In this book, Osho examines Taoism through stories, parables and life and teachings of Lieh Tzu. There is no technique to Tao Tao is nature.
TAO THE PATHLESS PATH FREE
I wanted to study in India’s premier Ivy League management institution and realized that an engineering degree in a premier institution would go well with an MBA and went on to study mechanical engineering, keeping my final destination in mind.Includes a Free Audio CD Osho says, Tao is the greatest possible ideal for man but there is no guided path to it. Seeing my successful cousin, growing up I wanted to copy-paste his life script. Your career choices get appropriated from your Ivy League cousins. You tacitly agree to play the gospel as a karmic payback duty for your parents' lifetime of sweat and hard work. The trouble with upfront capital investment is that you are never going to invest in that capital again anymore. No wonder there was pressure to make sure that you got that capital right.ī) Twelfth grades right (as the case in India)ĭ) MBA GPA right. In personal life, it meant that education was the best upfront capital investment you could make for your life. Industrial Age flourished all over the world because the economic machine was built on the basis of high capital investment. "Study Well ->Get Good Grades -> Get Good Jobs ->Live Your Good Life". If you've grown up in India, you would exactly know what I am talking about.Įarly on, you are taught the Industrial Age's Divine Gospel for success. As the cards of my life had played out, my parents were much older than most of my friends’ parents and I wanted to race up the ladder to jobs and good life faster than anyone else. I wanted to be that special creamy one at the top. I was naive enough to believe a myth floating around that my school gave exclusive double promotion for its crème de la crème. I wasn’t content spending the best part of my childhood with didactic books that bored me to death and extra-curricular classes that gobbled up my social life. I wasn’t content securing the top rank in a farcical joke called examination to assess my “academic performance”. There was a time in my life when the only thing that mattered to me the most was a double promotion. In order to explore these questions, I will have to tell you my life story. What has been my relationship with work? How does my dharma and artha play out in my relationship with work? Dharma and Dharmasankata is an attempt to make sense of the four purusarthas - Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha for the times we live in. You are welcome to become a paid subscriber, which comes with no additional perks but lots of gratitude. To learn more about this newsletter, what it is, what it is no t, you can read more here. Namaskar! Welcome to the sixth edition of my newsletter: Dharma and Dharmasankata: Infrequent Meditations to Discover the Best You Can Be Using Indic Wisdom. What has been my relationship with work? And why am I talking about this book in this blog about discovering indic wisdom? Let’s dive in. It was a moving conversation about the similarities of lives lived across Mylapore and Connecticut, the struggles involved in quitting full-time jobs and choice-making frameworks that stem from inherited life scripts that he calls “Default Path”, and the opportunities that present themselves when we move from default paths and embrace the “pathless path”. I chatted with him earlier this week and dialogued about the book. It’s a profound, radioactive book that will make you re-examine the choices you have made in your relationship with work and life. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been slow-reading Paul Millerd’s book, Pathless Path. Even though kindle estimates that I should be done with the book by 2.5 hours, it’s almost impossible to breeze through the book in one shot without pausing and reflecting on what each of the reflections means to me in my life context. What is your relationship with work? Who are you when you are not working?
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