Live Life With Reckless Abandon
One of the 19 Instructions of life the Dalai Lama gives is “Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.” This advice follows the same principle but on a very different level.
With both love and cooking it’s often what you put in that you get out.
If you approach love while holding back the person you are giving that love to will never fully understand you for who you are.
You will never be hurt as bad as you could be because you are holding who you are back, but also you won’t ever be able to be loved as fully, for both are not truly all of you so whether the person hurts you or loves you it will not be towards everything you are.
Cooking, in that sense, is the same, as the more things you try the more you learn, and while some dishes fail completely, others shine ever so brightly.
None of which happens if you hold anything back.
The only thing that happens when you hold yourself back out of fear of failure, out of not knowing what will come of it, or out of the worry of the future is that you will experience the regret of what might have been had you let go of all restrictions.
Life, as a whole, follows the same principle.
The more you hold back as you are walking through life the less you will be to…
