......success and failure are your journey*......
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*The quote in the top bar is from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, whom I tend to view with some suspcion as a person (great teacher or charismatic cult leader? I'm not sure!), but whose teachings I often find useful nonetheless... here is a further elaboration:
The sense of trust is that, when you apply your inquisitiveness, when you look into a situation, you know that you will get a definite response.
If you take steps to accomplish something, that action will have a result--either failure or success. When you shoot your arrow, either it will hit the target or it will miss. Trust is knowing that there will be a message.
When you trust in those messages, the reflections of the phenomenal world, the world begins to seem like a bank, or reservoir, of richness. You feel that you are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages....
You trust, not in success, but in reality.... [W]hatever the result that comes from your action, that result is not an end in itself. You can always go beyond the result; it is the seed for a further journey.
And,
Often, when someone tells us we should be fearless, we think they're saying not to worry, that everything is going to be all right. But unconditional fearlessness is simply based on being awake....
[F]earlessness is unconditional because you are neither on the side of success or failure. Success and failure are your journey.
2 comments:
Good for you for taking a day to enjoy yourself.
In general are you good at keeping your word to yourself if you make a bargain like that? If you aren't, is there anything you can do to help yourself keep your word? I'm thinking the small steps like getting dressed and going downstairs. eg I'm thinking that when you make such a bargain with yourself, maybe set the work out in such a way that its easy to get access to in the bus. Bring it out onto your lap first thing. Say you will read 3 pages before you get to do something fun. Get someone else to help hold yourself accountable. Tell someone else to SMS you and ask you how you're doing with your work - last night I asked someone I was chatting with to tell me go to bed.
If you aren't, then why repeatedly set yourself up for failure? Just enjoy your day and prepare yourself to have a frenzied few hours - no need to freak out about it. Just be frenzied when the urgency finally kicks you in the ass if that's what it takes to get you going. And enjoy being frenzied. The results will be the same whether you're worried or not so don't worry.
Know that you've received highest honors at university that way so it can be done even tho you weary of it as you get older.
rather than being frenzied, i usually do what i can with the time that i have, then figure out what to do with the fact that i haven't finished everything. it's never a matter of life and death. so, well, i didn't have it today - i can still have it tomorrow - etc.
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