| The problem of fear is an extraordinarily urgent problem because death faces every one of us – the old and the young. To understand it, to investigate it, to go into this whole problem of what it is to die requires a mind that is capable of investigating. Investigation is impeded, denied, when there is a motive, when there is a search for an end, when theree is personal opinion or knowledge that you have acquired. When you project that into your investigation, all investigation ceases. From Public Talk 7, New Delhi, 11 February 1962 Read more | 