⁴²The Buddha may not have talked very much about fear in his discourses, with the expection of the fear of death (e.g. Anguttara Nikaya 4.184); but see footnote 31 in Chapter 12 for a Theravadan quote focused on fear. I would further think that something similar to the cognitive dynamics in the flowchart in Fig, 13.2 may apply to threats directly, when desire is replaced by threat and the ensuing fear. Furthermore, the experiential style of focusing on the “here and now” is has an effect similar to meta-awareness, since with that cognitive style, future consequences of threats will not be simulated at all. The connection between desires and threats is highly complex, and an interesting topic for future research.