LETTING GO...BREAKING FREE

"That things change due to their causes..."

In one way or another we all have been forced to learn to Let go of something in our lives...Letting go is definitely THE BUZZWORD nowadays...something easier said then done..

How many times someone tells us not to cling on to a past failed relationship, an unsuccessful career, that unreasonable boss or to quit smoking after 30years??? urghhh..what then is Success???

Success...a totality in life, how we are in our lives, in our careers/business, in our meditation..the list goes on..most of us have the tendency to assume success as all those or other aspects of our lives...Alot of times we are trying to fool others that we have a high maintence success..Is success a quality of being balanced and to have meaning in our lives and to move forward? Personal fame and fortune wouldn't amount to much without fulfillment..Balancing work, family and life is an art in itself so to speak..perfecting the art of living a quality life..

In the heart of it, success really comes down to the ability to care for those individuals around of us and not through manipulation or suppression. It really boils down to the quality of having true meaning and purpose in our whole lives. If we are unsuccessful, then it wouldnt match what our expectation was. We had assumed something and something else happened..versatility counts.

We all go through this everyday.."Am i successful or not??" we have to look at what is happening for ourselves in porportion to what we need, then we are successful..If our lives have a quality where we feel more generous, we have more patience, more unprovoked kindness...and compassion..if these elements all come into play, then we will experience a lightness of being and have more humour, more enjoyment and more success in that sense..Even if we continue to work hard and be successful in the conventional way, but the summation of it is that we are NOT HAPPY , we are more short tempered, less patient and mean to all around us, not listening to them...we can hardly consider that as successful...

*Wind horse flags..

Inner level success and true meaning of success..In tibetan language, they call an individual who is successful a "wind-horse" (Lung-Ta) in tibetan ..and the source of that true success is a sense of living a life that has the quality of being virtuous, being kind and having that unimpededness..Success in our culture is very trying and we are all dealing with it on a daily basis..we have the pressure of our families, of other people..There may not be fireworks going off but if we realize internally that we have generated that and when our lives are moving forward, improving everyday, there will be some kind of naturation taking place..that is success in a very basic way...

Whether we are just meditating or deeping our level of understanding of our world around us, when there is a connection with everyone not just our families...there is a more holistic approach ...I think that as we go along in life, we tend to compartmentalize ...We are a whole human being and we have to learn how to integrate and how to move forward..

May everyone find their true and inner success in their lives..moment to moment..

~BE WELL