One thing nasty traditions often have in common with nobler ones, is a hardcore approach to dealing with fear: powerful techniques etc.
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Fear is an emotion that is fantastic for getting you out of dangerous situations, but usually it's triggered by petty problems.
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Because it's all-consuming, and most importantly, inhibiting, it does require a very strong response if you're ever supposed to get past it.
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go sit on corpses in graveyards while meditating.
Early Buddhists, 3 months in crematorium watching corpses burn.
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but here's the thing, you can't be scared and stay in loving-kindness/compassion. Solid enough in that, and fear doesn't touch you.
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without equanimity it's a shield w/depth, but trying to just have equanimity is FAR harder and much less enjoyable.
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