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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">...what is pleasing gives rise to fear. One who is freed from what is pleasing, who feels no grief, what has he to fear?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Affection</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">gives rise to grief; affection gives rise to fear. One who is freed from affection, who feels no grief, what has he to fear?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Attachment </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">gives rise to grief; attachment gives rise to fear. One who is freed from attachment, who feels no grief, what has he to fear? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Desire</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">gives rise to grief; desire gives rise to fear. One who is freed from desire, who feels no grief, what has he to fear? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Craving</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">gives rise to grief; craving gives rise to fear. One who is freed from craving, who feels no grief, what has he to fear?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/pleasure#p4</ref></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">It always seems to me that the reasons usually given for becoming wise are poor reasons: "Don't do this, it will bring you suffering; don't do that, it will give birth to fear in you"... and the</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">consciousness dries up</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">more and more, it hardens, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">because it is afraid of grief, afraid of pain.</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/pleasure#p12</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Love and hatred, hope and fear, grief and joy all have their founts in this one source. We like, love, welcome, hope for, joy in whatever our nature, the first habit of our being, or else a formed (often perverse) habit, the second nature of our being, presents to the mind as pleasant, priyam; we hate, dislike, fear, have repulsion from or grief of whatever it presents to us as unpleasant, apriyam. This habit of the emotional nature gets into the way of the intelligent will and makes it often a helpless slave of the emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and government of the nature. This deformation has to be corrected. By getting rid of desire in the psychic prana and its intermiscence in the emotional mind, we facilitate the correction. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p7</ref></u>
== How to deal with Vital Fear ==