Keys to Successful
Living
Part 1
Everyone wants to be in a successful 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 world relationship properly, because life itself is
actually relationship. The body is related the breath, and the breath is
related to the mind. The body senses, and the breath is related to the mind. The
body, breath, senses, and mind all function together as a unit. So life
virtually means relationship, and thus the art of living and requires an
understanding of one’s relationship to the external world and the relationship
within oneself.
