The third basic fear is the fear of death. This fear is the most obvious and the most devastating.

"Remember: you're going to die!" It's a brutal fact for everyone. Death is so unquestionable.

Augustine said, "Everything is uncertain, only death is certain." "The power of death will write off the meaning of all the living: every living person is dying, preparing to die, and finally entering into the bosom of death without exception.

Since I am destined to die, and death is not my master, it can come to me at any time, what is the point of my life?

The fear of death is in fact the questioning of the meaning of life, and it is the most fundamental question that puzzles almost all philosophers.

There must be too few people who, like Socrates, look forward to death as a blessing, because it requires the courage to die for the truth.

Plato's thought originated in the uncompromising death of Socrates. For Socrates, the dialogue with the truth – the words

"Logos" - can make him ignore a certain terrible nature of death, and even when the man in charge of the poison admonishes Socrates to speak as little as possible, otherwise the poison will attack more slowly and he must take two or three servings, Socrates replied, and prepared wine,

"Might as well make two or three servings." Socrates conquered the fear of death, but the people of this age have lost it

In the pursuit of the "Tao", what else can he use to resist this fear? Fear means a threat, a threat to us from time, and a threat to the self that comes with the defects of the ego, which has to do with sin, because

"The wages of sin is death." In Genesis, after Adam ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he received God's curse: "You will surely die!" This shows that man's fall is a fall into the constraints of time, and death means that time is a limit on man.

The threat of time is not only that it will end our lives, but what is more terrifying is that it may also carry out this end in advance in a * way, such as disease, calamity, etc.

Because there is a desire in every human being to be infinite and to attain eternity (to have children and write books and theories in order to continue one's life), people want death to come later, and in fact man is unable to do this, the fear of death arises, because it is an uninvited guest who may knock on the door at any moment.

Another reason for the fear of death is that people are powerless to take responsibility for what they have done in life. The human conscience desires righteousness and holiness, but there is no goodness in the human flesh, and living in sin gives a person a kind of pain of self-conviction for righteousness.

Because man cannot face death with his own holy knowledge, the fear of death is actually the fear of judgment after death.

How can we alleviate fear and gain the power to control it? I think the first thing is that people must be aware of their own limitations and inadequacies, so as to maintain a reverence for the unknown world, rather than hastily seeing themselves as the ultimate and thinking that they can bear everything.

The real situation is that man is placed in a world that he cannot control, and can no longer break out of the cocoon of fear by his own strength, he must admit that man does not live by himself, he must believe that there is a greater being than himself in this world, and only this greater survivor can protect the survival of man, and the meaning of man's life can be confirmed, and we can overcome it in this way

"Impersonal things", right

"Non-existent", right

The fear of "death". This fact will become more and more acute, because at the end of the century man has come to an extremely fragile situation, and he can no longer find the confidence he had in his previous years, or rather, many cruel facts of history have proved that it is possible for man to become as savage and as wild as an animal when he loses the protection of a greater being.

In such a situation, it is not surprising that one feels fear, but that the fear and insecurity in one's heart must be completely eliminated unless one is made a citizen of another world, a citizen of an eternal world.

This world will give him new and more valuable strength, give him confidence, give him courage, and enable him to successfully liberate himself from the world of fear.

This is indeed a secret, and I would like to quote James Reed again: "It was in this eternal world that Christ discovered the secret of fearlessness." He knew that neither natural disasters nor human cruelty could touch the things of the eternal world in which he lived. In this eternal world, nothing is threatened by water and fire, because the power of water and fire can never reach this realm. Pascal seems to say it more clearly in his Thoughts: "True fear comes from faith; False fear comes from doubt. True fear is accompanied by hope because it comes from faith, and because people have fear of the God they believe in. The former is afraid of losing God, and the latter is afraid of finding God. Indeed, fear in the ultimate sense is not simply fear, nor is it an emotion, it is related to the origin of our existence, as long as there is a sense of existence, as long as there is no desire to live, as long as there is no end to thinking, sooner or later will face this problem, because it is so real and unavoidable.

The philosopher Max Scherer said that man has become completely and completely problematic in relation to himself—the beginning of solving these problems lies in the knowledge and estimation of these problems, and I have begun to face and explore the fears I face and their basic forms, which may indicate that I am on my way out of the torment of fear.