Mais ensinamentos do Livro “O Poder do Agora”, sobre os ciclos de sucesso e fracasso durante a vida.
“There are cycles of success, when things come to you and
thrive, and cycles of failure, when they wither or disintegrate and you have to
let them go in order to make room for new things to arise, or for
transformation to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means you
are refusing to go with the flow of life, and you will suffer.
It is not true that the up cycle is good and the down cycle
bad, except in the mind’s judgment. Growth is usually considered positive, but
nothing can grow forever. If growth, of whatever kind, were to go on and on, it
would eventually become monstrous and destructive. Dissolution is needed for
new growth to happen. One cannot exist without the other.
The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual
realization. You must have failed deeply on some level or experienced some deep
loss or pain to be drawn to the spiritual dimension. Or perhaps your very
success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be failure. Failure
lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure. In this world,
which is to say on the level of form, everybody “fails” sooner or later, of
course, and every achievement eventually comes to naught. All forms are
impermanent…
…A Buddhist monk once told me: “All I have learned in the
twenty years that I have been a monk I can sum up in one sentence: All that
arises passes away. This I know.” What he meant, of course, was this: I have learned
to offer no resistance to what is; I have learned to allow the present moment
to be and to accept the impermanent nature of all things and conditions. Thus
have I found peace.”
O Poder do Agora, páginas 186-187
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