The End

Less is more.

I am about to make a contrarian point to a popular belief. I am writing this article to communicate a very simple message – the less you do, the more you have.

This is obviously opposite to how most people will live their lives, most of us have been taught to work harder or smarter. It makes no difference how smart you are or how hard you work.

I am here today to tell you without any doubt and hesitation that the more you work, the less you will have. I have done my research on this statement. You can do yours and reach the same conclusion or for a while just trust mine.

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.

Work is x, y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut

Albert Einstein

We live by rules. Some our own. Some inherited in our upbringing. The mind essentially functions through rules. Without rules, its fair to say that the human brain will be incapable of functioning. It needs rules.

Everything that we do or will do in life is guided by one of these rules in our head. Right or wrong it’s a reality in our heads. Our actions therefore have to be consistent enough to validate the rule.

For example a simple rule the world at large follows – Go to school, get education – go to college, get a degree – get a masters – get a job – get a career – get settled – have a good life.

To some extent everyone follows the above rule. It is a way of life. Thus our actions resonate with it.

The rules can become so strong and such a guiding force in life that if something is occurring and against the rules – we will actually make it fall in line with the rules. Plenty of examples here – a child refusing to study, a co-worker refusing to attend office for eight hours, working long hours, arts and sciences in management and leadership and so on and on and on.

Where do these rules originate from? Basically from someone having achieved some degree of success in applying them and hence over a period of time some other being terming it as science.

I’ll tell you what – my realization out of researching and reading about the so called rules is – THERE ARE NO RULES  - ONLY SUGGESTIONS.

Am making a big statement – nothing is a rule – absolutely nothing – not even science – it’s all assumed reality – it’s observed reality and our actions automatically fall in line to make us believe that it must be true.

I was sharing and discussing this last week with a very distinguished professor of physics. He shared with me some very interesting stories that am passing on to you. In a nutshell he said – science is made up stuff.

He said, for example, if you take a piece of matter and accelerate it to the speed of light; according to the equation it becomes infinitely heavy the faster it gets. E=mc²  suggests it should. Do we know if it really happens? So if in experiment the results of the equation don’t balance out on both sides, or if the real life results don’t make sense, he says we just take something and cancel it out with the other side so it comes out ok.

I am not making this up. In fact I learned that a mathematician came up with another science to validate the incongruities in science – the process of renormalization.

E=mc²  was not even the equation Einstien submitted in the first place. He was dyslexic, he had some terms backwards. This is all true – its accepted and published in  Tony Rothman’s Everything Relative.

Take another scientific generality  - Nothing travels faster than light. It becomes  reality therefore nothing will ever be discovered to be faster. Before you think I am insane – think about it; why cannot you go past the speed of light? Because light is the tool you are measuring with!! This is the reason. If light is the tool, we use to perform all our measurements of velocity, then obviously everything is in relation to that factor. That is why Einstein said nothing travels faster than the speed of light. He never meant to suggest that you cannot go faster than the speed of light (that is your rule). He just said you cannot measure it. Never is it implied, for example, that thought does not travel faster than light but you cannot measure it.

You see even Science is real only till its proven wrong.

When we keep living in the rules, then we can never question them. When we don’t question them then we can never change them. If we cannot change them, then we have to validate them. To validate them we act in a manner consistent with them. However we have desires, dreams etc beyond the realms of the rules so how do we go about getting them. We try to do more, put extra effort, work harder, smarter …..  whatever else that we do…. BUT think about it, we still do all of it within the rules!! So how will we see a result that the rules do not permit? – Answer : We won’t.

If living by these rules was the answer or if the rules were correct in the first place, then theoretically everyone following them should experience the same level of success and happiness. Reality is certainly very different.

If even the scientific rules were to be correct – then any two people facing a certain illness, be it anything, having the exact same symptoms – should react in the same manner to a same medicine. Will they? Two patients with the same cancer – will they both be cured by the same medicine? Some do get cured and some don’t…

There are not really rules. It’s an assumed state of mind. We chose to observe things that fall within the rule set. We encounter every single day thousands of ‘possibilities’ that are not within the rule set – is it possible that these opportunities simply pass us by because its not in the scope of our rules and so we don’t see them? After all how can we expect to see anything faster than light when light is the fastest?

You see what we do not expect to see, does not occur!

There is a law of quantum probability – the act of observing something causes it to cohere into what we expect to see. That is when a specific outcome is not expected then the causes to make the unexpected happen will not be seen automatically.

What you expect – you will experience. The more you do, the less you will get because within the rules you can only get what the rules provide for. So doing more means getting less of what you really want. Believe you me I have rarely seen a person write a goal that falls in the realm of rules. So how on Earth will ‘doing more’ get the result.

When you begin to loosen your rule set concerning what is possible, you will automatically begin to see a lot of other things. Change will in reality occur when you STOP trying to do something, not when you are trying to make something happen. Change will occur with THE END not with the beginning. Changing how you will perceive, changing the rules, changes your observations, which can change your outcomes, right now!

It is our attempts to do something, our need to constantly observe something (to validate our theories of life) and our desire to be powerful within these rules, that keep us from experiencing those things.

I’ll give you an example -  five years ago I was trying to write a book. I started plenty of times but wouldn’t be able to go beyond a few pages. Every time I wrote a few pages, I couldn’t figure out what next, what will be the flow, how will I take it to at least a 150 pages. The more I tried to do it, the more I failed. Then one day (of course not conscious about all this that I am writing today) I stopped trying. The desire remained, the book in reality far away. I stopped trying to write the book and got back to writing my monthly articles. Suddenly at the end of the year I realized that 20 articles packed together = the book. It happened. Simple rule that changed was that book has to 150 connected pages. Whoever said that was a rule… it isn’t. The book is out and most of you have it.

The more you do within the rule set, the less you get. ‘The end’ will be the change, the result.

It’s very simple. It’s common sense. All you need to do is three things. 

ONE – Drop it – means a state of altered possibility where other rules, or NO rules apply at all. Abandon them. 

TWO – Intent – Intent is very misunderstood. We normally think intent means deciding what we want and then trying hard to get it. Right? This means a lot of work. Why should you work so much? Because you probably don’t think you will get it otherwise. Because you already don’t have it. It is your desire to have the thing combined with your belief that you will not get it that amplifies the state of not having it. Intent is simply a virtual reality. Its just intent. Intent means intent, pick up any dictionary – none will say intent means doing something. Simply intent.

THREE- Let Go – Simply means let go. Embrace the end of rules and let go. THE MORE YOU LET GO, THE MORE THE THINGS WILL OCCUR. Don’t try to do something, the more you will do the more it will elude you. Just let go and It will happen. “Intelligence is simply your faith in your heart and mind”    So keep the faith and let go of ‘doing’ – the new doing will happen without you realizing it and oftentimes not just by you, providence too.

If you are skeptical about the above three things. TRY IT. Try it with any small thing. Drop the rules, place the intent and let go… Give providence, give chance a chance…..

Bruce Lee taught three key principles to his students:

1- absorb what is useful., 2- Discard the classical mess which basically means the clutter, the reality, the rules and your way for the way things are and finally, 3- No way as the way means apply the rules that show up, not the one’s of the past that is entertain all possibilities.

The End is the change. Doing something in the current reality isn’t. The reality remains, the rules prevail. You see we can transform reality by breathing in one reality set, pausing a  moment, letting go of it, and breathing out another reality set. If you have got the point in this article, then it is not as difficult as it sounds; and if it does not sound difficult anyways, that is because it is not.

To your endings.

Chetan Walia.