Worrying About Small Things

 

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Worrying About Small Things

I remember my mother was a born worrier – if everything with the family, extended family, society, city, state and country was fine, then she would worry about global politics – it was like an intoxicant for her; in the end any kind of worrying is poison for the system.

We need to go deep into our worries and find out the root cause – that is the only way to get rid of them and if that is not possible– suffer them and let them go. Suffering liberates us, it sets us free. We want to get out of it without getting into it; that won’t be possible, we have to pay the price. The way is through, remember. Never escape from anything. If this worrying is happening then it must be something essential that our being has to go through. 

And don’t call those things small. They are important, otherwise the worry wouldn’t happen. The worry always happens around something important. Those things may not be important for somebody else but for the individual they are.

So, whatsoever we are worrying about is natural at this stage. So, worry! Nothing to be worried about – worrying…. Worry! Accept it. Play with this teddy-bear like worry a little more and soon we will come to a point where it disappears of its own accord; we need not drop it. If we have to drop it, it will come back, because dropping it will mean violently, forcibly, dropping it. The work was not yet complete, we were not ripe yet. For one or two days we may remain enlightened and then we will fall again. We will be holding our teddy-bear and say, “To hell with god and to hell with enlightenment; I don’t want them, I don’t care about them!”

Nothing can happen unless the time for it has come, nothing ever happens unless the time is right. The problem arises because we go on listening to many kinds of people. Somebody says, “Think of humanity; humanity is in such trouble and we are playing cards? Think of humanity, think of the violence in the world; and we are playing cards?’ This can create trouble in our minds. We can start thinking, “What am I doing? – playing cards and people are dying all over the world. Millions are dying from starvation and we are playing cards?’

We can drop those cards but sooner or later we will come back. In fact, the more worried we become about the violence in the world, the more we will feel that it is better to play cards. Just to forget all about this violence, we will have to play cards! 

Just do whatsoever comes naturally. Just respect nature and respect it absolutely. Relax and worry… and things will change. Acceptance and trust are the vehicles of fundamental change within us.