Man is faced with the task of being responsible for his existence. His being-in-the-world is primordially disclosed to his concern. But under the menacing and inescapable shadow of death, existence as such is anxiously felt as too massive and overwhelming to be concernfully accepted in its totality. Consequently we shy away from the immensity of being and the imminence of death and fall into a preoccupation with particular entities within the world. In this way we flee from our essential being into the illusory security offered by external situations composed of discrete things. Our concern becomes that of manipulating and organizing entities in such a way that finally, so we hope, our anxieties and fears will be able to come to rest in an utterly secure world.
– Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism by Stephen Batchelor
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