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step itself then his second step is never taken. He is engulfed by many problems. Due to his ignorance, false beliefs and strange thinking man takes the wrong steps and gets caught in the vicious cycle of problems. This can happen due to fear also. He begins meditational practice but fears the future because of his accompanying remiss behaviour. Fear, ignorance, ambition are all obstacles to meditational practice. They do not let us transform. The transformation we want to undergo we are not able to effect. Undesired changes occur but not the desired ones. They get distanced.
Fear: a great destroyer
Due to fear any number of modes change.
Plague was riding a horse. On the way it met with Confucius. He asked, "Where are you going?"
Plague replied, "I am going to the town of Singai." "What will you do?"
"I will kill people."
"How many people do you want to kill?"
"Ten thousand."
Hearing just so much Confucius moved on ahead. A few days later Confucius was going for a walk
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