Suppose you want to study painting because to paint is the joy of your life, and your father says that you must become a lawyer or a businessman, otherwise he will cut you off and not pay for your education, there is then a contradiction in you, is there not?
Now, how are you to remove that inner contradiction, to be free of the struggle and the pain of it?
As long as you are caught in self-contradiction you cannot think; so you must remove the contradiction, you must do one thing or the other. Which will it be?
Will you yield to your father? If you do, it means that you have put away your joy, you have wed something which you do not love; and will that resolve the contradiction?
Whereas, if you withstand your father, if you say, "Sorry, I don't care if I have to beg, starve, I am going to paint", then there is no contradiction; then being and doing are simultaneous, because you know what you want to do and you do it with your whole heart.
But if you become a lawyer or a businessman while inside you are burning to be a painter, then for the rest of your life, you will be a dull, weary human being living in torment, in frustration, in misery, being destroyed and destroying others.
Courtesy: JK
Now, how are you to remove that inner contradiction, to be free of the struggle and the pain of it?
As long as you are caught in self-contradiction you cannot think; so you must remove the contradiction, you must do one thing or the other. Which will it be?
Whereas, if you withstand your father, if you say, "Sorry, I don't care if I have to beg, starve, I am going to paint", then there is no contradiction; then being and doing are simultaneous, because you know what you want to do and you do it with your whole heart.
But if you become a lawyer or a businessman while inside you are burning to be a painter, then for the rest of your life, you will be a dull, weary human being living in torment, in frustration, in misery, being destroyed and destroying others.
Courtesy: JK