“THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION TO ASK YOURSELF”, “Creating A Satisfying New Life of Freedom and Purpose ” and “Living The Life Of Our DreamsNow So We Can Die Without Regrets”
Three short stories by Chinmayan about our bold decision to let go of our old life and our adventures and challenges as we have consciously created a new life of simple living freedom that we LOVE.
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THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION THAT I ASK MYSELF EVERYDAY
“When I am in my last days and about to leave this world
And am looking back over my life,
What is it that I will wish I had done that
I need to be doing now while I still have this
Wonderful body and this clear, unclouded mind?”
At this stage of life, when there are many more days
Behind me than may yet be before me, time
And the best use if it, has become much more important to me,
And I remind myself constantly “This is it!”
Now, when I am at the peak of my physical, mental and creative
Powers and abilities, honed and enhanced by a
Lifetime of training and experience, is my time to
Accomplish the things I was sent here to do and
Have been promising myself over all the years already
Passed that I would be doing “someday”…
That day has come and the best time is right now…
No more waiting for the best circumstances,
No more putting anything ahead of doing what is
Truly important to me…this really is IT and in
Knowing this down to the depths of my soul,
I am now moving up and moving out every day
As my heart has been calling me to do to
Achieve my dreams so that I can leave this world
Without regrets when it is my time to go.
~Chinmayan
HOW WE LET GO OF OUR OLD LIFE and CREATED A NEW LIFE WE LOVE
Time Is Our Most Important Resource That We Can’t Get More Of
Three years ago, we made a bold decision to let go of our old way of life and consciously chose to create a radically new life of simple living and focusing only on the things that are important to us.…
We closed our lucrative business, sold off the trucks and consciously chose to pursue simple living, time freedom and focusing only what is truly important to us, as our hearts had been calling us to do for years.
And the only regrets we have ever had is that we did not take those steps sooner!
A great and fulfilling Life is about much more than doing something just to earn money to “make a living” but using our precious time, energy and attention to make a life you love that makes a difference.
Yes, for us, taking those first radical steps was scary as hell but we simply could not bear using most of the hours of most of our days to keep on giving the best part of our lives to working on projects that left us drained and depressed.
Now, years into creating our new life that we love, there is no way we would go back!
One thing is that helped us move forward is that we decided to live with a very modest income by cutting out all unnecessary expenditures and focus only on absolute necessities…which gives us tremendous time freedom.
Life is no longer about making and spending money but about how we use our time.
Money can be replaced or earned but once you spend time on anything you can’t replace it…to us, time is far more precious and important!
Now, we invest our golden time into writing and producing our daily inspirational magazine here on Substack and are gearing up to launch books, films, courses and other projects that are all geared towards giving real, practical help to our readers and community.
~Chinmayan
Creating our new life has been and still is an amazing adventure and journey that we want to share with you through an on going series of stories that we are publishing here every Sunday in the “Sunday Edition” of “The Dawning Light Magazine” in our STILL MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES Section.
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LIVING THE NEW LIFE WE CHOSE and LOVE FULL OUT NOW SO WE CAN FACE DEATH WITH A SMILE and NO REGRETS
One of the first things my teacher Kalu Rinpoche, a highly realized meditation master who was one of the first of the great Tibetan lamas to bring the dharma to the west in 1972, taught us is called “The Four Ends”, which are intended to lay out the realities of life to inspire us not to waste the precious opportunities we have as a human being…
THE FOUR ENDS
The end of all building is ruin…
The end of all accumulation is dispersion…
The end if all meeting is parting…
And The end of all birth is death…
It is highly motivating to me confront the reality that we all will have to face dying ourselves and the fact that no matter how much we love our beloved and family, everything on earth is temporary and that we will be inevitably separated.
Knowing this, I also know how precious life and each day is…and this knowing makes me stay grateful and aware and ever more dedicated to not waste the opportunities life offers, to live life full out, to be loving and caring towards all, to focus on attaining active relationship with God through prayer and meditation and do the real work I was sent here to do.
This is why we consciously chose to stop our old life which caused us so much stress and pain to create our new life in which we focus only on our relationship with each other, with God, our spiritual practices,our service to the world and being present and fully enjoying each moment.
The goal is to live so fully in alignment with our hearts and spirits so that when the time of parting comes, we can die with a smile with no regrets….
~Chinmayan
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—Chinmayan
