Meditation Point #21
A Zen Thing . QuotesIt is like Archers. If they start out competing, they’ll never become marksmen. It is only long after practice, with no thought of winning or losing, that they can hit the target. Same with the study of the Way. If even a single thought of winning or losing appears, you will be chained by winning and losing.
— Ying-an
Take a minute and think about this one, there is an important lesson here. While on the surface it seems like we should have no goals that is not the case. The real message here is that we have to appreciate life. No one knows how long they will live or if they will even finish their current project so the importance should not be put on the end goal but the process, the task. If we attain the goal that is great, if we fail, great because even in our failures we suceed. It sounds corny, hell it sounds like the type of philosophy that a loser would adopt to explain away their failures!! While there are some people who use this thinking to explain away their failures they are easy to spot, they are the ones who have never suceeded at anything. This is sound advice. As you approach your next task or goal, seek not the ends but the means, it is here in the process from nothingness to perfection that we find joy in what we do.
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