There Is No HOW

I have never thought of it this way. But you are correct. When it comes to things in the material domain, from success to wealth to whatever it may be, there is zero tolerance for any notion that has an indefinite timeline. If after twenty or thirty years of doing something I have failed, then it absolutely means that what I have been doing does no

If you do not desire something in the depth of your bones, you will have an endless tolerance for failure. If you do desire something in the depth of your bones, you will have little tolerance for failure. As Buddha had. And once the prescriptions fail, as they always do, you will be forced to find your own way.

When Buddha practiced prescriptions, he did not reach his goal. As he himself proclaimed that he had eaten one grain of rice per day and drank his own urine and meditated for years and was no closer to wisdom than he was when he left his father’s house. But he did not achieve Enlightenment solely because he left the prescriptions. He achieved Enlig

One reason is that the prescriptions will undoubtedly cause the human to shift his focus from the goal to the prescription itself. In doing so, he will make endless attempts to satisfy the prescription. And thus, the goal will fall by the wayside.

All things lead back to seriousness and sincerity. Sincerity, not in a moral sense. But in the sense of a true and genuine and pure desire to reach one’s goal. S: Most humans simply are not this way. M: Most humans like to play games. They are window-shoppers, band-wagon-jumpers, and fad-followers. Such is the effect of societal conditioning.

If you do not desire something in the depth of your bones, you will have an endless tolerance for failure. If you do desire something in the depth of your bones, you will have little tolerance for failure. As Buddha had. And once the prescriptions fail, as they always do, you will be forced to find your own way. S: So the only people who continue t

Reality is not sweet. Life is not sweet. Truth is not sweet. The question that matters is not if something is sweet or not. The question that matters is how desperately one seeks to reach his goal, whatever that goal may be. If he desperately wishes to reach his goal . . . if he longs for a particular outcome . . . he will not be swayed by sweetnes

Master, what about pursuits such as in sports, business, the performing arts . . . Are prescriptions equally poisonous in those domains. M: Yes. S: But there is a technique to those things, is there not. M: There are indeed some mechanical elements. Such as physical technique. And, as they apply to a mechanical element, prescriptions may be of some

Because never in your life have you met a person who did not have a ‘message’ for you, or attempt to ‘lead’ you somewhere, or get you to ‘do something.’ Whether it was ‘for your own good’ or not. Regardless of whether it was benevolent, evil, well-intentioned, or holy.