So we are reading.
From the Bhagavad Gita.
And this particular version is Stephen Mitchell.
And so at this point in the Bhagavad Gita,
Well the whole Bhagavad Gita really,
Is a dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna.
Krishna is God,
Highest consciousness,
Your highest knowledge.
Arjuna is us.
Arjuna is our personality self.
It's such an interesting thing,
Like in Tantra,
They see the human experience like you begin as oneness.
You know,
There is this state of oneness in the universe.
To create humans,
You have to create duality.
And so there becomes this shift between,
They call it Shiva-Shakti when it's together,
And they split it between Shiva and Shakti.
And Shiva remains our Highest.
Not our highest potential.
It's like our pure consciousness.
And Shakti is pure manifestation.
In oneness we know everything.
Pure wisdom,
Pure bliss,
Pure everything.
If you tease apart pure consciousness and pure manifestation.
Pure consciousness isn't better than pure manifestation.
Shiva isn't better than Shakti.
Consciousness isn't better than the physical world.
It's just different.
It's lighter.
When we live in the physical world,
It's challenging.
Because.
.
.
It's not simple,
And we're related and interrelated with everything around us.
And we are manifesting as an individual person.
Every single person here.
Has a third chakra with a definition of who we are.
Why we're different,
What we look like,
What our hopes and aspirations are,
What our challenges are.
Each one of us in this manifest form carries genetic memory of our parents and our grandparents and our great-grandparents?
Layer on top of that that perhaps we live multiple lives and we have karmic patterns that we are reliving that we have parts of our minds that are very conscious and parts of them that are very unconscious because we've maybe had trauma.
And we've had to bury certain things.
Just to keep going.
So suddenly the physical life is very complicated.
It's not simple.
Pure consciousness of Shiva is quite simple.
It's sort of.
.
.
It's the breath,
It's the thought,
It's the pure energy.
But down here in the world.
.
.
In the world of Shakti,
Which we all are,
It's not a male-female thing.
Life is complicated.
And this is where our hero,
Arjuna,
Is.
He's confused.
He's what we would consider a very good person.
But he has before him a difficult war.
And so Arjuna,
Like lots of us,
He comes to a point in the book where he just doesn't know which way to go.
And we've all had those moments,
Like those dark nights of the soul,
Where everything we've ever learned or been taught kind of doesn't serve us anymore.
Like it's not working.
Like I remember for me.
You know,
I did all the right things,
You know,
According to me.
You know,
I.
.
.
Finished school,
I went to university,
I married a good man.
And don't get me wrong,
I don't think these things are right or wrong.
I'm just saying this was my version of reality.
I was nice to my in-laws.
I took pies to the bake sale at the school.
I did all that,
You know,
I milked the cows because we were dairy farmers.
I did everything I thought I was supposed to do.
And it took becoming very sick,
Like having breast lymphs.
And having a teacher point out to me that I was actually very depressed.
Because all those rules I had in my head.
.
.
Didn't bring me to my happiness.
They maybe brought me to some state of high functioning in society.
You know,
I was very efficient,
Whatever,
Part of the matrix.
My soul wasn't happy.
I wasn't living my life.
I wasn't living a life that would I woke up every morning excited to be alive,
Even though I had the nice husband,
I had the two children,
I had a roof over my head,
I had everything we were told.
That was supposed to make you happy.
And I wasn't happy.
And then it was the breast lumps that finally,
That was my great dark night of the soul.
That was like,
Okay.
I'm ready to hear a different way of seeing the world.
And that's what my first teacher gave to me,
Jim.
That's what Krishna is for Arjuna.
And today we begin a series of discussions.
All about.
A non-attachment to outcome.
And this is a huge.
Teaching in all religions,
All faiths.
Philosophies.
And a big one in the Gita.
So.
For anyone following along in whatever version you want.
We are looking today at chapter two.
Verse 47.
I'm actually going to read back a little bit.
Just for some context.
They're talking about foolish men.
Always men in the Gita,
But whatever.
Driven by desire for pleasure and power.
Caught up in ritual,
They strive to gain heaven.
But rebirth is the only result of their striving.
They are lured by their own desires,
Besotted by the scripture's words.
Their minds have not been made clear by the practice of meditation.
The scriptures dwell in duality.
Be beyond all opposites,
Arjuna.
Anchored in the real and free from all thoughts of wealth and comfort.
As unnecessary as the well is to a village on the banks of a river.
So unnecessary are all scriptures to someone who has seen the truth.
Now I'm going to read the piece that we're going to look at today.
You have a right to your actions.
But never to your actions' fruits.
Act for the action's sake.
And do not be attached.
To inaction.
You have a right to your actions.
But never to your actions' fruits.
Act for the action's sake.
And do not be attached to inaction.
I'm going to read one other version.
And then I would love to know your thoughts.
This is the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's version.
You have control over action alone,
Never over its fruits.
Live not for the fruits of action.
Nor attach yourself.
To inaction.
What does that mean to you?
What comes up for you when you hear that?
What insights come to you when you hear that.
The second version talked to me better.
We are responsible for the interpretation of others of our actions.
Releasing attachments.
Enjoy the journey,
Not the results.
It is not your duty to finish the work.
But neither are you at liberty to neglect it.
" That's so good.
We'll come back to that.
The great way is easy for those without preferences.
Do what I'm doing because I choose to,
Not because I expect a certain outcome.
My duty is to focus on.
What action I am doing,
Not what others think or do.
Exactly.
So I'm going to share with you.
My initial response to this and this is a piece that you know I think the very first time I ever read the Gita.
It just blew my hair back.
That was my first sort of entry into the idea of non-attachment to outcome and especially you know you go to school and you're studying for the test because you want to get an A or you apply for the job because you want to get the job and so it's very strange to imagine doing something without any attachment to the outcome And so I found this very,
Very interesting and yet it rang true somewhere inside of me.
It's really challenging to do things without attachment as humans.
It's our instinct,
Isn't it?
And inaction would not save me from attachment.
Exactly.
I'm going to read it again.
I'll read the second version.
You have control over action alone.
Never over its fruits.
Live not for the fruits of action.
Nor attach yourself to inaction.
So there's many,
Many,
Many things that we want to talk about in that tiny little verse.
And so first I just want to share with you my version of this.
One of the things that I realized after coming home from camping.
Was there was like this sadness inside of me like this this heaviness.
And it was quite overwhelming.
It was really.
.
.
Bothering me.
I don't know whether it was because I got so relaxed camping that I was able to see it or what but I don't know,
About four days in,
I was like,
Wow,
What is this heaviness inside of me?
And after contemplation and journaling and life,
I realized that there was this desire for freedom inside of me.
And the freedom.
Was actually from the opinions of others.
But also the freedom from the results of my actions.
And what I mean by that is,
For example,
I'm writing a new book and it's a toughie.
I don't think I've ever struggled quite this much writing a book before.
Writing a book's hard,
But this one,
Because it's called Healing from a Sociopathic World,
There's a million ways I can really upset people.
My perspective.
And there's a real fear that maybe I'm saying something wrong.
And maybe I'm saying something that's not exactly true,
And that really bothers me.
But what that's doing is it's stifling me.
My fear of what other people think about it is actually stopping the creative process.
I actually can't even write intuitively and allow what I meant to write to come out because I'm so worried.
About the end result.
And then I got this idea.
Honestly,
And this is weird to admit to you guys,
But I got this idea that,
Oh man,
You know what?
This book is going to catapult me to being so successful.
All my other books are about Tantra and the masculine and feminine and healing through intuition and things.
Very niche,
You know,
And I'm not saying they aren't successes or anything like that,
But you know,
I'm not moving to a castle on the hill anytime soon,
You know.
And at one point someone,
I don't know,
Someone had said,
Wow,
That's an amazing book.
That's an amazing title.
And I got it in my head that,
Ooh.
This could be my break.
And then that started holding me back.
Because then I thought,
Well,
If this is supposed to be really successful,
Then I better make sure it's more digestible to the masses.
You know,
You better not say that because that's going to upset this whole portion of people.
And you better not say that because,
And then it's not going to be your breakout success,
Katrina.
But I swear if I just let myself write to whatever tiny little niche portion of the world thinks the way I do or wants to hear this book,
It would probably already be written.
But I got it in my head.
This would be this huge success,
You know,
I was going to write the next.
I don't know,
I can't even think of a book right now.
Anyway,
There's something weird.
A boat.
The focus on the outcome.
Now!
To everybody's point,
It's weird also to take action without a desired outcome.
That's actually not what the Gita is saying.
It's not saying that you don't have a goal.
You know,
Like it's like you might have a goal that I want to become.
I want my body to be healthy.
I want to be able to get down on the floor.
I want to be able to go hiking.
I want to be able to do all these things.
It's that goal.
That then makes us say,
Okay,
Then I want to make a plan.
I'm going to join that gym because I really like the people that run it and I think they're kind and loving and I think it'll be wonderful to hang out with them.
And you know what?
I'm going to start drinking more water and I'm going to buy some veggies and I'm going to chop them up and prepare them in my fridge so that I always have really healthy veggies that will help fuel my body and We take all these actions because we have the goal.
But if we get so focused on the goal,
We will not enjoy the journey.
And then we won't even do the things.
That we want to do.
We'll actually stop eating the carrots and we'll actually stop doing the things.
And every time we step on the scale,
If we've gained weight,
We're like,
Oh,
That's it.
And then we throw the whole thing out.
As opposed to realizing that,
You know,
That's a beautiful goal.
To be healthy and strong and flexible.
That's just a great goal.
But then what we have to do is make a plan and then enjoy the plan.
Let the goal go.
And that's one thing that he says there at the first line,
You have control over your actions,
But not the fruit.
So it's not that you don't want to go for the fruit.
It's okay,
But then focus on the action.
Go for a nice walk,
Enjoy the sunshine,
But recognize that going for a walk is wonderful.
Buy some great food.
Grow some great food.
And enjoy the food.
You know,
We don't have to keep being focused on that end goal.
And the part of the like what the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi says about this is that When you focus on the action,
The fruit will simply happen.
The fruit happens as a result of the action.
You don't have to think about it.
And if we do think about it,
It's like putting the cart before the horse and then you can't go anywhere.
Like there's something really.
Wild.
That it just happens.
And so it's kind of trusting the plan that's so important.
Have a goal but not get attached to it.
Easier said.
Totally.
And this is where you can make it an AND statement.
That you can in your heart know that my goal is to be healthy and fit.
Let's say.
And you just let that go.
And.
.
.
I'm going to start making some really joyful changes in my life.
And I'm gonna.
.
.
Figure out what food i really love and i'm going to make some really delicious new recipes because i really love you know avocado or i really love I don't know,
Chocolate.
So I'm going to find really healthy ways to make chocolate.
It's an and.
And as long as it's an and,
Then you get to have the joy in the action and the sort of gentle holding the goal with fingertips,
You know,
Over there.
So this was a big thing for me that I realized that in all things.
And so,
For example,
I'm also I'm self-employed.
And I teach classes like this,
But I also teach courses that people pay for in yoga teacher trainings and yoga classes and things like that,
Right?
It's pretty easy to get stuck on,
Well,
I better offer the things that people want.
And I better teach in a way that people like.
And all of a sudden,
Everything becomes about some potential client or some potential student in the future.
And you just become this automaton.
Serving the masses,
Serving the people,
Serving whatever.
And it gets really empty.
And so it's a very interesting thing to actually say,
You know what,
I actually teach yoga because I am fascinated.
By yoga,
Not doing asana and stuff like that.
The whole philosophy.
I practice yoga because I'm a philosopher.
And I believe that the body,
Mind,
Spirit is connected.
And when we connect them,
We can live in such harmony and happiness.
That we can't even fathom.
That's what I genuinely believe.
That's why I teach yoga.
When I can remember why I love yoga.
I'm a better teacher.
I'm a better everything.
And then people are like,
Ooh.
I,
You know,
I want a bit more of what she's drinking.
I mean,
It's like a,
And then suddenly I'm not selling my courses.
I'm not selling anything because people are like,
Wow,
I resonate with what she's saying.
You know,
And so I'm actually more successful the more connected I am to how much I love what I'm doing.
And just hope and love and accept and expect that people will find me because they're like,
Wow,
I kind of just want to hang out with her.
How can we do that?
But again,
Sure,
Do I want to have like a bazillion people in my teacher trainings or in my classes?
Sure.
I actually won't get there by being focused.
On trying to get students.
So I just want to talk about two things that are kind of the official things that they talk about when we interpret this piece.
And one of them is.
Obviously it makes sense that if we are only working for success,
For money,
For prestige.
This is a problem.
You know,
And it's a problem.
For a million reasons.
If we only work for money.
And don't get me wrong,
I'm under no delusion that money isn't necessary.
It is necessary.
And sometimes it even means we're doing jobs we don't even like.
You know,
Because there's rent and we've got to put gas in the car and that's just the way it is.
But when we only work for the money,
Our life becomes so empty.
It doesn't matter.
You could have your own company.
You could be some big wig CEO making,
You know,
Seven figures a year and doing all this stuff,
Right?
And that's even the harder trap because it's almost like the more successful you are in the financial field,
You start to think money really is important.
This is the point.
I,
And the ego is like,
I am a great success.
I am so important in the world.
I,
You know,
Dah,
Dah,
Dah,
Dah.
And this is one of the great challenges.
Because that person lives in abject fear of losing it.
These are the people that if the stock market suddenly tanked,
They think their life is over.
They suddenly have no identity.
They don't even know why they're alive.
If they don't have.
Bazillion things in their portfolio financially.
Money's not even real.
Money is like this made up concept that we use so that I can barter five chickens and a bit of money so that you can refetch the roof of my house.
It's just a concept.
It's just a thing that we pass around to try to equalize the marketplace.
It's not real.
You know,
In the immortal words of some great indigenous teacher,
You know,
You can't eat money.
It doesn't,
You can't live under a roof of money.
It's actually not real.
And so isn't it curious?
That if you suddenly lost all your money.
You suddenly don't exist.
And this is a real thing.
Whereas,
Imagine instead you were building a company.
And we'll just talk about the CEO guy for a minute,
And then we'll talk about all of us who work for people,
Or we're self-employed,
Or we're trying to figure it out.
But imagine that sort of genre of people.
Imagine!
They built this huge company.
But they realized that along the way,
They really developed amazing people skills.
And they realize the power of community.
And how when people work together,
Amazing things can happen.
And they realize that if you put your mind to something,
You can create things in the world.
How amazing is that?
And you can keep expanding,
And you can even build things that bring communities together.
And you can give to different charities,
And you can do all these things.
Isn't that amazing?
And then Wendy.
The stock market crashes.
And this person loses all their investments.
And they literally have nothing.
Maybe they even have more debt than the rest of us combined.
Who knows?
But for them.
.
.
They're not at zero.
Because they know the benefit of community.
They know how to talk to people.
They know that we can just create whatever we want,
Anytime we want.
Because they've enjoyed the process as well as the fruits.
And when the fruits disappear,
They still have everything they learned in the process.
How different is that?
And then imagine everybody who works for somebody.
Of course we have to have the job to pay the bills.
Of course.
That's a given.
That's a,
Of course.
But what happens if we go to work every day?
And we just think about,
Oh.
Hate this job but you know gotta pay the bills yeah well I'm just here for the money oh if I wasn't here if I didn't need the money I'd be on a beach somewhere like if all we're doing is thinking about that money and that's the only reason I'm here What a horrible life that is.
But instead,
Imagine you say,
You know what?
This is the job I need right now to pay my bills.
This is what I need.
Okay,
I'm gonna let that go.
And then you start looking around.
And you're like.
.
.
Look at all the people I get to interact with.
Look at the skills I'm developing.
Maybe it's hard work and maybe it's like,
You know what?
I'll probably never be as fit as I've ever been right now.
And then if that job changes,
Maybe you lose the job,
Maybe the company downsizes,
Who knows?
You've got all these skills and you met all these great people.
End.
You had a roof over your head,
That's awesome,
But you developed an inner confidence that's like,
Okay,
Well,
Then I can go get another job.
The difference is night and day.
Between our experience,
Because we create the experience.
Like even for me.
I literally took everything I loved.
And somehow it's my job.
And there's challenges there because,
Of course,
If I don't sell a course,
If people don't take my classes.
I can't pay rent.
That's a reality.
But every so often I sit down and think,
Wow.
You know,
And I've been self-employed for.
.
.
20,
30 years,
Like it's not new.
It's like,
Wow,
How blessed am I to have this challenge?
Like,
How lucky am I?
You know,
I can look at the fear around the fruits.
I can look at the hope for the fruits.
I can do all that.
But that will drive me absolutely crazy.
The kit will make me crazy.
And then I'll start doing things just for the money.
Just for the students,
Just for the,
You know,
And it's like that's no fun.
And then I'm not even doing my path.
And this is where it's really interesting because in the language of the Gita,
They often talk about duty.
That you have to do something because it's your duty and I don't mean this like I mean the soul's path.
Like the duty to self.
To see.
I need to follow my truth,
And my truth isn't necessarily making money.
It could be that I'm simply going to follow the path I'm called to.
And my soul is going to grow no matter where that is.
It could be being self-employed.
It could be owning a business.
It could be working for a minimum wage.
It could be working for a decent wage.
It could be whatever.
That's all just the money part.
We figure that out,
That it works.
Then it's our duty for our soul to expand wherever we find ourselves.
And it's joyful that way.
Like,
It's fun.
That's actually where we get to color in the picture.
How do I want to color in this picture?
You could have five people working the same job at the same company.
So for all intents and purposes,
They were each given a coloring sheet for that day.
How do we want to color it in?
That is up to us.
That actually isn't dictated by the circumstances.
And that's really what the joy of the non-attachment brings us.
The second big part of this teaching.
Is that you should not be attached to inaction either.
And this is a really interesting part.
Because sometimes we get confused,
And that's why I actually read the verses ahead of this.
In the previous verses they talk about,
You know,
Don't get attached to the positive and negative of things and don't get attached to money and people are all about pleasure and trying to avoid pain and you don't want to be that person.
And so there's sort of this idea that,
Oh,
We have to shun all fruits of the labor,
All money,
All success,
All everything.
And I should just sit here then.
Because I don't want money and I don't want success so we can easily fall into inaction.
But then what's happening?
We're not actually living.
We're not doing that duty to our path.
We're not actually following our Dharma.
We're not doing anything.
Because now.
We're actually still attached to the outcome.
Because we hate it now.
We're now eschewing the outcome.
We're like,
I am above money.
I'm above success.
I am above what other people think of me.
I am above all that.
So therefore.
.
.
I will not work.
And I will not be successful.
And I will not.
And I will.
And it's like,
Well,
No,
That's not it either.
And it's interesting that they include that in this little text.
They're saying,
Don't be attached to outcome.
Put all your energy into action.
But don't.
Make the fruits wrong.
If you are successful in something,
Enjoy the fruit!
Love the fruit.
Be thankful for the fruit.
I read this really cool book once.
And she talked about.
Having a spreadsheet where you keep track of every financial input you get.
And so for me,
For example,
I've got a million different places that,
You know,
I teach yoga classes.
I teach yoga teacher trainings.
I have donations from you guys.
Sometimes people buy me dinner.
Sometimes,
You know,
People take my energy grid training or they have a counseling session or whatever.
I have all these different incomes.
And so I have this spreadsheet and every time,
Anything comes across my path,
Any financial thing,
I write it in there.
I call it my blessings and I put that little thing and I have this running inventory of all the blessings that come in because I am definitely that one that is afraid of the money.
I have a real Mother Teresa poverty mentality that I think is generations back.
I come from preachers.
There's all kinds of preachers and teachers in my,
You know,
And you mustn't ever love money.
You must never.
So I have,
That's part of my journey is actually overcoming that.
So when I do my emails or I'm doing my admin,
When every time money goes into the bank,
Every time someone buys something or pays me for something,
It goes into my blessings spreadsheet.
Because we're allowed to celebrate it.
If you see a beautiful ripe peach on a tree and you decide you're going to climb that tree.
Well,
You've got to pay attention to that climb.
You can't always be staring at the peach.
Better focus on your grip.
Focus on the best way to get there.
Enjoy the view while you're climbing the tree.
You know,
Maybe help a friend up the tree.
Enjoy the birds that are nesting in the tree.
Enjoy everything.
But then when you get to that peach.
Enjoy it.
Love that,
Those beautiful,
We've got peaches ripening on our table right now,
So I'm thinking about peaches.
But we can enjoy it as well.
And so there's something really interesting about.
Enjoying the action?
Unattached to the outcome.
Then really enjoying the outcome too,
Enjoying those fruits.
It's a balanced thing.
The other thing.
Well,
There's two other things I want to mention.
One thing is.
One of the dangers of being attached to the fruits is that we start to think that life is this horizontal dimension that I start here and then I do these things and then I get this thing.
This is the point.
But what if our life isn't this horizontal plane?
What if it's.
.
.
Five-dimensional.
What if it's 12 dimensional?
And that every step we take towards the peach.
There's like so many other things going on.
There's like so many other aspects that,
You know,
You could be running a marathon.
Let's say you're going to run a marathon.
That's the goal.
So you decide,
Okay,
Then I need to make an action plan.
Maybe I need to lose a bit of weight so that it's not as hard on my knees.
Maybe I need to really start to nourish my body so that my organs and muscles are strong enough.
Maybe I need to start getting better sleep.
So I might need to change my evening routines and maybe not watch TV or play my video games and maybe to read and take magnesium.
Something so that I have better sleep and then you start sleeping better and then you start exercise and then the running is easier and then you have more brain space and you're like oh actually this recipe would be really great.
So it's this entire journey.
Training for the marathon and in the meantime you join some running groups and you start making all these new friends and you start getting outside more in the sunshine and you're getting all this natural vitamin d and happy juju from the environment and you start realizing that wow we've got great hiking trails around here and all these things are happening That's a very multi-dimensional experience of simply training for a marathon.
And then on the day the marathon comes,
Imagine that all you're thinking about the whole time.
I've never run a marathon,
So people might be able to tell me I'm crazy.
I imagine.
That if all I'm thinking about is that final,
That finish line,
I'm probably in trouble.
Because I might injure myself because I'm not paying attention to my body.
And not to mention that I'm not having any fun.
Because maybe it's a beautiful day.
And maybe the sun is shining.
And you're taking all these beautiful breaths,
And you're so grateful for this body that is carrying you on this journey.
And you're grateful for yourself for sticking to it and really doing all these wonderful things for yourself.
And then you realize there's all these amazing people.
I don't know if you guys have ever gone to a race.
I trained for a triathlon once,
And I did the triathlon.
I came dead last,
But I finished.
But I realized I was kind of addicted to attending races.
I don't even care if I'm in the race because I'm not actually,
Athletics isn't really my thing.
But there is a high being around people at races.
It is the most positive,
Amazing juju.
If you ever just need a pick-me-up and there's some 5k or a half marathon or a triathlon going on in any town close to you,
Just go and sit there and suck up all the happy juju.
It's just amazing.
So even running the marathon or the triathlon or the 5k or whatever you're doing.
There is so much happiness to just imbibe.
To just to bring into your system.
And so there's something really beautiful when we realize that every choice we make,
Every action we take,
Is truly multidimensional.
Is the goal over there what we have in our mind's eye?
100%.
But it might end up to be 1% of the whole experience.
The goal is important.
But it is just one tiny,
Tiny piece.
And then,
This is the last thing I want to mention.
Is when we have this perspective,
Every action we take gets to become this meditative experience.
We actually get to relax into it.
Focus on what we're doing.
You know,
One of the limbs of yoga is called Dharana.
And this is single pointed focus.
And one of the reasons this is a leg,
An arm,
A limb.
Of yoga.
Is because there is bliss.
In single-pointed focus.
And it doesn't matter what you're doing.
It doesn't matter whether you're writing a book.
Or vacuuming,
Or driving,
Or painting,
Or simply balancing the books or doing a spreadsheet.
It doesn't matter.
When you can have single-pointed focus,
It's like time disappears.
Time expands.
Life is good.
All your organs are happy.
Your mind is working.
There is such joy in single-pointed focus.
So this is where no matter what we're doing.
We can be meditative.
This is the real goal of meditation.
Is to develop a meditative presence so that every single thing we do we do with this very focused,
Quiet,
Calm,
Efficient mind.
And then all of a sudden,
Life is amazing.
It doesn't matter what we're doing.
It doesn't even matter whether we're going through difficulty.
Because even in difficulty,
You kind of sit there and you think.
What is this that's going on?
You know,
Like I was saying at the beginning of class that I was feeling all this real sadness.
You know,
A few days ago.
And the ability to actually sit and hold myself in that sadness,
Not try to get rid of it,
But try to get to the bottom of it.
No?
That's a very different thing than.
.
.
Freaking out like why am I so sad and it's probably your fault and if that hadn't happened and then this and then Everything you know,
That's that kind of chaotic mind that just it doesn't get us anywhere And don't get me wrong,
I like a good rant,
You know?
The development of that meditative center allows us to focus on the action.
It allows us to enjoy the journey.
It's not so simple just to say,
To enjoy the journey,
Not the destination.
This is why we're here on Insight Timer,
To actually learn new philosophies and meditate and do all these things to actually feel this beautiful center inside.
So I'm going to read it one more time.
And then I would love to know.
What your final takeaway is from our class today.
You have control over action alone,
Never over its fruits.
Live not for the fruits of action.
Nor attach yourself to inaction.
What's your takeaway from that today?
Live from joy your calling.
Enjoy the journey rather than focusing on the destination.
To enjoy the process.
That is what gives us what we need.
I like the element of surprise.
Live my life like it's a moving prayer.
Focus on what is happening now,
What you are doing now,
Feeling now,
Being now.
Hmm.
And then let it all go.
Lean into my duty calling,
Being focused on the joy of living in the moment.
To enjoy the process,
The experience of being.
Of beyond.
And building community.
Learning so much from this parsing of the Gita down to single verses.
To breathe into all parts of my soul,
Light,
And then release.
As a new teacher on this platform,
This resonates with me deeply.
I want my tracks to have a desired effect,
But ultimately I can't control how they are received.
Exactly.
I've been delaying completing or even doing my Qigong teacher training.
I'm inspired to finish it now and getting back into a healthy regular practice.
Be present.
Go for it.
Maintain the delicate balance of enjoying the journey,
But not getting attached to the outcome.
To live is to create.
Hmm.
Thank you guys so much for being here.
I hope you have a wonderful day.
Wonderful week.
And I'll see you next week unless I see you sooner.
