Bodhisattvas fear causes.

sentient beings fear results.

Bodhisattvas understand that every cause will have a consequence, thus they strive to both avoid creating evil causes and generate virtuous causes. In this way, evil karmas will be eliminated and virtuous ones will accumulate. This allows bodhisattvas to improve their conditions and advance along the path to supreme, perfect enlightenment.

Sentient beings on the other hand are like children who after committing a misdeed hope they will not get caught. When they are found out, they often blame others and may even retaliate not realizing that such retaliation is yet another cause, a cause that will incur yet another result leading to further suffering.

To stop fearing results, we need to focus on the present instead of trying to escape the past. How? We remain constantly alert to what we are doing, to what causes we are creating.

Without a cause, adverse consequences will not occur and we will have saved ourselves from their associated suffering.