Do Your Work and Let Go
For the last week or so, I have been reflecting on a teaching from the Bhagavad Gita , which instructs that we should do our work - and then let it go... More specifically, the teaching is really about how we are never entitled to the fruits of our actions. It is certainly our choice whether to act or not in a situation. We are in "control" of that, so to speak, but we are never in control of the outcome of our actions. It does not belong to us. It belongs to God. So teaches this text, beloved to so many... And by the way, even our choice not to act - it is in itself an action. So, we are never truly free from choice... In some ways, this is very freeing - if we truly understand the teaching and internalize it. And if we do, it means we must let go of all expectations - and if we truly do that - then we cannot really feel hurt by what others do - or do not do, in our lives... In fact, we wouldn't even be concerned with what others do or do not. (Am I sounding lik...