Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect
“You can’t pour from an empty cup”. First you have to fill your cup, then pour into others. In other words, “you have to be more to give more”.
I beg your pardon for my radio silence of the last few weeks. Asides the fact that I’ve been preoccupied by personal life events that demanded my undivided attention, I’ve also been in the school of life, learning to be more, that I may give more. Suffice to say that in the time I’ve been away, invaluable lessons were learned, particularly the paradoxical and humbling realisation of how far I’ve come in my journey of self-realisation, yet how little I’ve grown and still, how great I can be.
Perhaps the most pleasing thing about this platform is that I get to teach all the things I need to learn, and every time you teach something you’ve learned, you get to learn it twice. As I’ve alluded to a number of times, all of the topics I write about oftentimes highlight areas of my own life that I’m ‘challenged by’ and ‘working on’ which I try to journalise and share. So I write humbly as an avowed student of the school of life and by no means a finished article as some might assume.
In the words of Peter Crone, “life will present you with people and circumstances to reveal areas of life where you’re not free”. Even though I’d long committed myself to a growth path, accrued significant hours in daily meditation and the deliberate seeking of wisdom, all of which I assumed amounted to growth, life reminded me quickly that the journey I embarked on is indeed a perpetual cycle and that one can’t play the infinite game using finite rules.
Some events in recent weeks revealed a gamut of emotions/behaviours I thought I’d jettisoned, which in turn revealed areas of my life that still require deep work. My point is, we learn these principles, think we know them, then life teaches us that it does take a life-time to realise them. You don’t get to learn it, know it and be done. It is a moment to moment practice to deal with the complexities of this world in a way that is loving and kind to oneself and others. In this perpetually perplexing paradigm called life, it becomes increasingly wise to admit our own foolishness, and to continuously seek to free ourselves from the darkness of our own ignorance by constantly cultivating a deeper seeking, understanding and practice of the absolute truth. Life is school, Life is the greatest teacher, we just have to be willing and submissive students.
Remember - “Practice doesn’t make perfect, it merely reduces imperfections” - Toba Beta
Peace, Love and Light.