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Thoughts 95
95. Don't force me to be what you want me to be, else I may get forced to become what I want to be.
Moksha I liked this particular thought because it set me thinking that you are such a lucky chap that at least you know what you want to be.
Last month, I was looking at some self-improvement material on increasing one's productivity and time management and apparently it all starts with "Writing down one's short term/ long term goals and objectives" ...
The perenially lazy me just couldn't move beyond this point because everytime I approach this question, I have to honestly answer that I just dont have any Objective - short or long term. Not that I didnt try to form one - but just nothing seems worth it.
There are always some immediate wants and desires - but an ojective that can drive one life-long? I for one cannot come to something - any advice?
Hmm, thats an interesting perspective, Gotya. However, my this thought of mine may have been misunderstood. If you remember what I've been trying to do in sAdhana is what I term as a middle-path, in which I try to balance myself towards worldly existence too. People have been forcing me to shift completely into the world instead. And what I meant by this thought is to tell them that I'd rather go the other way instead... which is the nivRtti mArga.
Now coming back to what you wrote, I'm not sure if you really need an advice; most of what I advice is on the spiritual plane. :) To that effect, being without goal is quite an advanced stage! Wanting to have a goal and not being able to have one is another thing, of course. I remember an early blog entry which may make some (non/)sense for you; try it out if you'd like to please: http://anythingwise.blogspot.com/2005/03/purpose-of-life.html :)
I guess, another way of saying it is that the true objective is to become desireless, which may mean to many that life is, ergo, purposeless!
I'm not sure if any of this helps; if it doesn't possibly what you're doing is the right approach. That is, to work on small goals and so on, till the bigger one unfolds itself, automatically. Trust me, it does.
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Moksha
I liked this particular thought because it set me thinking that you are such a lucky chap that at least you know what you want to be.
Last month, I was looking at some self-improvement material on increasing one's productivity and time management and apparently it all starts with "Writing down one's short term/ long term goals and objectives" ...
The perenially lazy me just couldn't move beyond this point because everytime I approach this question, I have to honestly answer that I just dont have any Objective - short or long term. Not that I didnt try to form one - but just nothing seems worth it.
There are always some immediate wants and desires - but an ojective that can drive one life-long? I for one cannot come to something - any advice?
Cheers
Gotya
Hmm, thats an interesting perspective, Gotya. However, my this thought of mine may have been misunderstood. If you remember what I've been trying to do in sAdhana is what I term as a middle-path, in which I try to balance myself towards worldly existence too. People have been forcing me to shift completely into the world instead. And what I meant by this thought is to tell them that I'd rather go the other way instead... which is the nivRtti mArga.
Now coming back to what you wrote, I'm not sure if you really need an advice; most of what I advice is on the spiritual plane. :) To that effect, being without goal is quite an advanced stage! Wanting to have a goal and not being able to have one is another thing, of course. I remember an early blog entry which may make some (non/)sense for you; try it out if you'd like to please: http://anythingwise.blogspot.com/2005/03/purpose-of-life.html :)
I guess, another way of saying it is that the true objective is to become desireless, which may mean to many that life is, ergo, purposeless!
I'm not sure if any of this helps; if it doesn't possibly what you're doing is the right approach. That is, to work on small goals and so on, till the bigger one unfolds itself, automatically. Trust me, it does.
Hari Om,
--moksha
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