Live fully, die fully, and then come alive, again, and again || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)
Listener: Can we do music, study and exercise together, successfully?
Speaker: Sagar is asking, can I be into music, studies and exercising simultaneously.
No, never simultaneously! Never simultaneously. I would not really enjoy if you are exercising right now? Or if you are singing right now. Right now there can be only one music and only one exercise. Simultaneity in that sense, is not possible, and not welcome either; should not even be attempted. One thing at one go.
A Zen monk has said that, “When I eat, I eat; when I walk, I walk; when sleep, I sleep.”
We live in a different way. When we walk then we are talking in our heads, when we are eating then we are planning ‘when am I going to study’ and such things. And there is a great deal of parallel actions going on, obviously which is imaginary, because in reality actions can never be parallel. Existence does not allow multi-tasking. It says, “One thing at a time.” That’s the first thing for you. One thing at a time. And whatever is happening, that one particular thing, must be happening fully, 100 %. One thing at a time and that thing must be 100%. That is the first thing I am saying.
