The Desert of Arizona
Clear 59 Degrees – 6:31 a.m.
Before we get too deep here on a Friday, enrollment is now open for the NEXT Lead Lab beginning Tuesday September 20. Like last time, limited to 15 people. Details here.
So the question of the day is:
“Should you chase anything?”
If you want the best of life, chasing doesn’t seem to work.
It doesn’t work in romance…
It doesn’t work with clients…
It doesn’t even work in your own relationship with yourself.
And yet, everything out there tells us to chase our dreams. Go after what you want! Get it. Do it. Make it happen. Rah, rah, rah!
Ha! What a great way to be miserable forever. Never quite “there”…until one day…you realize it’s your LAST day. Oops.
Your ego self wants answers. And it’s going to go hunt them down, kill them, and drag them home.
But it doesn’t turn out that way too often, does it? Not too many real answers out there.
And that’s why the painter decides to become a doctor and spends her life doing something that doesn’t give her life. The answers she got out there told her that was the “sensible” thing to do.
Your real self doesn’t chase answers, it knows it doesn’t have to.
Where are your answers right NOW?
They are RIGHT on the other side of you making a connection society doesn’t want you to make – that’s the connection with the real YOU. You do that through meditation. Or as I like to refer to it:
You do it through having the discipline to be with YOURSELF.
This from the Indian mystic, OSHO:
“Meditation is nothing but a device to make you aware of your real self – which is not created by you, which need not be created by you, which you already are. You are born with it, you are it! It needs to be discovered. If this is not possible, or if the society does not allow it to happen, and no society allows it to happen, because the real self is dangerous – dangerous for the established church, dangerous for the state, dangerous for the crowd, dangerous for the tradition – because once a man knows his real self, he becomes an individual.
He no longer belongs to the mob psychology; he will not be superstitious, and he cannot be exploited. He cannot be led like cattle, he cannot be ordered and commanded. He will live according to his light, he will live from his own inwardness. His life will have tremendous beauty, integrity. But that is the fear of the society.
Integrated persons become individuals, and the society wants you to be nonindividuals. Instead of individuality, the society teaches you to be a personality. The word personality has to be understood. It comes from a root persona – persona means a mask. The society gives you a false idea of who you are; it gives you just a toy, and you go on clinging to the toy your whole life.
The one way is to live through meditation – then you live a life of rebellion, of adventure, of courage. Then you really live! The other way to live, or to fake living, is the way of the ego – strengthen the ego, nourish the ego; so that you need not look into the self, cling to the ego. The ego is an artifact created by the society to deceive you, to distract you.”
Doing THIS work (if you can call it “work”) seems like a valuable way to invest your time, no? Or would you rather just be “busy” chasing your answers?