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What is true about the nature of your actions in life, and especially the actions that relate to livelihood?
Providing means, accumulating what you consider to be a base of conditions for life—with some safety and opportunity for growth—all of that. What is the nature of the action?
It can be one of two things: freedom or fear. Anything will fall on one of these sides.
Most often, the nature of these actions is fear. You take an action because you are afraid to lose something that you have, or you are afraid to miss what you consider an opportunity to get more.
Whereas the nature of freedom is not the nature of your actions, most likely, because freedom acts on its own behalf. When you send an airplane into the sky—with an engine, with a map, with a path—it seems to be flying in infinite space, but the very clear fact is: it only flies where it is allowed to. Allowed by physics, allowed by regulation, allowed by the will of the pilot and the charter of the passengers, whatever that is. It doesn’t, for example, just drop out of the sky in a free dive unless someone is testing the limits.
So the movement of freedom is not that. The movement of freedom, in the context of livelihood, must be holistic. The movement of fear is a fraction of the potential. The movement of freedom is the manifestation of infinite potential.
It’s just that you don’t control it. And that’s the one thing you never question: whether that control—which you know as planning, as predetermined scopes in which you play your game—really serves what you’re after, or whether it is limiting what you wish or try to manifest. You never question it.
In my life, I saw that the more control there is, the less the holistic potential comes to be. And if you hear that and assume that what’s pointed to here is just random movement, careless behavior, actions that are out of any context, then you have no idea what you’re talking about, or what you think you heard. It’s exactly the opposite.
It’s when the totality of your life is lived that it naturally moves in a way that sustains itself. The movement is self-sustained. And if you want one example as a hint: look at passion. Look at when you wake up to a day and you are ignited and motivated—not for a reason. You’re just happy to be alive, and every step that you take through the day is a blessing.
When was the last time you lived a day like that? Because someone who lives a day like that can never do wrong, can never go off path. Their very existence, their very living, is the path of self-manifestation of the holistic potential. They are not the limited potential they chose and tried to control because of an idea.
To me, this is the most profound change, the most profound realization, and the most profound reality: the stupidity of choice when it comes to livelihood, and the beauty of the now—the actuality, the reality of things—when they navigate themselves; when the response is to what’s there, what is, what is now, the totality of it, and not a virtual chase after an idea.
I really wish that you will question. I really wish that you will see. Because the moment you do, you will allow the activities of your life—especially the activities that have to do with livelihood—to realize their potential in freedom, by themselves.
Alternatively, you are doomed to continue living—whether you know it or not—in the tiny field that your fear allows you to feel temporarily secure in. I really wish you question that, not accept it: question it.
