Nothing Exists Without You
When I was a kid there was a kind of riddle or ‘no-answer’ question that made the rounds. I’m sure you’ve heard it:
“If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound when it hits the ground?”
We didn’t know it at the time but this question is the essence of quantum physics. It also addresses the nature of experiences being real or not.
I have quoted before from the brilliant work by George Lavenia What You Think is What You Get. Here’s another one:
“NOTHING EXISTS WITHOUT YOU, THE OBSERVER. NO PEOPLE OR PLANET, NOT EVEN THE UNIVERSE EXISTS WITHOUT YOU.
IN SHORT, WITHOUT YOUR PARTICIPATION AS THE OBSERVER, NOTHING EXISTS AS THE OBSERVED; THEREFORE, THE OBSERVER AND THE OBSERVED MUST BE ONE AND THE SAME.”
So, no one in the forest when the tree fell? Well then, no sound because there was no observer/listener.
I am frequently asked what all this has to do with my business, my Network Marketing business. I’ll give you a hint by paraphrasing Mr. Lavenia:
ALONE THERE IS NOTHING – NO OBSERVATION, NO EXPERIENCE, NO BUSINESS.
SOMETHING EXISTS ONLY WITH THE TANDEM CALLED
OBSERVER – OBSERVED
or
EXPERIENCER – EXPERIENCED
or
BUSINESS OWNER – CLIENT/PROSPECT.
BUSINESS OWNER AND CLIENT ARE ONE.
Although we are rarely in it, our Natural State of Being is one with our experience/observation. That is, there is no separation. Translated to business, one with our client. In that moment, there being no space in our mind to separate the two, something exists: A Relationship based in Reality.
But we somehow have figured out HOW TO GET IN OUR OWN WAY and disrupt the fundamental Natural State of affairs.
I trust I haven’t oversimplified matters.
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Sorry, But I Don’t Believe In Work
I included the apology because I’m sure I’ve offended some.
It seems that work to those offended not only defines their lives but exists as a badge of honor, their metric to measure just how serious they are. You know, the “I mean business” mindset.
I watch sports, baseball primarily, football in the fall & winter and more recently some futball because of the World Cup. When I frequently hear athletes and coaches, especially broadcasters, declare they “work hard” or “have work to do” I laugh.
It may seem like semantics but I was under the impression they PLAY baseball, football, basketball, futball, hockey, etc.
PLAY.
Where is the disconnection between the two words, PLAY and WORK?
A recent blog of mine featuring a quote from the brilliant book by George Lavenia, What You Think is What You Get, highlighted the distinction. http://liveyourdream-ownyourlife.com/is-it-work-or-play
Watch children play. Or your pets. Watch athletes play their sports.
Then consider you at your work.
I did and came away with the conclusion I was doing it all wrong. I just didn’t experience myself as I did the children, dogs and athletes experiencing themselves. They didn’t seem disconnected, struggling or at odds with themselves. They and their experiences were one and the same.
I don’t call it my Business (Busy-ness) anymore. I now call it my Playfulness.
A trick? Maybe, if you consider it so, but I’m having more FUN at work.
OOPS! I mean PLAY.
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Free-Will Choices? Free of Our Past?
We deceive ourselves when we belive most of the choices we make are made from our free will. In truth, choices we make are really nothing more than decisions that are influenced by our mind-thoughts gathered through our past.
The choices we make never occur prior to our mind-thoughts – and for clarity I will call mind-thoughts programming in order to appeal to a more computer-literate world.
When making a choice we stop and think about it, consequently depending on our memories, which are nothing more than bits of our experiences selectively kept or jettisoned and then strung together to create what we call our personal history. But strung together according to what, I hope you might ask?
According to more programming, foisted on us by parents, grand-parents, siblings, classmates, teammates, our communities, our nationalities, our desire to belong. Or not belong.
Although it may appear we are coming from a place we call the present when making a choice, as long as memory and personal history influence us, as long as a collective-culture influences us, we are honestly only operating from the rather claustrophobic confines of our mind’s past programming.
No wonder then the expression, A war to win hearts and minds.
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Is It Work or Play?
Why not both?
I had always envied those people who were able to say they “never worked a day in their life.” That everything they did seemed like play to them and whatever they played at they were able to get paid for!
Talk about a Holy Grail! Or hitting a lottery!
Can’t tell you how many self-development books I read and CDs I listened to or how many seminars I attended trying to wring out the secret these people held.
I was stumped until I read this and real-ized how elegantly simple the solution is:
“The difference between work and play is nothing more than your preconceived idea about the activity. It may sound crazy but it’s true.
“The way you feel about doing something is directly related to the way you think. By choice, you are the one who determines the amount of enjoyment you get out of your pursuits. In fact, you can get satisfaction from everything you do by giving yourself totally to all of your endeavors. However, the only way you can experience that kind of freedom is when you no longer associate survival with what you’re doing. That way, you’re not attached to the outcome, which means you have nothing to lose.
“Now here’s the whole thing in a nutshell. If you have nothing to lose, there’s no fear, and if you have no fear, you’re free – free from any idea associated with what you do.
ONCE YOU GIVE UP YOUR CONCERN
ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE DOING,
YOU CAN BE FREE OF FEAR,
AND THAT’S THE ONLY
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
WORK AND PLAY.
“By letting go of your concern, you are free of your mind’s influence. Then and only then can you get as much enjoyment out of work as you do from play. Then you can come from enjoyment rather than trying to find it. It is that simple!
“As you can see, the way you experience something is totally up to you. To use this knowledge is your birthright - your right to create the experience of joy in your life.”
And joy in your work. Or is it play?
- Quoted with deep gratitude to George Lavenia, from his book What You Think is What You Get.
