Most people see success or see people who have achieved mastery in some aspect of their life and make statements like “he is lucky”, “oh he inherited this”, “ah, that’s just a result of circumstance”, “oh whatever he wants just comes his way” or “he has a knack of getting his way”. For me this reflects a very fundamental point – that most people shy away from giving credit where it is due and often people do not even understand what leads to success or mastery (note: I do not define success only in monetary or other socially conditioned terms). While its easy to pin “luck” onto people, most do not see the long hours of discipline, practice and dedication which leads a person into a state where the right things attract themselves to their lives, where either their work, art or service become easeful as a result of their mastery and things happen because they are open to the cues being given by the universe. Continue reading “Mastery and Practice”
Category: Spirituality
The Bane of “Hero Worshiping” and Being a “Fan”
What does it mean being a “fan” of someone or something? Most celebrities have a “fanclub”. What a funny and strange club to have. A group of people who do not know or understand you, but keep mindlessly showering their adulation on you, following your movements etc., because of their own mental projections onto you. In fact if most “fans” got closer, got to know and perhaps lived with the celebrities they adulated, they would realise they are normal human beings, struggling with the same challenges and working out their destinies like anyone else.
My take is – stop hero worshiping. Say no to it. If you have to Hero Worship anyone, worship yourself, love yourself, honour yourself. By “yourself”, I do not mean the self serving egoic melodramatic side of your personality. But more the inner being, the one that makes you breathe, the flow of what makes you aware of the universe, the underlying consciousness or awakening in your heart. Any other form of hero worship, simply gives your inner power away; by honouring Yourself you create your own inner pillar, around which you can build your life.
Seeming Everyday Reality?
Most people are grounded in the seeming reality they see around themselves. Their work, their career, their job, the people they meet, their social life, their friends and family. But what about those who have glimpsed a different reality, a different inner world, a world filled with love and happiness, of rest and rejuvenation, of wondrous music and dance. Once that inner glimpse is seen, how do you still remain ambitious, how can one plot anyone’s’ downfall, how to play politics at work, how to even be remotely interested in a job; the larger question is – how to bring that glimpse of a vibrating and throbbing inner universe, into not only your daily life, but the daily life of everyone you touch – your friends, family, clients, the people you meet, the taxi driver, the person on the road.
Thats How It Is
I keep seeing Happiness and only Happiness. Even where I “recognise” unhappiness, I know at its root is only happiness.
I keep seeing Abundance and only Abundance. Even where I “recognise” non-abundance, I know at its root is only abundance.
I keep seeing Love and only Love. Even where I “recognise” non-love, I know at its root is only Love.
When I see, recognise and understand my root beat, I know there is nothing I need not see, nothing that my look need transform, nothing that I need segment.
At my root my bliss changes everything, and nothing. That’s how it is.
Dennis Taraporewala 