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F.E.A.R - False Expectations Getting Real

Have you heard the story of Zen Master and the dogs in the temple ? Once upon a time it happened that their was Zen master who was on his travelling to temples across various countries. While his travel to a temple in Himalayan Kingdom he walked through the temple gates and happened to see two ferocious black dogs not less than the hounds we fear at nights were chained to the iron grills of the temple entrance. They were straining the chains, their tongues were wagging, the saliva dripping from the mouth and barking so ferociously that one could hear their echoes in the temple. It was just the kind of sight which could instill fear in anybody's mind !
         "Don't worry master" the local guide said. "I know the dogs might look very scary but the chains are very tight and their is no way they could break free !". Then the master continued to walk into the long courtyard towards the main temple. Even as he was trying to concentrate on local guide narrating him about the history of temple, he kept looking back at the dogs. Their ferocious barking could be heard echoing inside the temple.
         And as he looked upon again to check at the dogs, he could not believe what his eyes saw. The dogs had broken the chains and were running towards him. Instantly the master started to run too. Directly towards the dogs! Yes, he began to run towards the dog's direction. And guess what happened next ? The dogs got surprised seeing the monk running towards them they quietly turned around and went back towards the gate!
          Symbolize those dogs with your fears in life, what we all tend to do went they confront us ? we run away from them in a hope that they will go away. Take a leaf from monk's book and try to confront your fears, embrace them and one day you would definitely conquer them! Many of us constantly fear to start a new thing in the fear of failure. We don't try to explore our abilities in fear that we might fail in it. We live a life of unfilled potential and remain mundane in life. "Break The cycle". Scared of public speaking ? Grab every opportunity to talk in public. Sacred that your business model will fail ? well give it a try once. Never mind the outcomes but one thing is guaranteed that your fear will vanish. 
         Someone once said FEAR is the acronym for "False Expectations Appearing Real". Once you understand this you come very near to achieve your dreams. Think it (Fear) as a wall between your Dreams and Happiness. And what we all tend to do ? We try to run away from that wall Instead of climbing it. Once we start climbing the wall you will discover that in fact the wall is a small hedge that we could easily climb onto. "Your fear grow only when you let it happen". 


    

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