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 two 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
cannot ignore external life. We still have to see that we eat, do our ablution,
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, sense, and mind all functions together as a unit. So life virtually means
relationships, and thus the art of living and being requires an understanding
of one’s relationship to the external world in the relationship within oneself.
All human beings have inner potentials, but many people
are not aware of those potentials and do not know how to use them to have s
successful life. Those who are not happy internally can never be happy externally;
those who are not happy with themselves can never make others happy. Those who
do not love themselves can never love others.
