Fear, Thought and Action || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 I see a very close relationship between fear and thought.
00:04 Please, if you could elaborate on the relationship between fear and thought.
00:08 The house is on fire, the kid is inside, you're so afraid you'll lose the kid.
00:13 You stand outside and brood. Tell me, what would you do?
00:17 You would leap into action, you'd jump into the fire.
00:20 Instead of jumping into the fire, you would feel a foul scratching your forehead and your beard
00:24 and posing as a philosopher when the child is turning to ashes.
00:28 Sheer cunningness. Do you have any love? That's the question. Do you have any love?
00:33 The time, the energy that should have gone into concrete work
00:37 is instead squandered in open-ended and endless thought.
00:43 And to keep yourself morally defended, you say, you know, I'm thinking because I love that thing,
00:49 because I'm afraid of losing that thing. Had you really been afraid, you'd have worked.