Dear,
There are two ways in which we can look at success.
The first way comes from the brain, which is a product of evolution and is continuously afraid. The archetype of this type of success is exemplified by the event of examinations. So today you are here, a date-sheet comes, examinations are announced. You prepare, you write your exams, somebody evaluates your sheets and then on a particular day a result is put up, and that determines whether you are successful or not. Right? This is the first model of success.
This is the model of success that ninety-nine percent of the world thinks to be success; that there is something to be achieved in the future. And that something that you want to achieve is also hugely dependent upon others. Getting it?
There is somebody else who evaluates you. There is somebody else who declares that you are successful. Situations have a great role in determining if you are successful or not. This is the first model in which success always lies in the future and is always influenced by others.
So two things are very dominant in this first model, which is that success is not right now, success is in the future.
Second, this success depends not only on me but upon various external factors, external people, and external situations. Getting it? This is the first model of success.
There is a second way of looking at success. This is the moment that I am speaking to you right now. You could not possibly be listening to me in the past or in the future. I am not speaking to you in the past and future has not come yet. This moment is all that we have, this is where all life is. This is where we are breathing, this is where our heart is pumping blood and this is where we are listening. This is when life is. This is when attention is and love is.
This moment is all I have, and this moment is this moment only, in attention, only when I am present to it. This moment and my presence in this moment; this is all I have. This is life, this moment makes me firmly grounded in the present instead of future. And when I say, ‘This moment and MY attention’, that rules out others. ‘MY attention this moment, and only MY attention.’ So future is ruled out and others are ruled out, and all success is in THIS moment, not in the future. And this success is not at all dependent on others.
Have you heard the word ‘ignorance’? By ‘ignorance’ we mean ‘lack of knowledge’. We say, ‘An ignorant fellow’.The word ‘ignorance’ actually means ‘the capacity to ignore’. Ignore what? Can you ignore that which is not there at all? What can you ignore? What can you ignore? That which is there.
Nothing else is available to be ignored, only that which is there can be ignored. Right now, what can you ignore? Can you ignore the words that are being said in the adjacent room? Can you ignore those words? You cannot ignore those words because those words are not there at all for you, are they for you?
What can you ignore right now? These words.
What can you ignore right now? This presence.
What can you ignore right now? This environment.
This is ignorance. This is failure. This is what is meant by being a loser. ‘Life is going on, it’s a big festival and instead of celebrating I am ignoring it. It’s passing by me.’
‘There is a grand party going on and what am I doing? I am standing at the margins with a long face and drooping shoulders.’ Join the party. That’s what success is, nothing else. The party is not in the future, there are no results to be declared. It’s right now, a grand carnival.
In every moment there is no moment that doesn’t have the potential of ecstasy, even this moment-all moments.
That is success. Getting it?
Success is not about setting targets and achieving them, not at all. After all, future flows seamlessly from this moment. If I am present right now, then I am automatically building a future for myself.
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