Keys to Successful
Living Part 1
Everyone
wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have
to go out and search for those keys, or do we have those potentials already
within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that it is divided
into 2 aspects—life within and life without; internal life and external life—and
we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have renounced the world, gone
far away from civilization, and live in the wilderness doing nothing but
meditation, we can’t ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do
our ablutions, and perform our practices on time. So life in the external world
is as important as life in the internal world.
Even one who
has renounced the world has to understand the word relationship
properly, because life itself is actually relationship. The body is related
to the breath, and the breath is related to the mind. The body, breath, senses,
and mind all function together as a unit. So life virtually means relationship,
and thus art of living and being requires an understanding of one’s
relationship to the external world and the relationships within oneself.
