The Ad above my office lift said “become a new you”. Question “How?” It was referring to Pilates programs, yet there is something else for us.
Dr Deepak Chopra concluded his book “The Future of God” saying “what changed my life had nothing to do in the end with who I was as a person and the labels I attached to myself, even the positive ones. Like heaven, the illusion I lived in came with upgrades, none of that really mattered. What mattered was I shifted into a new mode of living, beginning with an empty feeling inside and working from there to fill the vacuum. Every day I did what I always did, getting up before dawn, making hospital rounds and seeing a stream of patients.”
He said the difference was “I aligned myself with my Being.” The verb “dahar”, to uphold, leads to a way of life held in the universe called dharma. In everyday words, get to know yourself and you will be in your dharma, which comes to one crucial thing – trusting Being to give you a course direction providing hints about a higher reality where you feel subtly wrong when you veer into ego and selfishness.
Being speaks silently but existence is tilted in its favour and a few hidden advantages are now tucked away in our lives for good.
For good food, fun, fellowship and the privilege of being in ourselves and in others in Rotary service.
Thank you to Peter Hollingworth for providing this reflection on 27 April 2022.
