One thing I really love about spirit mind awareness is how it lets me use my
analytical mind in a way That's very clear making it assessments, but without
judgment and for me This is such a strong and powerful way for me to continue my
personal growth Because for me spirituality and personal growth is all about self
-awareness and this really makes it possible So today I was in this meeting and
Yoriko mentioned that hey maybe we can use the Zoom live interpreter feature so that
English people can watch Hisami's Japanese calls. And she's so excited about it seems
like a great idea but right away I just kind of assume that it's not going to
work and I'm saying ah probably it's going to make Hisami's voice muted so her
mouth is moving but you can't hear it's going to look really funny, I don't like
this, let's not do it, right? So we're kind of thinking we'll go a different
direction. Then, just a little bit ago, I decided maybe I should check that
assumption I was making, right? I just noticed I don't really know that. I'm just
kind of assuming that. So I checked and sure enough, it turns out that Zoom can
handle that beautifully. You'll just hear Hisami a little bit in the background while
the English interpreter is talking over her. And even if Hisami and I are both
talking in different languages and the same mic, it'll still handle it all
beautifully.
Wow, that old tech arrogance that I've always had since I was young is still alive
in me, and it's still coming out even in daily events now. And because I'm able to
see it without judgment, I can just go, "Oh, wow, yeah,
it's true. I have a part deep within me that believes I'm the smartest person in
the room or the smartest tech person in the room and it does come from some
history where you know It's some point in time in my prime. I was the smartest
person in some rooms I was at the top of my class. I remembered Some interviews
I've been to where they you know just to see how I'd react. They gave me what
they thought was an impossible Problem to solve which after just a few minutes of
asking and clarifying questions. I stood up and wrote the whole solution out on the
board for them, which got me that job and surprised them. And, you know,
so it's true. Like, you know, I've been a pretty smart guy, but I was always
pretty arrogant about it, too, and could be quite a jerk in that way. But now it's
20 years later, since I got out of the software world, clearly, I'm not the
smartest tech person in the room anymore. You know, 20 years is forever in the
software world and things are moving way faster and it's just an unreasonable
position for me to assume. And even if it was true, it's not a comfortable one
that I want to be assuming anymore. I don't need to come from that place of
thinking I'm smarter than everybody else or assuming people do dumb things,
things like this. And so it was really beautiful for me today to be able to see
that behavior is still alive in me from a place of non -judgment. And then to say,
oh wow, that's right. I can see where it came from. I can see how it's affecting
me now. And I can see it's time to let go of it. And I can also see that even
though I haven't noticed, you know, time has passed and I'm no longer the smartest
tech person in the room, even though I haven't noticed, it's very likely that many
people around me have noticed. Like they've heard me say things like this and
thought, oh yeah, I just...
beauty of having the material mind work in the space of spirit mind, right?
So I'm able to still assess things and see things, but from a space of non
-judgment and I'm able to see that bigger picture all at once from a spirit mind. I
love it.
