14th June 2024
It’s been over half a year since I wrote a blog post and I have missed it dearly. An unedited place to let the soul flow. Many podcast discussions, posts and learning but the one place that feels safe and sacred is writing my own thoughts down. I don’t know how this will end. Isn’t it exciting, but also scary?
I have heard the phrase ‘Path of The Pathless’, I want to explore what does it really mean to walk our own path. Specifically for me, I am exploring what I really want to do in my life, what does this feel like?
Many people in corporate says be compliant follow the rules, ‘good man’. Directors and managements says, ‘finance is the bottom line’, needing to motivate you with a ‘carrot or a stick’. What happens if I am motivated by neither? Is it necessary to continue in such an environmnet where your talents are not utilised fully? How to know when to keep ‘your head down and work’ as a colleague says? How to know when real supression is occuring, where there is uncoconsciousness? In a culture dominated by the mind how can the voice of the heart be understood? Is life meant to be lived in monotony of following rules, what is the ‘right thing’? Why do I feel so fake and everything feels so real. When alone why does it feel real but everything so fake?
Many religions of different robes and colours say varied things. Chant this, remember that. Motivation turns into apathy is it worth sharing my thoughts and emotions when they may be considered ‘unripe’ in the eyes of higher perspective teachings? Why does both these environments invoke a feeling of unworthiness? Yet the music, maths and nature takes us to the place of that powerful mystery.
Many spiritual teachers and guides, manifest this, quantum jump here, there and everywhere. Many soft slow words, many motivational speeches, do this and do that! *accumuluation effect*. How can this mind be satisfied with the outside? What direction to follow, what status to achieve, what financial goal to set, what skill to master, what opinions to hold dearly?
Many conficting persepectives inside and out. As I watch this play the only harmonic perspective is the voice within, it doesn’t ask for money, or certain actions, just to be in devotion and recieve devotion. In a world where boundaries are confusing and burnout is high, how can we truly keep giving and giving without mentioning ‘I’?
Am I being selfish? Am I being too much? Yet we stay in our little box fearful to express or play big. It might be an ego trip and delusional? Why does so much self-doubt arise? Why validation is needed, to be accepted to be good enough? How can I stop this pleasing plague and tune in to that stillness?
Who follows and who leads? The leader walks and the path is created. Only you can be that leader. That world where there are no rules. The stillness speaks and impulse from the heart. Similar rules are created for the mind to travel but cannot grasp the ruleless domain.
What support is there, for decisions, actions and words? What to rely on? Your own heart it seems, and those who point you back there over and over again. Is the path set or can it be changed? I don’t know, but it feels unsafe, yet a voice calls from inside, a subtle notion. An expression to break and create, form and reform which you or I may not even comprehend.
Give permission, allow yourself, truest acceptance. This comes up time and time again in my coaching clients and for myself. Without any judgement, lay the heart out, the vulnerability of an open heart such raw power and freedom.
I invite this expression to lead your bravery and devotion to walk your pathless path.
-Jhoty 🙂
Jhoty 