Re: Money.

[Guest guest]

> >

> > As I passed through weeks of hectic

> > activities involved in lot of things - I

> > noticed I had no sense of " suffering " .

> >

>

> Involved in hectic activities, I was

> often full of thoughts!

>

> Yet, none of these thoughts seemed as

> a 'problem', none of these thoughts

> created stress or suffering.

>

> These thoughts were aligned with what

> I was doing.

>

Other thing that I noticed was that

felt " good " about the " purpose " of

these vigorous " none stressful "

activities. I felt that it was indeed

the " right " thing to do. It was what I

" should " do. I felt an Inner " yes " to

what I was doing...

Doing things with this alignment with

the 'inner purpose', 'inner yes',

'inner truth'... I felt empowered,

" charged " and even seemingly " great

efforts " felt like... " no effort " ; even

hectic turn of events... felt like Peace!

The experience was very different than

that of my involvement with things that

I found not aligned to my " inner truth "

[or I call also call them my " inner

belief " ].

I found that things that I called my

" professional " " work " often lacked this

" empowering " " purpose " !

My boss and colleagues here and

elsewhere tried to teach me that only

reason I am with the company is because

I want to earn money, only reason

company keeps me because they think I

can help them make more money and only

reason that company is in business is

for 'profits'!

I realized that this 'vision', this

'purpose' didn't really " empower " me!

It reduced my " work " to simply a means

of getting " money " and the " idea of

money " didn't seem very empowering to

me. It seemed more like'slavery' and

'bondage' and less like a peaceful,

liberating, " good " , " right " , " just " ,

" fair " ... " compassionate " , " kind " idea

to which I can find a total Inner yes to!

In fact, I found most ideas around

" money " quite less than empowering, in

fact, in many cases I found them

" draining me " out! I found them

disempowering... as the guys tried to

teach me how can I " take advantage of "

the tax loopholes [and laws] to have

more money, how can I time the market

and make more money from stocks, how

can I buy a home and then sell it for

big profits simply by getting it

painted and fenced by hiring a

" staging " agency to decorate it with

paintings, furniture that will be

removed once the sale is over.

In fact, most of them seemed like

" legal " " cheating " to me; an idea for

which I could not find an inner Total

" yes " !

IT amazed me that guys after guys on

TV, radio, newspapers and rest of the

media was trying to " teach " who to

quickly become millionaire, make huge

profits by doing X, Y or Z and how very

few talked about teaching how to create

a more " value " , more resources for the

society - an idea that I might have

found far more " empowering " . I found

that I can accept money as the side-

effect of creating value but, I did not

feel " empowered " by the idea of working

or doing something just for the sake of

money!

I found that idea downright

" disempowering " and I felt if I was to

earn money that way quite likely it was

at the expense of someone else. It was

an idea based on " exclusion " and based

one the firm principle of 'me versus

the other'. I saw that in these scheme,

in order for me to win someone has to

lose. This was an idea I could not find

a total " inner yes " to...

[Guest guest]

[...]

> I found that things that I called my

> " professional " " work " often lacked this

> " empowering " " purpose " !

>

> My boss and colleagues here and

> elsewhere tried to teach me that only

> reason I am with the company is because

> I want to earn money, only reason

> company keeps me because they think I

> can help them make more money and only

> reason that company is in business is

> for 'profits'!

>

> I realized that this 'vision', this

> 'purpose' didn't really " empower " me!

> It reduced my " work " to simply a means

> of getting " money " and the " idea of

> money " didn't seem very empowering to

> me. It seemed more like'slavery' and

> 'bondage' and less like a peaceful,

> liberating, " good " , " right " , " just " ,

> " fair " ... " compassionate " , " kind " idea

> to which I can find a total Inner yes to!

>

I saw that I found my work empowering

when I saw it directly benefiting...

good, noble, needy, worthy.

I saw that I found the " work " draining

when I saw it only/mostly benefiting

only " evil " and " greedy " and not

creating any real value for the society.

I realized that to feel really

empowered I needed to see my work as

really enriching lives of [noble]

people, help them grow, give them more

pleasure than pain and create new

products, new survives, new

conveniences, new resources for the

society. To feel my work as

" empowering " ; I need to see it as an

effort towards greater good.

I felt disheartened, disillusioned and

disempowered when I was told by the

executives and board that that only

purpose of the company and its

efforts was to make money even it involved

cheating, fooling or tricking

customers!

I often wondered why

executives, board, management will

chose to talk this way in meeting after

the meetings...

Work in that context, got reduced to

something that I " had to " do rather

than something that I would love to do,

something that I feel " good " about,

something that I find match my

'integrity', something that I could I

find an inner yes for.

And, working this way often created

a feeling [at sub- conscious level] of

being kind of 'slave', 'victim',

'trapped' in the system rather than a

willing co-creator of growth, value, goods, resources,

services...

I felt working this way could become

and remain " stressful " ...