TWO-MINUTE MONK
Ancient wisdom for modern life, every Monday.

🧘 Monk Thought

💡 Monk Light

We’re taught to chase outcomes. Work hard, get the reward. Study hard, get the grade. Fight hard, get the trophy.

But what happens when the outcome doesn’t arrive?

In the Bhagavad Gita, the God Krishna offers spiritual advice to the warrior Aruna before an immense battle. He advises him not to think of the outcome, but to focus on his own personal destiny. His dharma.

“Do your work,” he counsels. “But forget about the result.”

It’s not fatalism. It’s freedom.

Freedom to act. Freedom to try. Freedom to build.

But done with focus, not fixation.

Destiny, in this view, isn’t a finish line. It’s how you show up: detached, but devoted.

Let go of what comes next. That part was never yours.

The Gita formed part of the much larger Mahabharata, written around 200BC, combining Vedic thought, Upanishadic philosophy and early yogic teachings to form the bedrock of Hinduism.

👣 Monk Move

Today, do one task just for the doing.

Write the email. Make the call. Clean the space.

But release the result.

Repeat to yourself:

“This is mine to do. The outcome is not.”