One

I don’t get when hipsters say they “hated working for others” but then can’t wait to employ others to work for them.

Two

I don’t get when hipsters set out to “change the world” but then come up with coffee, beer or socks.

Three

Why do you want to do it alone?

Source of this non-sense: A documentary about anti-capitalism hipsters who started their own business. Asked about their mission they said they wanted to get rich…

Let’s give it some uplift.

First, I don’t think these entrepreneurs will get far unless they regard their ex-employers as anti-rolemodels and want to do it better instead.

Second, nothing wrong with a good espresso, but creativity and intelligence should be used to solve relevant problems.

Third, big problems are best solved in small groups. Why don’t we do it together?

Let everything go. It is ok how it is. Don’t intervene. Just, let it happen…

Intuitively, I couldn’t accept that. These ideas were entirely against my attitude and my first reaction was negative. I resisted.

I am sure that everyone who sees himself as a maker, a builder, a doer is against ideas that tell one to not make, to not build, to not do at all.

Because after all, we can’t just let everything go especially when it is not ok how it is. We want to intervene when we believe something is wrong.

When we see a problem, we can’t let it happen. We want to solve it. But it is exactly here, at this point, where meditation has its greatest leverage.

Let us take a deep breath to understand why. At first, we are confronted with a paradox here. How can an attitude of non-solving help a solver?

The answer is simple: Because the problem needs to be understood first, before one can attempt to solve it. But what is the problem?

More often than not, the problem is not what we think the problem is. The real one is much deeper, covered by other problem-layers, hidden.

In order to reach the core, to get closer to its true nature, we have a practical tool available that seems everything but practical at all: Meditation.

Let us implement it where we stopped: At the question what the problem is. Because it is exactly here, at this point, where meditation helps.

By letting it happen… By being ok how it is.. By looking the problem in the eye, with deep acceptance that it is welcome and perfectly fine.

We have to non-resist.

The insights will be uplifting.

We will understand.

When the problem is out, uncovered, understood, we can solve it. Then, we can be the makers, the builders, the doers that we want to be.

Wish you a smooth Sunday blues,

Michael

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