Why Do Buddhist Novices Experience Fear When Contemplating the Eradication of Self-View?

Some beginners in Buddhism experience fear and apprehension when contemplating the abandonment of self-view; this fear actually originates from the mental faculty. Since time without beginning, the mental faculty has consistently regarded the five aggregates as the self and persistently clung to them. Upon encountering the Four Noble Truths, which reveal that the five aggregates are not the self but are empty, the mental faculty naturally resists this initially, unwilling to accept this truth. Consequently, it generates fear, preventing the conscious mind from further contemplation and observation, hoping to maintain the status quo and continue clinging.