Hurry Slowly

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice.  Better than knowledge is meditation.  But  better still is surrender to the attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
The Bhagavad Gita

Hmmm!  What does that beautiful piece of wisdom from the Gita mean and how does it apply to our practical lives? 

Knowledge...conceptually knowing why we do what we do... is better than blindly and numbly going around doing one activity after another without our awareness of its purpose  and only because everyone else is doing it. Yet...meditation is better than conceptual knowledge. Being able to put aside "thinking" for the true understanding that comes with "Self" awareness is meditation. But even better than meditation is this surrendering, this letting go of a need to control the outcomes, this acceptance of Life as it is. This is what brings peace.

We don't stop doing and we don't stop "being" ( meditating) we just find the balancing point between the two which is surrender to what is.

There is an old Latin phrase that helps us to remember to keep balance between the doing and the being: Fetina Lente or "Hurry Slowly".

All is well!