For many people, fear is a constant companion. Not completely paralyzing fear, just the low-level anxiety that everyone will judge you for your actions or that you’ll fail. It’s an emotion that’s there to protect us from real danger, but which has been over-activated by our environment. Sometimes this is just an inconvenience but at other times it can completely prevent us from doing things that we really want to do.
It is likely that to some degree everyone experiences this feeling, even if we don’t always admit it or even recognize it in ourselves. It’s the little voice in the back of our heads that says, “I could never do that”.
In many ways, Buddhist practice is about confronting those little voices in our head, seeing what they need, and inviting them in for tea. Can we do that for these hidden fears? Even though it’s scary? Payton brought this topic to the Sangha this Sunday accompanied by a recorded talk from Andrea Fella.
You can listen to Andrea’s talk here: https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/10958
