![]() You don’t want to be the next Oprah, right? Oprah is cool because she is herself. That’s not bad for talking with people on the couch, right? How to Be the Next Oprah. Not really… Oprah’s so good at it, in fact, that her salary in 2007 was estimated at $260 million by Forbes. She was passionate about communicating with women when no one else in broadcasting really cared. Oprah does what she loves, and she’s been enormously well rewarded for it. The classic example of the “follow your passion straight to the bank” idea is Oprah Winfrey. Not only will you feel better about yourself and provide more value to others, you’ll also end up making more money.įollow your passion, the thinking goes, and the money will follow. So far, so good, right? But sometimes the thinking goes even further. According to this thinking, work should involve a number of things you really like to do and are really good at, not simply a series of tasks you do to make a living. If there is one common theme to most of these books, it is that “following your passion” – or doing what you love to do-is the most important work we can focus on in life. Like most books of any kind, each one usually has some things worth learning and some things that aren’t valuable to me. Try Me.I read a lot of personal development books-probably at least two a month. As I have already invested a large volume of Energy for this purpose, you shall find it Supportive, Exhilarating, or even Ecstatic. Use a picture if necessary or just close your eyes and Be with me. Six twenty in the morning and evening is best. In that sense, I am telling you, “Be with me.” Wherever you are, try and Be with me, for a specific time. Something that is always striving to energetically destroy your boundaries. So, be with something that supports your being. In simply being, you are not making up anything anymore. Doing, thinking, means you are making up something. Being means you are absolutely in reality. In ignorance, there are brief moments that are truly wonderful, when you are not seeing the reality. If you jump off from a tall building, it is really wonderful – till you hit the ground. Ignorance is bliss – till you hit the ground. They have also told you “ignorance is bliss.” But if that was so, by now the entire world population should be totally blissed out. “This is my personality” means “this is my limitation.” People are saying it proudly, out of ignorance. Something that will destroy your identifications. Something that will not enhance your identity. When you are trying to Be, it is important that you are Being with something that is energetically supportive. When we are being, there are no limitations. When we are doing, our terrain is limited – no matter how big our action may be. We need to get this idea out of people’s heads that yoga means some impossible posture. In the ultimate sense, yoga means to become one with everything. When there is no something, no this or that, when everything becomes one, there is union – that is called yoga. As the word yoga has become popular – like any other four-letter word – people have started using it to refer to something. In simply Being, you become one with everything.īeing essentially means yoga. The moment action comes – whether in body, mind, emotion, or energy – there have to be two or more entities. When you are doing, you have to do something with something or somebody. Everything in this existence is “me, me, and me alone.” That is the beauty of Being. When you are truly a Being, there is only one. ![]() In a physical sense, maybe you can be with somebody. “I am being with somebody” is only a phrase. If you can really Be without any sense of doing, there is no such thing as Being with. But this “Just be” thing that is propagated in popular culture is nothing but mental circus – people only think they are Being. In that sense, “Be with me” is only a ploy. In trying to Be with me, there is still doing involved. So I am telling you, “Be with me.” In doing, there is this and that. Either in body, mind, emotion, or energy, you have to do something. Or if I say, “Don’t do anything” – that is one thing you cannot do. If I say, “Simply Be,” you do not know what it means. Essentially, everything that we are attempting in Isha is to bring you this sense of Being. But unfortunately, how many humans are really Being – that is the big question. ![]() Human Beings are significant because of the quality of their Being. Human Beings are not significant because of what they do. That means it is significant even if it is not doing anything. There is no greater honor for any species than to be a Being. There is no such thing as a tiger-being, elephant-being, reptile-being, or cockroach-being – only Human Being. Humans are the only species on the planet that are referred to as Being. ![]()
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