on flowing with nature
The other day, I was to travel by bus and saw a bus at the signal; when i asked the conductor if I could get in, he said sure and i got in. After a few minutes, another person got in without asking the conductor; the conductor was furious and shouted at him and told him to get off and go to a bus stop. This set me thinking.. why did the conductor let me in politely and shouted at another person...was it bcoz i respected him... or was i flowing with nature...
Chinese use the flow method very effectively in home planning "feng shui"; it is also
successfully used in martial arts Akido where one uses the opponent's power against him/her.. and i pondered.. how does this happen, can i make it happen or should i flow with it? Great examples of being with flow is that of great musicians or cricketer .. in fact anyone who excels in what he or she does..all of them mysteriously are in a profession where they are excellent.. probably bcoz they are in flow with nature.. how did it happen that sachin tendulkar is excellent in cricket.. can we imagine him to be a great musician? what propelled him to play cricket...and then it struck me .. he or for that matter great musicians or actors spontaneously started doing things that they were good at...and it was something that their body, heart and brain combination was the best for the profession they were good at.. and the profession they got into was in tune with nature..
and the people who fail have failed bcoz they are in the wrong profession and are trying
their best to do things that they are not suited for...havent u noticed that sometimes we try our best to do something and that doesnt work at all and some other time.. the result happen instantaneously with hardly any effort...havent u noticed that when you relax during swimming, you automatically float and can swim effortlessly and at other times when u resist, you plunge into the water...
so all that i hv to do (spontaneously?) is do my best to be in tune with nature...and if it doesnt happen sometimes, all it means is that i am not in tune and am trying to use force which is precisely the method to ensure that i fail just like the other person trying to get onto the bus. So when things dont work out, fretting and fuming can probably let out only steam.... better thing is to just wait and try again or use a different route to reach your goal just like when you climb mountain, you have to sometimes change directions and even go down so that you can reach your goal of reaching the mountain top.
Chinese use the flow method very effectively in home planning "feng shui"; it is also
successfully used in martial arts Akido where one uses the opponent's power against him/her.. and i pondered.. how does this happen, can i make it happen or should i flow with it? Great examples of being with flow is that of great musicians or cricketer .. in fact anyone who excels in what he or she does..all of them mysteriously are in a profession where they are excellent.. probably bcoz they are in flow with nature.. how did it happen that sachin tendulkar is excellent in cricket.. can we imagine him to be a great musician? what propelled him to play cricket...and then it struck me .. he or for that matter great musicians or actors spontaneously started doing things that they were good at...and it was something that their body, heart and brain combination was the best for the profession they were good at.. and the profession they got into was in tune with nature..
and the people who fail have failed bcoz they are in the wrong profession and are trying
their best to do things that they are not suited for...havent u noticed that sometimes we try our best to do something and that doesnt work at all and some other time.. the result happen instantaneously with hardly any effort...havent u noticed that when you relax during swimming, you automatically float and can swim effortlessly and at other times when u resist, you plunge into the water...
so all that i hv to do (spontaneously?) is do my best to be in tune with nature...and if it doesnt happen sometimes, all it means is that i am not in tune and am trying to use force which is precisely the method to ensure that i fail just like the other person trying to get onto the bus. So when things dont work out, fretting and fuming can probably let out only steam.... better thing is to just wait and try again or use a different route to reach your goal just like when you climb mountain, you have to sometimes change directions and even go down so that you can reach your goal of reaching the mountain top.
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