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| Excerpt From: | Living Enlightenment |
| Chapter 1: | You Are Your Emotions |
| Section 2: | There is nothing to worry – Living enlightenment is enjoying life without worry. |
| Part 4: | Worry – a legacy passed down |
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The problem is that parents expect their children to worry! If they don’t worry, they brand them as uncaring. It is possible to care without worrying. Care is doing, worry is chattering. There is no use chattering. Chattering is like trying to cross a bridge before it comes.
A young boy was driving his mother to the neighboring village. They were nearing the village when they remembered a particular bridge that used to be very old and unusable.
The mother got very anxious and said, ‘I will never cross that bridge by car.’
The son said, ‘Let’s see how it looks when we come to it.’
The mother said, ‘I’m sure the bridge will break if we attempt to cross it.’
The son replied, ‘Let’s see how strong it is. We won’t cross it without checking it carefully.’
The mother said, ‘If something happens to you or me, your father will never forgive me.’ She kept going on like this, becoming more and more upset.
Soon they reached the spot where the bridge stood. The bridge had been replaced with a new one!
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