Fear  (English, Paperback, Osho)

Fear: Understanding And Accepting The Insecurities Of Life guides the reader on the physical and spiritual aspects of fear. The author talks about what triggers the emotion of fear in people and urges the reader to develop a new relationship with it.

Summary Of The Book

Osho, in his book Fear: Understanding And Accepting The Insecurities Of Life, firstly explains to the readers about the many fears that plague the human mind. He also talks about the typical “fight or flight” response that is an instinctive nature of almost all living beings, particularly when faced with some kind of a physical threat. The book also talks about the psychological effects of both rational and irrational fears on the human mind.

Osho preaches that the only way to get out of one’s comfort zone and come face to face with the many insecurities and challenges that characterize life is to rationally understand one’s fears and learn to live with them by changing one’s perspective towards such fears and building a new relationship with them.

The ending of Fear: Understanding And Accepting The Insecurities Of Life lists a few experiments in meditation that help readers not view their fears negatively, but in a totally different light that would help them in perceiving such fears as opportunities to build greater trust and self-awareness.

About Osho

Osho was an Indian spiritual guru and mystic with thousands of followers from all over the world.

A few of his other books are The Heart Sutra, The Diamond Sutra, Zen: The Path of Paradox and The Orange Book.

Osho was born as Chandra Mohan Jain on December 11, 1931, in a village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh. In 1955, he completed his B. A. in Philosophy from the D. N. Jain College. Later in 1957, he earned his M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Sagar. In the 1960s, he travelled throughout India as a public speaker. In 1974, he set up an ashram in Poona that is now known as Osho International Meditation Resort. He died on January 19, 1990, due to a heart failure.