let's go into it slowly.
Because when we have finished observing fear this morning
it must end so completely
that you have no psychological fears at all.
Then you are a rational, sane human being.
Is fear a movement of thought?
You understand?
That is, there has been fear in the past,
there is the memory of that, the remembrance of that
and the remembrance is a movement of thought.
Right? Which again is the movement of knowledge.
Right?
And this knowledge is stored up in the brain
and this knowledge is 'me' - right?
When I say I am attached to you,
I am attached to you because you are the audience
and I derive great pleasure from it
because I can talk to you, fulfil myself, all that nonsense.
And that gives me a great sense of fulfilling.
So thought has experienced this sense of power.
That thought then says, 'If I let this go I am frightened,
I am nothing'. Right?
So is fear the cause of 'me', I?
Go into it, sirs. This is a very serious thing we are saying.
As long as there is this central entity
with its self-centred activity, which is: desire,
attachment, greed, you will always have fear.
Right?