Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.

This is episode number 142.

I am your host Noah Rochetta and today I'm going to talk about fear.

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October seemed like a good month to talk about the topic of fear with Halloween and all

the preparations they got, at least in the US and other Western cultures.

This is the month that you see all the movies on TV or about horror films and scary things.

And I thought it would be fun to talk about the concept of fear from the Buddhist perspective.

And I think this is a fascinating topic to explore because all of us experience fear.

Fear is a universal thing.

We all experience it and it's completely natural like all other emotions, fears, just

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