(9.55) By all means, be afraid of something
That is the principal cause of samsaric suffering;
But, since meditation on emptiness eliminates this suffering,
Why should you be afraid of emptiness?

(9.56) If there were a truly existent I,
It would make sense to be afraid of certain things;
But, since there is no truly existent I,
Who is there to be afraid?

We all wish to free ourself permanently from suffering.  Therefore, it makes sense to identify the cause of our suffering and remove it so that it never arises again.  Once we clearly understand how ignorance is the cause of all of our suffering, we will naturally have a strong wish to eliminate it. 

Sometimes we are afraid to really throw ourselves into the Dharma.  We worry that if we truly believe the Dharma it would require such radical changes to our lives that we are not prepared to make that we wind up holding ourselves back and preventing ourselves from fully embracing the truth of Dharma. It is true that accepting the truth of Dharma does imply radical changes, but the changes we need to make are not external. Ask ash ichikawa says we need to remain natural while changing our aspiration. We do not need to abandon our jobs, our families, our enjoyments and so forth . We merely need to abandon our delusions and their root causes. We do not need to fear realizing emptiness thinking that it will cause nothing to have any meaning. Quite the opposite. When we understand emptiness we realize we can bring infinite meaning to every single thing. If meaning existed on the sides of the objects then somethings would have meaning and others would not. But if everything is empty, we can bring meaning to everything. Therefore there is absolutely nothing to fear.

Venerable Tharchin gives the analogy of somebody holding a red hot poker. If we found ourselves holding such a poker, we would immediately let it go without hesitation. We would not continue to hold onto it thinking that our happiness depended upon it. The truth is remaining in samsara and identifying with contaminated aggregates is like holding onto such a red hot poker. It is the cause of perpetual suffering. If we can simply let go of identifying with these contaminated aggregates, we do not cease to exist, we simply cease to suffer from them.   We follow our delusions because we believe we will suffer more if we don’t.  This is what needs to change.  When it does, then we will naturally want to stop following them.