No one escapes the growth pains that accompany life’s challenges. But what happens isn’t as important as how we deal with it. When we really investigate distressing situations, they can serve us. If we connect the way we’re feeling with our thoughts and actions (and take responsibility without making ourselves or anyone else ‘wrong’), even suffering can help us quicken and deepen our personal evolution. Blaming others just makes us feel like powerless victims. Karma means cause and effect. Using the reflections (effects) from the world as information helps to make karma a valuable mechanism…
For growth.
Jarl and Steve
..I am in love with both Krishna and Lao Tzu.they are unburdening me.i have been carrying the tensions of unaccomplished ambitions of myself mu family and the society in which I live..
..thanks mam once again
..i love you
I don’t really understand mam.if we are just grateful and not thinking about something to achieve like ‘go for it’,chase your dreams,how will we create something significant in our life.
The terms like desirelessness links me to complacency,aimlessness links to a spoiled child.
I have read somewhere that if you are desireless like Krishna ,every act you do will be a Leela.
Mam how will we connect LaoTzu and Krishna..?
Much love
First of all, you have to ask yourself ‘what is significant’ and do you really need to create something significant in your life? What about a monk who just meditates? Is that not significant? Every act is Leela, no matter what. Anything that in manifested reality is leela, part of the play. Anything that arises also disappears and is only ‘significant’ in the present moment because that’s really all there is. We’re living in a dream world that we’re creating, stringing our story along trying to make sense of life. ‘Significant’ is a completely relevant term. Do you see Lao Tzu and Krishna in conflict?
Lao Tzu says:
Therefore the Master
Acts without doing anything
And teaches without saying anything.
Things arise and she lets them come;
Things disappear and she lets them go.
She has but doesn’t possess,
Acts but doesn’t expect.
When her work is done, she forgets it.
That is why it lasts forever.
As so often, the right gratitude at the right time. Thanks so much! I am beginning to concoct for myself a searchable database with all these things, even though they are entirely memorable as they are. My study of conscious awareness is deepening all the time. It is the final answer to a hundred teenage questions that overwhelmed this little kid.
Love, Larry
Dear mam .
What is the real meaning of desirelessness ?what is the line that demarcates it from laziness?
Love
Sarath
Dear Sarath, Desirelessness has nothing to do with laziness. If you were to just be grateful for everything you already have, life would flow effortlessly and you would be naturally led to ‘do’ just the right thing for you! It is really that simple.
Master Linji (Japanese, Rinzai) invented the term “businessless person,” the person who has nowhere to go and nothing to do. This was his ideal example of what a person could be. “As I see it, there isn’t so much to do. Just be ordinary—put on your robes, eat your food, and pass the time doing nothing.” —Master Linji, Teaching 18 From an article in Trycycle that I came upon this morning.