Buddha - Conquer Fear, Become Free 

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It is not just fear that the Buddha conquered, it is his _susceptibility to any kind of future fear_ - he was completely free indeed

Pain is unavoidable, but we can avoid suffering, because the suffering is a product of our own mind not from outside. Buddha says ‘You can’t avoid the first arrow (pain), but can avoid the second arrow (suffering). If we believe there’s always a way to overcome suffering - fear of suffering can be eliminated. Fear of pain still remains anyway, it is somewhat necessary actually.

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” Frank Herbert- Dune

Here's what I understood: "Sh*t happens, and you're gonna be okay :)" Thanks, super helpful!

“If you fear something, you’re controlled by that thing.” This sentence changed my life truthfully. It got trapped in my head and always pops up when my anxiety creeps up on me. It helped me take back my power and show up even if I’m scared. Very relieving and quite exciting.

I've always been telling myself: "If I can't control negative things, why should I bother thinking about them now?" Think about things you can control and things that will surely happen.

I was going through a mental breakdown yesterday. I mostly consider myself a mentally strong person, I can’t explain how perfect your posts’ timing was. It helped me realize that fear doesn’t have to control me, and the whole thing about a tyrant being behind the sword hits home, I don’t wanna be controlled by fear. Thank you for the presentation! And for taking the time to make this content, you literally changed my life!

I got few takeaways from this 1- Be in the mindset of "come what may, I can handle it" 2-Why has a problem come to you? because only you can handle it. The next time your mind worries you with fear of the future, tell it "If it comes to me, I can very well handle it" No pain, trouble, problem or challenge is thrown at you which you cannot handle or manage.

“Pain is necessary and bearable.” So POWERFUL. This statement explains everything. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Once we truly understand this, we can be free. My takeaway- that the goal is not to try to avoid pain, rather try to embrace it and learn from it… if we can manage to do this, all suffering will dissolve. Thank you for sharing this enlightening content. 🙏🏼

As a fellow lover of wisdom, your channel is severely underrated! The concepts you explore on this channel would truly help heal the world and lead one to greater success in all aspects of life.

"There is no fear in love, perfect love drives out fear. Fear has to do with punishment, he who fears has not been made perfect in love."

"I will not follow fear within the world. Humanity is governed by waves of fear that draw people here and there, waves of fear that dominate their actions, their thinking, their conclusions, their beliefs and their assumptions. Do not follow the waves of fear that move across the world. Allow yourself to observe the world from this point of stillness and certainty. In this way, you will be able to contribute to the world and not be its victim only. You are here to give, not to judge, and in stillness you are without judgment upon the world. Recognize, then, the waves of fear, but do not let them touch you, for in Knowledge they cannot touch you because Knowledge is beyond all fear." (Steps to Knowledge, Marshall Vian Summers)

"I'm gonna explore that idea through a dialog" TRIGGEREDDDDDDDDD

I have overcome alot of fears by repetitive fear scenarios. At first it looks true, but when it repeats, I can see the illusion of fear.

As a guy who came from a harsh Family, i catch the pain than running away from it, because of that i learned how to be fearless of everything and more able to understand other people's perspective openly

i found it in my religion, ikhtiar(efforts), tawakal(acceptance and let fate decided), god never give pain of fate that you cant bear

Wow. Pain is necessary and bearable. And I can accept that. I feel so much freedom in that inner standing and realization

if you guys are critical-minded enough, you will see that most of the arguments in this video are equivocal. Fear is instinctive and healthy, what matters is how you react to it .

“Anger, hatred, fear are destructive emotions that destroy inner peace”.

For years I have lived in fear. A crippling fear of loosing control, specially of myself. A fear of loosing everything that felt important to me like my reputation, my desired accomplishments or even my loved ones. But with time I have discovered that importance and fear off loss is an illusion of the mind that is trying to control everything, because of past negative experience. Is like the mind is always trying to prepare you for the worst outcome, so it projects you in negative scenarios or makes you remember past events that made you feel in a certain way, so you become obsess on finding the solution to your negative emotions ironically bringing those emotions back to you because you are not letting go of them. you don't trust source energy, you deny a higher power that can restore you, just like when you get a cut in you skin that heals with time you are not letting time heal you, instead you are going against the flow of time that can only manifest as now. you need to let go of the energy that you are holding in your body so what you want can be manifested. But the mind. The mind is tricky. it creates tension. not that tension is all bad tension can be exciting if used wisely by applying focused and constructive thinking but there most be a balanced, between the being and the doing of things. If the mind were to be a magician, fear of loosing control is its greatest illusion yet, because there is no control in trying but in letting go, that is were true control lives. just like this words that flow through me and around me. like a winded spirit that have just escaped the prison of resistance, this are words of time. Why? why have I waited son long for this freedom? perhaps. perhaps it is time what determines everything. for this I go just like the wind of this words and leave with the burning question till i meet again with myself in the future. _ Noelkinz

Everything we go through is temporary so is our human body. This is why fear or desire shouldn't be given importance if we want to conquer our own fate but be friends with it instead ✨

I agree to an extent. Fear is there to prevent pain or death. Irrational fear is not good for you. However if you see a bear, or a man with a gun or anything life threatening/potentially painful, fear alerts your entire system to be prepared. You can feel fear and still choose to be brave and calm and focused.

whenever i feel fear i always watch this video because this video is just perfect

Inevitable isn’t necessary; but processing is. Sometimes things haunt us when we can’t accept they happened, denied in our brains. I have that. It’s made me ashamed of myself at the most fundamental level of even existing. Inflicting pain on yourself won’t make you stronger, it’s just a product of ironically, escaping what was unacceptable. If anything, it makes you all the more hurt and more sensitive. Think of it this way; when you don’t treat your pipes well, you clog them, they fill up and then they cause leakages and they’re infested with toxicity. That’s just like your emotions which you keep pressing down. They’ll show themselves in ugly ways and people will leave you because you can’t accept yourself. Having a sense of self, confidence, stability, requires a lot of gratefulness and humility. Instead of a crazy high expectation of yourself which just fuels your hatred for all that you are. It’s like.. you can’t accept you aren’t perfect, it bothers you too much do you just keeping pushing and breaking and you don’t grow; you regress. For whatever you may have. To be without a hair of shame is really the pinnacle; to think we were all children, and forgot. People who can take criticism and can handle their emotions with discipline are people who are healthy at the core. Happy, fulfilled and confident people.

Fate is GOD, Our Teacher, guiding us to evolve into greatness - through choices we can make. What a wonderful opportunity! So much thankful! Love!

Its not bad to have fear, its natural, bad is your fear that controls you and clouds your mind, heart and soul, listen in your fear, accept it, understand it and then overcome it -Golden

لا يكلف الله نفسا إلا وسعها ❤

It’s important to consider that fear is not just in the mind- it’s in the body. Humans are hard-wired with specific parts of the brain and endocrine system to produce fear as a survival tool. When the brain perceives a threat, it triggers a hormone response- essentially drugging you with hormones that make instant, energetic reactions possible. This is the reason a 70 year old woman can lift a car off of a baby. This is how people are able to run for their lives. Perhaps attachment to the idea of life is a problem. We are hard-wired to survive, but we are also emotionally attached to the idea. Considering the body’s determination to survive, fear is very useful if you’re living in constantly in situations that are immediately dangerous to your physical body. Unfortunately, our brains do a poor job of differentiating between immediate physical threat and prolonged emotional threat. Fear causes suffering when one encounters prolonged emotional fear. Fear in those situations can best be reduced to the intensity of a phone notification. It’s your body telling you your perception has encountered threat. I believe you can negotiate with fear. That you can use the body’s natural expression of fear best by making decisions about its intensity. Think of your fear as an internal person. Their job is to ring an alarm bell when they perceive threat, then dump the adrenaline cocktail if they consider it a threat to survival. You can negotiate what qualifies as a threat. You can show your fear when it is useful and when it is reaching past its usefulness, causing suffering. It also pays to mention that having experienced fear creates connection by developing the ability to experience compassion for others who suffer from it. I think fear and anger are as biologically unavoidable as having blood or a liver. I think when we try to amputate parts of ourselves, we become less healthy. Perhaps an approach of acceptance, boundaries, and negotiation would cause less suffering. Please feel free to argue this point, as I’m exploring and would appreciate others’ perspectives.

So basically, fear will always give you pain, however, by letting yourself bear that pain, you gain knowledge, the more you learn, the more you can avoid suffering, thus attaining freedom. Fear blinds us from taking action and staying in our comfort zone. It’s an illusion that stagnates our growth.

I am watching this crying because this one video has answers to so many things I am struggling with. you did not talk about any of my problems but you still solved them.

He actually conquered every emotion

I watch fight club last night. And i can't tell how grateful i am to discover it only after i learned about philosophy.

The dialogue idea which you present in your videos is just brillant, it feels like I am talking to the buddha. Once again thankyou for such an amazing video. Keep up the good work dude✌

so deep. i am just speechless how it hit my mind at the end that it is necessary and bearable and the way it is said that my mind accepted and understood and convinced !

I barely comment on RU-vid videos, i but i have to say that this video completely changed my life if you take the time and study it. Thanks a ton for making it free.

"with all due respect...that sounds dumb" floored me

Honestly, It is what it is. Enlightening Episode 🙌🏽

What a dialectic effort to reach a critical and of course a reasonable conclusion! Totally lit ✨ 🇧🇩

for most common people like you and me who aren't on a journey of enlightenment, fear is necessary - healthy - as human beings living in a physical world. the key is control of that fear, awareness and understanding..not giving into it. fear is like anything else, not a dark unfathomable pit.

That’s absolutely the best explanation for fear and how to overcome it ! Thank you 🙏🏻

Beautifully made! The narration was impeccable and cent percent syllogistic

Recently, I've been meditating on this as well. Or, more like, was forced to do so by Fate. And what I've understood is that you have to be willing to let go of life in order to be free from fear. In other words, you cannot be clinging to life, to survival, and ever be free.

I am truly free . People have so many wrong notions about what freedom true freedom really is.

I just want to let you know that you gave me wisdom for life, you saved me from a really rough patch, and changed my whole perspective of who I am and how I perceive life. I will forever be thankful for your channel!!! Thank you!

Thank you for this video. In keeping with Buddha’s teaching, I would say that your conclusion makes sense to me in this way: 1) The first noble truth , also called the truth of suffering, which is life/existence is suffering because all things are impermanent, isn’t exactly the same as pain being necessary per se, but one can interpret this as “if one exists then one necessarily has to experience pain and dissatisfaction” 2) the third noble truth, aka the truth of the cessation of suffering, says that there is an end to pain and dissatisfaction, so in a way, all pain is ultimately bearable because there is an end to it; we gain wisdom about our relationship with suffering, and how we can let go and gain freedom from it, then ultimately fear will not dominate us...but easier said than done! 😊🙏

I think that those two assumptions about pain do not hold true: 1) pain isn't always necessary; 2) pain isn't always bearable. But at the same time, fear indeed limits your ability to learn because you are fixed on the sources of fear. I find it more reasonable to feel fear in dangerous situations and got out of it when it is over to learn from experience.

I love your videos man, I came here like three years ago tryng to getting better grades and being more productive, and here we are now, getting into deeper quests of knowledge and freedom through phyllosophy. Thanks a lot.

Thank you honestly thank you for this video Ive been always fearful for long time , Ive been always trying to protect myself from pain for a long time but , i realize that this has been holding me back for so long, I have so resentful to the world . I realise that all pain fate gives is bearable and it is also to make us grow also. "Trough the trials of fate, True Iron is forged"

THIS VIDEO SAVED MY LIFE, THANK YOU 💕👑

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune

Thank you for this 🙏🏻 been living in fear for 3 years now due to physical symptoms. This is a wonderful lesson🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Best video I watched on RU-vid until now.

The two things said on this video that when fate gives pain its only when it is necessary and bearable is absolutely true. Being a Muslim myself my mother has always preached me that Allah Tala gives only that much of pain which His creation that is us, can bear, which consequently gives the strength to bear the pain. :)

In recent years, fear has always been in the back of my mind. Totally agree that fear will prevent you from learning knowledge. My take from this is that it would be better to eliminate fear and see the world for what it is. If I fear something it better be a real danger instead of a shadow. Sometime it's not that scary once you have a better look of it. Doubt and uncertainty creates fear

Learning is to suffer and suffering is learning, we can avoid learning or suffering but in death.

Have been dealing with chronic pain for some years, that was a very good video to watch.. thanks

Thank you for making me AWARE of my fear....now it's my time to be brave enough to NOT to ACT in the mode of fear

Fear exists when you attatch to outcome. You hope it will go one way, and are fearful it will go another way. Therefore you remove fear, by removing attachment to the outcome. This is a great video on how to do that process. Great video as always!

This feels just as valuable of a lesson as anything I’ve ever been given from Judeo Christian religion. This is power.

As long as we fear something,we're controlled by that thing👏👏👏

Wow!! I LOVE this! So fascinating! I recently read the dart discourse. I wanna read more Buddha now.

On the other side of it Fear is very important and useful. If someone doesn't feel fear they should go to a doctor because they don't have healthy responses. Although a misunderstood and misused fear is bad, fear is never the enemy if you want an enemy look in the mirror

Tmrw is my interview, this popped up on my feed, Now i am less anxious, as i was. Take this as a sign , to progress without fear.

I just did something that I feel that most people would be afraid to do, and I did it without any fear and feel stronger for it even though I failed.

Only 4 minutes in, and this is my favourite video from this channel. I recently started getting anxious about my exams, and all that did was make things worse. I will conquer my fear of future failure!

There's a reason why people fear. It protect themselves. Fear means you love yourself. And I agree with the part where we must control the fear. Without fear, we would be dead already

I’ve been told that Anger is actually the fear of an imagined injustice or imagined pain, so, the expectation of injustice.

I've been approaching similar conclusions lately, and this video complements my growth perfectly. I have a calling in me to stop living in fear. The question is: I'm now realizing that fear has been my Bible throughout my whole life. I've established relationships, goals, habits and most of my personality based on fear. I'm now realizing that something that seemed like just another cute self improvement tip is actually a major shift in my life. I will have to change the way I perceive and react to everything. How will I end up from this? Life will not be what I know as of now. This could make me fearful. I won't anymore.

At 5:26 this thing that we are free to choose actions but not results is also beautifully explained in Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta.... That enhances this understanding to a deeper level🌸 🌟Lord Krishna says- कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन । मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भुर्मा ते संगोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥ You have a right to perform your prescribed karma/duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your karma/duty. - Bhagavad Gita, Chapter II, Verse 47 I hope it gives you a new perspective to ponder or contemplate and gives you a better understanding 🙌🏻 Also if you wanna enhance your understanding of karma further you can read the whole chapter 2 & 3. And try to learn from a authentic source...👍🏻 Have a beautiful day 🌻😇 Hare Krishna 🙏🏻

First - necessary for what? Second - how can one accept that pain is "necessary" for anything/anyone if she/he also needs to accept that regardless of how they react to it or which conclusions they make, the fate can always bring more pain? In this context I would rather describe it as "unavoidable", something which is just there as one of the defining materials in life. The good news - based on this logic, pleasure should be just as fundamental and unavoidable. Regardless, thank you for the video and your thought-provoking take on this question.

Thank you for this video. I can say that whatever happens, happens for the good only.

Fear is good too in some situation. If it doesn't have survival advantage, fear will not be part of us. It's not about stop fearing but to understand and acceptance of the fear.

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.” - Jim Rohn

This is absolutely profound! I deeply resonate with your interpretation. I’m definitely going to watch this a few more times so I can fully capture the message! Thank you!

I believe that fate is only a consequence of action. Being in a car accident field is the consequence of going to that place from the beginning. Getting sick by another person is the consequence of not observing that we're getting close to that person or that person is getting close to us or that we seat in a bus, in a place where we form a direct passage for the disease. I took your examples, what I've learned from the video + my own judgement and experience. Everything can be prevented, if we don't fear, cause when we're occupied by the stories and films we form, we don't leave at the moment, to actually see whether we're safe or in danger. So fate is a consequences of how much we're aware + our actions and state of mind, rather than an external thoughts. Those involved in the car accident that could hurt you, but thanks to awareness you weren't that near or you escaped rapidly and on time, doesn't change the fact that their lack of awarenes of their own actions did produce the accident. The same goes for the sick person; you avoided being sick, but his own lack of self care made them sick. And therefore, fate is just the pure consequence of our thoughts and actions, which makes pain, in fact, avoidable, by past experience and present emotions and actions that we choose to take.

Thank you for these videos, for helping make the world a better place, and helping people grow into who they truly want to be.

"Perfect love casts out all fear." ~holy bible~

Life is uncertain, that's a fact that we need to face, and I like the idea of this video as it shows us just how everything is a part of nature. One cannot reject nature for he then rejects himself. I also think life is preparation, and the person who focuses on becoming the best person possible and looks for the lessons in his suffering will surpass any fear. Thank you, Much love from a growing RU-vidr

I be absolutely love these videos, they offer such clarity. The hardest battle is the battle of mind, learning more about the mind is key to winning. Thanks again.

This message is truly blessed, I'm very grateful for it.

I must not fear. Fear si the mind killer

To live in peace ,we must have inner peace . To have inner peace , we must have a clear conscience . When our conscience is clear and our mind at peace , we bring peace and bliss to those around us .

The ideas match so much with stoicism and you've explained it so succinctly. Thank you!

This is so BEAUTIFUL! it made me cry in a beautiful way. I am deep breathing and enjoying many of the videos you have posted. Thank you so very much for making these videos. I do appreciate it so much!

I've been taking a course in Existentialism and History of Buddhism this semester, it's such a coincidence that you're touching on Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and now Buddha. I don't know if you've come across it, but you might wanna take a look at no-self and the Heart Sutra. Love your videos!

I was taking notes on this and a thought came across my mind, could this also be said as experience is knowledge? fear holds you back from doing things and but once youe experience said thing, you have the knowledge of what happens, therefore you no longer fear what could happen

When I hike 5 minutes through the forest for water I literally look out for bears after different trees, imagine where they could be hiding and imagine they are there. Before I go to sleep I check if the gas cooker to make sure that it's off like 5 times, otherwise I am restless and can't go to sleep. Sometimes I get off the bed after I checked it and check it again. This video is very wise, I will try to apply what I've learned here.

This sounds very similar to what we learned. "God doesn't impose on any soul but to the extent it can bear"

SubhanAllah ♥️

*"All men die but not all men really live."* ~William Wallace.

In walking the steps of Buddha, I feel that it's not about collecting merits for the self, nor is it to worship , make offerings or to serve , a lord, a master or a god. Fear, is what makes most people pray and worship. Fear of losing the merits, and fear in light of the threats that we must make offerings or else. Normally we dedicate the merits to all sentient beings, but, in these troubled times when evil forces are attacking humanity, I'd rather dedicate the merits of my prayers to join the others who are also praying in this war against the evil forces. I picture my prayers rising up to the skies and joining the energy generated by people with the same intentions, sending the vibes back to the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, dharma protectors and warriors.

Lessen pain by learning laws of how things in the universe behave. Understand and believe all pain is necessary and bearable. -interpretation of bhudda

Can someone explain how the monk proves that the pain we receive is necessary? I feel like I missed a logical component

6:37 - This is the heart of the video. For all else, you can learn, understand, and accept. For these "...two things that have to be true to eliminate [this] fear", you must have faith. If you cannot accept these as fundamental to existence, the entire framework fails. If you seek fundamental truth uncoupled from faith... so do I.

May all beings be free from all suffering. Namaste🙏

I'm a Christian now but I was once a Buddhist and got to the point in my masters training where I could use meditation to perceive another dimension to contact and interact with spirit guides and learn from them, one of them claiming to be Set the Egyptian god of the desert, not to mention when I first met him he greeted me by trying to punch me and he in fact kicked my ass. Eventually my human master taught me to fight off demonic spirits by making them come to us and confronting them in a meditative state. In one confrontation a shining light saved me from full possession I believed it was my will overcoming the demon and I thought well these guys must be the good guys I mean were fighting evil right? and light is protecting me and I'm being told I can become a god this must be the truth I will become a god for god so I can be there for him like he has us. One night I'm watching RU-vid and I come across a video about a guy who said he was in an illuminati family and he wanted out or something and he said the Egypt god of death Anubis tired to kill him but Jesus Christ intervened and the man survived and became a Christian. I wasn't sure if it was true or not but it gave me a question, am I sure these beings and my master teaching me are really my allies I thought maybe Set would try and kill me if I decided to leave, his personality definitely didn't convince me he wouldn't. I continued researching and finding more things about it and I got less and less trusting worried in my mind that Set knew my change of heart I was terrified. I had become an enemy but I had nothing left in my life except the training and I once said if this training is a lie id end my own life. at night I cried once and prayed to every last god of the religions I knew and begged them to save me from this evil, I was desperate. Couple days later I was meditating in a park trying to center myself, and that's when it happened I heard a voice somehow say "I am the Christ Jesus, the one teaching you is a liar and those guides are demon just as you suspect, leave them accept my blood on the cross and I will protect you from them." I accepted on the spot. he then told me to head home and that about halfway home you will come across something on the ground that you have great interest in. and I am in a wheelchair mind you so he explained to me someone will be there to pick it up for me. I went home and halfway there I find a Doctor Who playing card, which I still have to this day. to my surprise I looked up and see someone walking towards me and I asked them to hand me the card and they did just as Christ told me. realizing the truth I was angry at my guide and my master they lied to me for years. that same night I meditated to confront Set myself and I attacked him and he nearly had me and that was when the golden armor of god formed on my body and then Set struggle to fight me at all he stood in front of me and looked over my shoulder with the look of horror and ran away. I turned to see Jesus standing there my mind was unable to see his face similar to the pillar of smoke Moses mentioned expect my mind had a modern take on it and just saw it burled out like on TV. Jesus has darker skin and his hair is shorter. and then I was a Christian and realized that time the light saved me from that demon wasn't me it was Jesus Christ he was there in secret the whole time. after a while of praying and research I found out what I was dealing with was a kundalini spirit it basically made me addicted to its teaching by giving me a dopamine hit it was like getting high it gave me visions so it drove me to trust it but Jesus broke me free from the lie so I follow him and believe in the blood of Christ. Buddha himself wants you to do the same they lied to him too don't be deceived by the Kundalini snakes they are deceivers. Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

The cave that you fear to enter,holds the treasure that you seek! (Joseph Campbell)

A way to practice overcoming fear, is to expose yourself to things you think are painful/annoying/etc. By choosing to put yourself in those kinds of scenarios, you should also have the power to take yourself out of them. A very basic way of showing control over your body and mind. And if you keep disciplined and train yourself more and more and expose you to your fear in your safe environment, you will learn, that fear is no longer controlling you. You are controlling your fear. For me - I had thalassophobia for the longest time. I decided, that I wanted to swim in the ocean and enjoy it. I practiced my swimming abilities, my breathing technique and exposed myself to cold waters and the ocean in motion. It took me two years to rid the crippling fear, but know I can swim in open bodies of water (only the sea) and endure water temperatures down to 4 degree celcius. My acknowledgement, discipline and willpower were my greatest teachers. And know I know, that fear can be battled. I hope you will too.

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