I was just thinking on the above question...what I am doing..? i got so many answers that: i am a software engg, and leading a life, i am son of my parents looking after them, brother for my sister/brother who is taking care of them, i am an Indian & i am citizen of this and so on we can add 100 things on to this.
And when i think all these things i realized that, its just the world that i have created, i have created all this relationships & i am playing this game with the rules of it, so these are all my relationship to the outside world, which gives me an identity that i am so & so.
But what i am doing..? I am an engineer (or whatever) and hence i must earn a livelihood or society expects it of you, that’s form of
compulsion; because of compulsion although we are ambitious of we are doing something we will do things because of some compulsion, we will go to office because of some compulsion, we earn because of some compulsion, we marry because of some compulsion, we will become responsible because of some compulsion...it goes on till the end, these compulsions are the power to do something better than anybody else. I think this constant endeavor
to be something, to become
something, is the real cause for all our struggles. And the driving force behind this is "Ambition", Ambition is really a form of power, the desire for power over myself and
over others. there is a sense of comparison;
We have heard people say that, without ambition, we cannot do anything.
In our schools we encouraged by our parents, teachers or others to compete, to be better than somebody else., same in case of our social life, in profession , in our relationship with each other,
in anything we do in life, we feel that ambition is necessary to
achieve a certain end, To achieve an end, to have the drive we will struggle, there is this constant struggle. What happens in this process is that we will lost.., we will start our life from nothing and by all these "Ambition" we become something but still we feel we are some thing else or we may feel we are missing some thing....Because you want to achieve an end, you become thoughtless, we are so busy in this unending race that we will dont even think why we are doing all this...And that is what we call living.
Is there a different way of doing things without ambition, a different
way of living, acting, building, inventing, without this struggle of
competition in which there is cruelty and which ultimately ends in war within our-self. I think there is a different way, But that way requires doing something
contrary to all the established customs of thought. When we are seeking a
result, the important thing is the result, not the thing we do, in
itself.
