PURE ACTION AS WORK

I propose to anyone who works in the field of behavioral adjustment, or who might want to, to consider a very simple fact. It will never work to your satisfaction to take any but pure action. So long as my behavior is not pure but tainted by selfish interest I will make matters worse even with the best of my intentions. What I am telling you is obvious when you take a close look. When I am working to earn money my employer or client will have power over me that must corrupt pure action. If I believe I require the job with its paycheck I enslave myself to the payor. One must be clear that one's work is such that you would do it even if no money were offered.  A prostitute is by definition anyone who does work he or she would not do were money not promised. Whoever is not working solely for the love of the work done is a whore. Such people cannot know freedom.

So, resign and find work you can do with pure action uncorrupted by self interest. You might be too concerned with your perceived need for money to follow this advice. In that case you will continue to accept money for your work and become a problem to be addressed by another paid social worker...probably several. That will become what you will call your life. Interestingly, when I took a job of work I knew I would do for no pay the one who hired me found it impossible to give me orders to the point he ultimately told me "make up your own job and keep me informed so I can intelligently discuss your work". That is freedom!

I do not know what capitalism means. I do not know what politics means. They appear to me as trivial nonsense. Products of imagination. Corrupt from the outset. Have nothing to do with pure action. They are intelligent theories made up by educated professionals concerning a better way to work a pack of slaves in a money driven world. Are formed in an entirely different dimension from a world of pure action. They are beliefs of a conditioned mind that considers it necessary and appropriate to tamper with pure action on the theory there are no humans who are pure and never can there be.  Because it is the product of a confused mind tampering is bound to cause more confusion that further tampering will exacerbate to the point quite familiar at this time to all humans of Planet Earth. 

This is written by someone who practiced law  (a part of the field of behavioral adjustment) in the United States for about twenty years for the purpose of earning money. I would have refused that line of unhappy work immediately had no money been offered me. Eventually the state of confusion I felt became unacceptable to the point I quit. Knowing not what pure action is I had no clue what else I might do for work. Only I knew I could not go on the way I had been living. 

I read a book titled “What Color Is Your Parachute” and found a career counselor who asked me for money to advise me. However, at the same time I was spending several hours a day in the company of folks who offered to help me find happiness for free and because they wanted to (and among those kind folks was my career counselor). They fed my heart and stayed out of my way.  From them I found the courage needed to decide I would follow my own deepest yearning which led me to try working purely for the joy of doing it with no concern for my economic welfare. I refused all pressure to define my work. I would work for the sake of it. And I work harder than ever I did as a lawyer and my work brings good to those I serve. Great Nothing provides all my needs without my tampering and that is the pay for pure action.  And I have no interest in retirement from such joyful pure action!  I have enjoyed my life as never before. I thrive! I travel. I meet many true friends continually. Now, 34 years later, I am confident to tell anyone such a way exists for us all and it works! This is no attempt at personal worship. I receive beautiful signs from the Universe and follow them. That is how I live. It is as if something that expected me to show up at my birth lovingly prepared a party for me and only me. A true friend even dedcided to build for me a car when he saw I was walking or riding a bike everywhere. For this, I call the giver Great Nothing. It teaches me love. 

I have written a play and hope to see it on a stage soon. My play tells that anyone of us who rediscovers life beyond selfish motives makes a contribution to the divine consciousness of a parallel world that is real though it be be totally unknown to the poor, unhappy, selfish slaves. Monetary slaves are abundantly unhappy and must abuse others accordingly. In the parallel world life is all about love and the actors here make it funny.

Shakespeare wrote:

 

“For never anything can be amiss when

simpleness and duty tender it”.  

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream)