In this lecture Shunryu Suzuki talks about fear and how Zazen (mediation) helps to overcome it.
In the previous lecture, I compared zazen practice and usual everyday activity. In usual activity, as you know, our effort is directed to the outside, and our activity is concentrated on some particular things. This activity of particularizing something creates many things. But this kind of creativity at the same time creates some fear. This creativity will result in some feelings— whether it is good or bad. We will have a good or bad feeling.
https://www.shunryusuzuki.com/suzuki/audio/67-mp3-16k/67-12-05%20A-t.mp3