Let the Tao Help You Find True Success

Are you driven to achieve something? Have you ever asked yourself why are you so driven to do these things? Why do you work so hard? What is it really that you want to get in the end, and are you happy doing these things? Most people are driven to achieve something. We have seen so many people work so hard to the point that they torture themselves and others in the process. Have you ever asked yourself why this is the case? Do you really enjoy it, or are you perhaps driven by subconscious processes that are out of your control.

Isn’t that sad that you work so hard all your life only because you are out to prove something to yourself and others? Don't get us wrong, spiritual path travelers also have to work quite hard at times when the situation demands it. But there is an underlying serenity, a feeling that everything is perfect as is, and we don't put pressure on ourself and others. We just float along a strong flow that prevails at the time. The big question though, how exactly do you get there? If you just say 'I must not be competitive!" or "I must not hunger after power!" you are not solving anything.

Sometimes people have no idea about the true motivation behind their actions. They may have a vague idea that they want to succeed, that they want to be rich, that they want to be admired, that they want to be smart, but have no idea of what the real reasons behind it are. Can you imagine that you may have been teased as a child and now you hunger after power to compensate for it. Your father may have been out of a job for a couple of years and now you aspire to become the best surgeon in the world to erase the family shame. You may not consider yourself as very smart and now you put all the pressure on your daughter to get her admitted to Harvard. Or you may still carry a scar from a previous life so you were literally born with a drive to succeed that no one, including yourself, really understands.

A spiritual path often starts because you literally lose direction somewhere. Old goals that were so meaningful before suddenly have lost their attraction. If this happens to you, congratulation, we think that you are connecting with your potential to be truly successful. Most of us only start our spiritual journey when we feel lost and when we rightly conclude, there must be another way!

This loss motivates us to launch this journey to find out who we truly are and what we truly want. In this process, we start to take off layers and layers of expectations from our society, parents and friends until we get in touch of who we truly are. We are totally fresh and reborn. With our curious eyes we are able to see a new world and launch a journey in a totally different direction. We are light and fast because we carry no longer any baggage. At that stage you will find a friend, a guiding light, who you have overlooked all your life because you were too busy to look elsewhere.

The Tao can help you find your natural connection with others while avoiding the ones which are built on power games and hierarchy. The Tao can teach you how to find that natural flow of things, the presence of hard work without any pressure, as well as the flow of give and take of friends at work with a loving and serene mind set.

We hope you do really can express yourself when you are working. Work can and should be a joy. When you are really in tune with what you are doing you see the beauty of the Tao in action. Priceless connections with others manifest themselves, creativity flows out of you and become a fountain of love and joy. The trick is to know that you are successful already. You don't have to prove anything to yourself and others at all. Your success shines through and when you believe it others will acknowledge it. Your success is simply natural.

Find out what you truly love and want and let the Tao help you manifesting it. The Tao is a new perspective, it is a new way of looking at the world. As you stop looking for the glitter on the horizon you start seeing that you are standing on pure gold already. But you have to be empty inside. Let the Tao help you with this. You don't have to drop everything and become a monk in Tibet. All you have to do is to figure out what you truly love and the Tao will  show you how to find true love in the process. It is as imple as that. You will have a lot of fun and joy discovering who you truly are.

By Su Zhen and Christian