Effort is a distraction ( 28 Aug 2006)

Effort is distraction from what is
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We must understand the problem of striving. If we can understand the significance of
effort, then we can translate it into action in our daily life. Does not effort mean
a struggle to change what is into what it is not, or what it should be, or what it
should become? We are constantly escaping from what is, to transform or modify it.
He who is truly content is he who understands what is, who gives the right
significance to what is . True contentment lies not in few or many possessions, but
in understanding the whole significance of what is. Only in passive awareness is the
meaning of what is understood. I am not, at the moment, talking of the physical
struggle with the earth, with construction or a technical problem, but of
psychological striving. The psychological struggles and problems always overshadow
the physiological. You may build a careful social structure, but as long as the
psychological darkness and strife are not understood, they invariably overturn the
carefully built structure.

Effort is distraction from what is. In the acceptance of what is, striving ceases.
There is no acceptance when there is the desire to transform or modify what is.
Striving, an indication of destruction, must exist so long as there is a desire to
change what is.

Book of Life - August 28th