Reflecting on his recent experience with a Seattle meditation group days after the American presidential election, Tan Kaccāna contemplates fear from a Buddhist perspective. He points out that there are skillful states of fear and discusses two – otapa (fear of the results of unskillful actions that inspires sila) and samvega (a fear of dukkha that inspires ones practice). But he also reflects how unskillful fear born of uncertainty about the future can lead us to abandon refuge in worldly things and to seek refuge in dhamma. This talk was offered on November 19, 2016 at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery.