Stop Trying
Edited extract from a talk at the Master Session 2000 - the afternoon session on 5 November.
When you try, you’ve got a tension in you. You’ve got a friction, a conflict. There’s what has to be mastered; and there’s me trying to master it. That’s the conflict.
Would you please stop trying and just do what you’re moved to do? You will be more at ease. You’ll be able to take the successes and the failures with greater equilibrium. You have a deeper depression of loss when you’re trying to do something and fail. And, if you’re trying to do something and succeed, you have a higher rate of excitement, which will bring you unhappiness next week or some other time, because excitement cannot hold up. You might win today, and celebrate today, but it doesn’t matter what you’ve won, before long you won’t want it, or you’ll be so used to it that you’ll be wanting something else. That’s how it is with excitement.
So would you please stop trying and just do what you’re moved to do?
Stop the Battle