Spiritual Secrets - Balance: A Key Principle for Success

The state of balance is a vital ingredient in the recipe for success, whatever our part, whatever our calling, whatever our vocation in word balance, is the key. What is balance balance of the human heart balance of human emotions, balance of the human mind, States, which is neither two tens? No true, relax the middle path. Ratham buddha used to call it the middle path. There is a Sufi story which reminds us of this virtue called balance. There was a Sufi master who had a brilliant disciple. Now this disciple had a strange habit when everybody else was doing their meditation or their exercise in the shade. This boy used to go out into the beating Sun or when it was raining outside who each to insist upon going out in the rain catching a cold, putting his body through great hardship. The master was wondering: why does this boy put himself through such great hardship when he can easily choose an easier way so one day he went to that boy and he asked him he says. I have heard that before you came to this monastery. You used to play the musical instrument, the stringed instrument. It was an old stringed instrument which used to be played by this board. He used to come from a very good family and he was known as a very famous instrument player, something like the sitar but a very ancient instrument, so the master said used to play the instrument. Now I want to ask you a question: could you play it properly if the strings of the instrument were too tight, so the disciple thought - and he said no, if the strings are too tight, the string would snapped. I would not be able to play on the instrument, so the master said. Oh, you will not be able to play on the instrument of the strings that you died, but now, if the strings are too loose, have you played on the instrument when the strings were too loose, so the boy thought a moment and he said honestly: hey do You know if the strings are too loose: it'll just be noise, there'll be no music coming out of it. So the master said exactly if the strings of your heart of your soul of your mind are too tight. The music of your life will not be played. It'Ll snap you'll break yourself into. Why are you putting yourself through such mental torture, such hardship there's an easier way to do it, but at the same time, if the strings are too loose, like you said, they'll just be just noise, they'll be just only a cacophony. No music, so I appreciate your discipline, but the problem is you have taken it from that extreme of being too loose to this other extreme of being too tight, be somewhere in the middle, be relaxed, don't be so relaxed that you're useless, but don't be so tightly Wound that you will break and isn't that the fundamental problem in our work life, sometimes we feel hopeless to loose being able to do nothing and sometimes we feel absolutely tense in a state of abject terror. Either way success is bound not to happen. We have all heard the saying all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, but I say to you all play and no work also makes Jack a dull boy. Now the new paradigm of work is to mix fun and seriousness. The companies which have done exceedingly well, the Facebook's of the world, the Google's of the world, have understood that their employees are to be in a state of balance to have an intense amount of fun, but at the same time, working as hard as they can. You know there is to be a sign at Microsoft offices, saying while I'm awake I'm working now, they used to follow that dictum very hard work, but over the last few years we've seen this scenario change even in the IT sector, because that 2/10 and people snap People, you know they take early retirement, they're no good to the company anymore, and they find look for new meaning in life to make the workplace meaningful. It must be a holistic environment. The way we react with each other. The way we relate to our bosses to our employees, to our company to our organization as a whole is a state of balance. Even organizations must understand this. How do themselves be balanced in their expectations, so all-around balance creates sharpness intelligence, ultimately, a higher level of achievement and success.
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