Facing What Frightens Us
Halloween is a celebration of scary things. Halloween is a time for making benign things appear frightening -- making a jack-o'-lantern out of a pumpkin; dressing up as zombies and mummies. It's all for fun because we know the zombies and mummies are children and the glowing, scowling face is a big squash with a candle in it.
Buddhism teaches us that the things that really frighten us are just apparitions, also; not "real." But when the apparition is a life-threatening illness or financial ruin, it's hard to realize that.
Facing What Frightens Us originally appeared on About.com Buddhism on Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at 13:26:57.
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