Allison Carmen
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381 appearances
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first heard Jul 2017
last heard Jul 2017
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Well, you know, parenting is, you know, out of all the areas that maybe has helped me,
Maybe it's helped me with parenting the most, clearly, without a doubt.
Because what happens is that, you know, what the Buddha said that all attachment leads to suffering, right?
And we're attached to our children.
So in a way, there's going to be some suffering being a parent.
I've never met a parent that didn't have some type of attachment.
We need our kids to be okay, right?
And we have a definition of what that is.
But over time, I realized that it's not just
the attachment that really causes a lot of the suffering, it's our inability to deal with the unknown, the unexpected, and the stories we write because of it.
And when someone has these unexpected moments with our children, what we do is we take this moment and we project it into the future.
So a lot of our suffering is not, sometimes it's in the moment, but a lot of it's what this moment today means for tomorrow.
And so sometimes when a parent will come to me and they have a child that's going through a difficult time, an illness or a disability, it's not always the moment.
It's what is this going to look like in 10 years?
What's this going to look like in 15 years?
How will they have a job?
How will they go to college?
And what maybe does, it brings us back to the moment.
And even if the moment is difficult, it brings us back to this moment to say, maybe this
Things will be different than I think.
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