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graham christian · 03-01-2012, 05:04 PM

Nice 'words' to do with competition and how natural it is but is it true?

Look around yourself even at things, look around yourself at the people you met today or ones you know, look around yourself at what happens at work.

If you actually look you will find competing, operating from the competitive mind, is completely crazy. It always leads to trouble and always makes things harder and generally makes things worse, in fact it always does.

This is different to a specialized arena. Thus we have sports and games and that's where it's a jointly agreed upon activity given rules of play.

I see people at work competing with things even and suffering the consequences. A builder who is trying to do something, like say remove a screw or hang a door or whatever. If it's a bit troublesome and he decides to look at it as the door is opposing him he then starts swearing at it and blaming it and trying to force it and ouch!!! Yeah, something 'bad' happens. He caused it, yet he blames the door. Crazy

If you work in an office or environment with people working closely together and there's that one who is always trying to show they are better, to impress the boss, to do all kind of annoying things and then act innocent, all kinds of methods. Oh the competitive mind. This person thus has to prove and therefor proving to the boss how 'bad' the others are become all part of the game. Lies become useful to this end. On and on. This fellow or woman is heading for a good beating or come uppance, after annoying and possibly destroying a few lives on the way of course. Oh the competitve mind.

Do you compete with the pavement you walk on, see it as an enemy? Do you walk around seeing others as enemies? In fact rather than do you the better question would be where do you? for in that part of life you are to that degree neurotic or paranoid to that extent, fearful of, thus suffering due to a viewpoint of your own. Then you can walk around and gather instances of things happening that justify you holding on to that viewpoint. Oh the competitive mind.

It's not human nature it's human insanity based on human lack of awareness.

When a person realizes just how stupid or mad the competitive mind is and just how stupid they have been following it then they can start growing spiritually and in awareness and even become a comfortable person to be around.

Regards.G.

03-01-2012, 05:04 PM	#79
graham christian Dojo: golden center aikido-highgate Location: london Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,697 Offline	Re: How to be non-competitive in a competitive world Nice 'words' to do with competition and how natural it is but is it true? Look around yourself even at things, look around yourself at the people you met today or ones you know, look around yourself at what happens at work. If you actually look you will find competing, operating from the competitive mind, is completely crazy. It always leads to trouble and always makes things harder and generally makes things worse, in fact it always does. This is different to a specialized arena. Thus we have sports and games and that's where it's a jointly agreed upon activity given rules of play. I see people at work competing with things even and suffering the consequences. A builder who is trying to do something, like say remove a screw or hang a door or whatever. If it's a bit troublesome and he decides to look at it as the door is opposing him he then starts swearing at it and blaming it and trying to force it and ouch!!! Yeah, something 'bad' happens. He caused it, yet he blames the door. Crazy If you work in an office or environment with people working closely together and there's that one who is always trying to show they are better, to impress the boss, to do all kind of annoying things and then act innocent, all kinds of methods. Oh the competitive mind. This person thus has to prove and therefor proving to the boss how 'bad' the others are become all part of the game. Lies become useful to this end. On and on. This fellow or woman is heading for a good beating or come uppance, after annoying and possibly destroying a few lives on the way of course. Oh the competitve mind. Do you compete with the pavement you walk on, see it as an enemy? Do you walk around seeing others as enemies? In fact rather than do you the better question would be where do you? for in that part of life you are to that degree neurotic or paranoid to that extent, fearful of, thus suffering due to a viewpoint of your own. Then you can walk around and gather instances of things happening that justify you holding on to that viewpoint. Oh the competitive mind. It's not human nature it's human insanity based on human lack of awareness. When a person realizes just how stupid or mad the competitive mind is and just how stupid they have been following it then they can start growing spiritually and in awareness and even become a comfortable person to be around. Regards.G.