Much of our life is spent judging.  This is judgement of ourselves and others.  This lowers our energy vibration and we fall out of a sense of refinement. We say that we feel less than fine, which is a statement of our energetic flow.

All spiritual traditions invite you to practice in one form or another the art of witnessing.  This is witnessing your thoughts and actions.  This is what the writer Colin Turner, writing in “Shooting the Monkey,” says  is the key to life’s fulfilment.  Here is what this wonderful writer on secrets of the new spirit of business has to say about this practice:

“Everybody is capable of reaping the infinite benefits available, yet most don’t even get close to it.  We are too busy judging others.  Although each of us carries the key to the door of fulfilment, very few ever turn the lock.  All that is required, however, is to take time to meditate.”

This instruction comes from a leading entrepreneur and teacher whose ideas have been influenced by such wisdom teachers as Chang Tzu, Rumi, Wayne Dyer, Vernon Howard and God, to name just a few.  He is representative of the new business spirit that the world of work needs in order that there be justice in the world in the use of economic resources for all people.

In “Shooting the Monkey” Colin Turner goes on to say that the powerful practice of silent witnessing of our thoughts and actions is a spiritual practice.

” Sitting cross-legged and half-naked under a tree humming to yourself is not meditation. Millions of people miss out on meditation because of false connotations.  They think it is gloomy and serious, or religious and monastic, or downright weird and bizarre. Yet meditation affords the opportunity to embark on the greatest adventure the human mind can take. In truth, total awareness is a form of meditation”

That quote is from someone who teaches in a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programme.  Can you see this instruction, the key to the door of fulfilment being included in the mission statement of many leading companies or corporations?

Can you see such an invitation being extended on the trading floor of the world’s stock exchanges?

Yet, this is being done.  Poets and storytellers are being invited into the boardroom of multi-national corporations. One such poet and storyteller is David Whyte.  This is a storyteller who tells fairy stories. He tells his listeners about the Tuatha de Danaan – the people of beauty and grace that have been overlaid with judgement.

This is one of many secrets of the New Business Spirit that allows us to become invitations to presence.  This means that we work more effectively when we are detached from outcomes and emotional involvement.  This does not mean we cease to fee but that we feel fine.  We trust the process of creation as we witness it in flow rather than in judgement..

The monkey you are invited to shoot in “Shooting the Monkey” is what wisdom traditions who practice silent witnessing call monkey mind.  We all have such a mind.  If you doubt this then sit for five minutes. Practice breathing in and breathing out. Now watch. You will probably be planning something in the future. Thinking about is not being present to and in the moment. Absence from the present moment is how most people go about experiencing their life.  The secrets of the New Business Spirit invite you into the present and the gift that you are and are intended to be.

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