The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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You know, we're afraid of what's going to happen or maybe have this fear of failure.

We don't try new things.

We don't kind of like stretch ourselves, put ourselves in unfamiliar settings, try for different jobs

or make changes or something like this because we have fear of failure.

Fear of endings, maybe we're awkward around when something ends and it's time to say goodbye

and just leave or we hold on too tightly or don't want to even just

deal with it when a coworker leaves or somebody moves away or whatever this is, there's like this uncomfortableness, this fear of

endings, or this fear of, I want to say not being in control, but we're really not in control as much as we think we are,

but kind of maybe fear of like just the feeling of not being in control. Of course we want things to go the way that we want them to go and

this fear of maybe feeling unworthy.

Of course, everybody's worthy, being unworthy doesn't actually exist,

but doesn't mean people don't feel that way.

I feel like, okay, in order to be worthy, I have to succeed or serve or,

or, you know, I have to do something.

It's really, if we kind of like want to look at it in this way, we'll see that there's fear is like so prevalent.

It's really having a big role in our lives.

This is part of the reason why fear is something to look at and become familiar with and learn to work with.

Last week I talked about the F-E-A-R practice, the fair practice.

F is for a friend, kind of say like a B friend, the fear.

E is for explore the fear.

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