We often defend a bad choice by pointing to a worse one: stay dishonest or starve, keep the wrong grip or stop playing. But the real trouble is not the option we picked. It is the option we never let ourselves see. Action does not need greed or attachment to find its energy. The third way begins by rejecting both false choices, without knowing what comes next. Which of our everyday choices are really false dilemmas?
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Acharya Prashant: How many of you are into some sport? Anything that’s popular here: cricket, badminton, tennis, anything, hockey, football. Have you experienced or have you seen it in others that once you are set in the wrong kind of technique it becomes difficult to correct your motion, action, stance, grip, whatever it is? Have you seen that? In fact, with the wrong kind of technique, you can actually attain some kind of skill, performance, even success, right? And then a coach steps in and tells you to give up on your old ways because they will not allow you to progress beyond a point, right? “Don’t hold the racket this way. That’s not the correct stance. You’re leaning too much on the back. With this kind of a grip, your serve won’t have much power,” right? This is what the coach says. But you have been playing tennis or cricket or badminton since long, five years or eight years, ten years maybe, and you are identified with your ways. You have gained a certain familiarity and therefore comfort. The promise of the coach is if you correct your technique, you will play better, enjoy more, and probably even win more, right? But what you experience, now comes the interesting part, is just the opposite. You have been fairly successful with your incorrect, at least mediocre technique. But when the coach corrects you, you find your game has just broken down. Instead of improvement, what you are experiencing is a breakdown. Everything reduced to pieces. The whole flow has become incoherent. Have you experienced this? Has it happened with you?
