Competition is the Lie – Your Truth is within.
One of the harder-to-pin-down subjects is truth.
Because it’s entirely personal. You can study all the various books and tapes and CD’s and videos you want – but all you’ll get are other peoples’ versions of what they found to be true.
What is true is, and always has been, entirely within yourself.
And as a matter of fact, it comes from within you and spreads out into the world.
I’ve been working recently with the Golden Rule and found too many actions and consequences which trace back to a person’s using it. It just can’t be anything other than a general rule used by everyone – a Law, if you will.
But actually, that’s just my take on it. So your mileage may vary.
My use of the Golden Rule is to improve my own well-being, my own health, my own abundance in life. Treating others as I would like to be treated obviously improves my personal relationships with others.
Of course, you really have to apply it to yourself, IMHO, in order to get the best results. You can’t be self-critical, or anxious, or “stressed out” in order to live a peaceful life.
In fact, any peace you find is always personally generated – just like your own joy and happiness (as Lester Levenson pointed out with his Sedona Method).
And here is where competition comes in. Now, just for good exercise and experiencing the joys of good teamwork, sports are an incredibly useful action. And as entertainment, there can probably be nothing better than being in the stands with others watching talented athletes perform at their best.
But most competition is a lie.
First, we are not all created equal in abilities or attitude or other capabilities. So to put us on “a level playing field” is just hobbling the best so the worst can keep up.
Seccond, when applied to commerce, it’s just a way to keep you riveted on someone else’s actions so that you become just like them. The industry leaders are that way because they are following a vision and listening to their clients in order to improve their products and services.
Third, what you are here for is to improve your own abilities, your own situation. (And of course you do this by helping others – using one version of the Golden Rule: you have to give before you can get.) So your own “evolution” lies solely within the decisions you make for yourself.
Trying to “beat someone at their own game” forces you to think and act within narrow constraints and actually try to become someone else – you start playing by their rules instead of on your own terms.
So the truth you are trying to find is – and always has been – within yourself.
And you are only going to find more truth by taking some quiet time for yourself and listening to what you find there.
Try it and see. It’s helped me a lot, as well as some of the greatest in history.
But you are only going to know if you can touch that truth within.
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