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 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
ablutions, and preform 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 unit. So life virtually means relationship, and thus the art of living and
being requires an understanding of one’s relationship to the external world and
the relationships within oneself.