[Anonymous]

This is my morsel or golden nugget for the day.

Follow your passion is what wise men say to fools because they know the fools will do it anyway. Let me explain. A passion is as fickle as a person’s heart. A passion changes and evolves and we have more than one passion. A passion is a bit like a shadow. We have free will and can learn to enjoy anything. First, our responsibility is to preserve life. Then we could follow our passions or find deeper meaning by finding a vocation or calling which involves all our skills or most of them.

This is good news for us. I doubt anyone here is passionate about answering a slew of trick questions, yet rest assured, there is no better position we could achieve for realizing our full potential. Persevere and do not have doubts. So you want to be a famous dancer or in Hollywood? What does it profit a person to lose their soul? Nay. Instead, do the steady work which feeds and sustains life and truly take this inspiration and let it trickle down into our other “passion” bins!

Don’t chase a flame. Be like the earth, water, air, and fire, not just the fire.

In case you’re wondering how I discovered this morsel of thought, all I did was listen to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJS98i7Ci8Q

while doing pv questions in Wiley…so you could that I am like study-monk in that I listen to monk music while I study

Shout outs to study monks!

[vanadium3]

Hmm…debatable, but I hope you are right in my case!

CPA

[vanadium3]

Hmm…debatable, but I hope you are right in my case!

CPA

[Anonymous]

Debatle? Hey man we're all on a different echelon looking at the same diamond….Lucy in the sky? Why why why!

[Anonymous]

Debatle? Hey man we're all on a different echelon looking at the same diamond….Lucy in the sky? Why why why!

[Study Monk]

You want to switch names 🙂

I spoke to an ancient wise man who sent me on a mushroom induced journey through an ancient forest to find the key to passing the CPA exam. A talking spider monkey told me to throw the last of my drinking water in the dirt to find what I was looking for. So I followed his instructions and the following message appeared in the soil:

"Do 5000 multiple choice questions for each section"

[Study Monk]

You want to switch names 🙂

I spoke to an ancient wise man who sent me on a mushroom induced journey through an ancient forest to find the key to passing the CPA exam. A talking spider monkey told me to throw the last of my drinking water in the dirt to find what I was looking for. So I followed his instructions and the following message appeared in the soil:

"Do 5000 multiple choice questions for each section"

[Study Monk]

Funny enough most of what your saying was a big motivator for me to start again with the CPA. After I left accounting 5 years back it was very hard for me to pursue the CPA exam. I was waiting to find something that I was passionate about. Towards my last year as a butcher and associate team leader at Whole Foods I realized not only was I not passionate about the job but it wasn't providing me with the opportunity to maximize my chances of survival(aka comfortable living without uncertainties). If ten years down the line I was fired there is very little transferability with similar incomes that would provide for my future family.

I realized that waiting for me to find something I am passionate about has been holding me back. I also realized that it was the intangibles that I was really looking for in a job. I was looking to be respected and to grow as a person by challenging myself in new ways. In today's society many of us will be producers, but finding a job where we can respect ourselves while living comfortably is what is really important. There is a fine line between passion and fantasy. Also passion can be manipulated as you suggested by finding value in what you are doing by changing your way of thinking. As we get older I believe it is less about what we are doing and more about whether what we are doing is helping the ones we love(financial security).

On a semi-related topic studying for the CPA exam can be a great exercise in finding your inner-buddha. Through your long ours of studying you learn how to cope with suffering. You develop concentration and mindfulness by focusing on the material with your undivided attention. You also give up activities that are tension relieving for those that are goal achieving.

I spoke to an ancient wise man who sent me on a mushroom induced journey through an ancient forest to find the key to passing the CPA exam. A talking spider monkey told me to throw the last of my drinking water in the dirt to find what I was looking for. So I followed his instructions and the following message appeared in the soil:

"Do 5000 multiple choice questions for each section"

[Study Monk]

Funny enough most of what your saying was a big motivator for me to start again with the CPA. After I left accounting 5 years back it was very hard for me to pursue the CPA exam. I was waiting to find something that I was passionate about. Towards my last year as a butcher and associate team leader at Whole Foods I realized not only was I not passionate about the job but it wasn't providing me with the opportunity to maximize my chances of survival(aka comfortable living without uncertainties). If ten years down the line I was fired there is very little transferability with similar incomes that would provide for my future family.

I realized that waiting for me to find something I am passionate about has been holding me back. I also realized that it was the intangibles that I was really looking for in a job. I was looking to be respected and to grow as a person by challenging myself in new ways. In today's society many of us will be producers, but finding a job where we can respect ourselves while living comfortably is what is really important. There is a fine line between passion and fantasy. Also passion can be manipulated as you suggested by finding value in what you are doing by changing your way of thinking. As we get older I believe it is less about what we are doing and more about whether what we are doing is helping the ones we love(financial security).

On a semi-related topic studying for the CPA exam can be a great exercise in finding your inner-buddha. Through your long ours of studying you learn how to cope with suffering. You develop concentration and mindfulness by focusing on the material with your undivided attention. You also give up activities that are tension relieving for those that are goal achieving.

I spoke to an ancient wise man who sent me on a mushroom induced journey through an ancient forest to find the key to passing the CPA exam. A talking spider monkey told me to throw the last of my drinking water in the dirt to find what I was looking for. So I followed his instructions and the following message appeared in the soil:

"Do 5000 multiple choice questions for each section"

[vanadium3]

To both study monks: best wishes! I think we can be friends, but I'd probably be the first one to go insane 🙂

CPA

[vanadium3]

To both study monks: best wishes! I think we can be friends, but I'd probably be the first one to go insane 🙂

CPA

[Anonymous]

Amen and Namaste to you both!

Study Monk vanadium3!

Since studying, I've had trouble with discipline, but I've realized some things.

First, I learned to stop being a meat head and working out. I transformed in the gym from a giant muscle bound freak to a lean cardio fighting machine. I had to stop lifting weights because I was getting carpal tunnel symptoms and thoracic outlet symptoms. I've since cured them with the help of a chiropractor and stretching and cardio, but the process took years because my ego was so latched on to the crutch of muscles.

Which in turn helped me explore my inner nerd and made me realize that I never wanted to even be that muscular I just did it because I felt that I wouldn't get attention from the opposite sex.

The reality is also, I've become a better fighter – I like to train in boxing and martial arts – realizing that the true strength in martial arts comes from mind, repitition, ligaments, stretching…

In other words what Study Monk said is true…the CPA process can be one of ego purification and purging or the inner Buddha, which does not necessarily abstain but renounces.

To boot, I've lost 30lbs and now I eat so efficiently – only fruits, veggies, lean meats and grains….no more high protein diets, which tend to destroy the colon over time, and which many young men in the U.S. will fall prey too for the sake of a bench press.

Anyways…that is only one area of development. All areas of whole being transformed…that is how I passed the first part.

Sometimes one does go insane though, I still mumble to myself at the grocery store, and argue with my projections, but it is a good sort of tension and I know I'm pushing my brain to the max.

In the meantime I enjoy the plathora of syncronicities manifesting during this transitional period, which Carl Jung always alluded too would happen in times of upheaval and transformation..

The exam has humbled me, and taught me how to temper the extremes within, so as not to face them without.

Not all people taking the exam experience this. My friend passed it really fast, as he started studying freshmen year in college, and I was more nonchalant about it even though my grades were higher, but in the end he gained 40 lbs doing it.

So the holistic approach may not be as fast in terms of short term results but in the long run it may prevent serious disease.

Life is not a marathon. IT is a long training session, where you train for three miles runs every day. It is not a single race but a series of races and training sessions where one must be wise and take breaks in the middle and learn to be in a yin state.

I think Ninja notes are like this…like the lotus.

[Anonymous]

Amen and Namaste to you both!

Study Monk vanadium3!

Since studying, I've had trouble with discipline, but I've realized some things.

First, I learned to stop being a meat head and working out. I transformed in the gym from a giant muscle bound freak to a lean cardio fighting machine. I had to stop lifting weights because I was getting carpal tunnel symptoms and thoracic outlet symptoms. I've since cured them with the help of a chiropractor and stretching and cardio, but the process took years because my ego was so latched on to the crutch of muscles.

Which in turn helped me explore my inner nerd and made me realize that I never wanted to even be that muscular I just did it because I felt that I wouldn't get attention from the opposite sex.

The reality is also, I've become a better fighter – I like to train in boxing and martial arts – realizing that the true strength in martial arts comes from mind, repitition, ligaments, stretching…

In other words what Study Monk said is true…the CPA process can be one of ego purification and purging or the inner Buddha, which does not necessarily abstain but renounces.

To boot, I've lost 30lbs and now I eat so efficiently – only fruits, veggies, lean meats and grains….no more high protein diets, which tend to destroy the colon over time, and which many young men in the U.S. will fall prey too for the sake of a bench press.

Anyways…that is only one area of development. All areas of whole being transformed…that is how I passed the first part.

Sometimes one does go insane though, I still mumble to myself at the grocery store, and argue with my projections, but it is a good sort of tension and I know I'm pushing my brain to the max.

In the meantime I enjoy the plathora of syncronicities manifesting during this transitional period, which Carl Jung always alluded too would happen in times of upheaval and transformation..

The exam has humbled me, and taught me how to temper the extremes within, so as not to face them without.

Not all people taking the exam experience this. My friend passed it really fast, as he started studying freshmen year in college, and I was more nonchalant about it even though my grades were higher, but in the end he gained 40 lbs doing it.

So the holistic approach may not be as fast in terms of short term results but in the long run it may prevent serious disease.

Life is not a marathon. IT is a long training session, where you train for three miles runs every day. It is not a single race but a series of races and training sessions where one must be wise and take breaks in the middle and learn to be in a yin state.

I think Ninja notes are like this…like the lotus.

[vanadium3]

Form itself is emptiness and emptiness itself is form. Namaste.

CPA

[vanadium3]

Form itself is emptiness and emptiness itself is form. Namaste.

CPA

[Anonymous]

The snake that eats its tail,

The hands that draw each other into existence,

The reflection that reflects upon the observer is also the observer

Namaste!

[Author]

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