The Causes of Conflict in the Workplace

Excuses

Also we need to understand that whenever we find any kind of excuses we want to run away from ourselves. Look to Arjuna it will be very easy for us to understand that because he did not want to practice the Yoga which is absolutely scientific, no belief is needed still he says that it appears impractical and unendurable to me, for the mind is restless and unsteady – by saying this he wanted to run away from himself. Krishna was all the time from different ways guiding him towards himself. As Krishna knew that once he will be with himself, Me and him will not be different.

Look into our life when we don’t want to grow how many excuses we find out.

If we understand that – Growth needs your understanding, growth needs your awareness. Awareness is enough. If you are aware in this moment of whatever is happening, that awareness becomes the sun, and the tree of your being grows. That awareness becomes the water, the rain and the tree of your being grows. That awareness becomes the food, the nutrition. That awareness is all that is needed for growth. A man grows because of awareness, not because of hopes.

Awareness Is the Seed of Godliness in Us: Risk everything for awareness, but never risk awareness for anything. This is the commitment of a seeker: that he is ready to lose his life but not his awareness; he has found a value which is higher than life. There is no other value which is higher than awareness. Awareness is the seed of godliness in you. When it comes to its full growth, you have come to the fulfillment of your destiny. As you go deeper, your actions may not be efficient but they will have a new quality, the quality of grace, which is far more valuable. No machine can have the quality of grace. Your actions, your words will have a beauty of their own.

Live A Paradox

Acting is certainly the most spiritual of professions for the simple reason that the actor has to be in a paradox: he has to become identified with the act he is performing, and yet remain a watcher.

If he is acting as Hamlet he has to become absolutely involved in being a Hamlet, he has to forget himself totally in his act, and yet at the deepest core of his being he has to remain a spectator, a watcher. If he really becomes absolutely identified with Hamlet, then there is bound to be trouble.

The real actor has to live a paradox: he has to act as if he is what he is acting, and yet deep down he knows that “I am not this.” That’s why acting is the most spiritual of professions…the whole of life is nothing but a drama enacted.

When an actor is acting and playing his role he has longing but as a watcher his longing has been purified. Longing Is Pure Only If Unattached.

Longing in its purity is divine, longing when it longs for nothing is divine. The moment an object of longing arises, it becomes mundane. Longing is a pure fire that purifies, longing is a smokeless fire, a smokeless flame. But the moment it becomes attached to any object whatsoever: worldly, otherworldly; money, meditation, God, nirvana, it doesn’t matter – any object, and the longing is no longer pure. It is contaminated by the object. Then the object becomes more important than the longing itself. Then the longing is only a means, it is no longer an end in itself.

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