On Terminating Employees And Partnerships With Compassion And Without Guilt

Let us be direct.

And concise.

Shall we?

Terminating an employee or ending a partnership or business relationship brings about stress, anxiety, fear, guilt, self-doubt, and inner turmoil.

It would not be incorrect to say that this happens to the one who terminates, perhaps moreso than to the one who is terminated.

Why?

Because the mind uses societal dictums to turn against him.

The mind lives in the world of right and wrong, should and shouldn’t, good and bad, kind and unkind.

And the man who adheres to such fabricated and pseudo-righteous ideals is doomed.

Doomed!

He has no escape.

I will share with you One Truth in this discourse.

The manner in which the employee is terminated . . .

The manner in which the business relationship is ended . . .

Must accomplish one thing, if one is to live in peace after the separation.

And that is this:

It must be done in a way that incapacitates the mind.

For if the mind’s hands are tied, it cannot assault the man for doing what he felt he needed to do.

Understand this: If a man feels that a business relationship needs to be ended. Or if he feels that an employee needs to be fired, it is none of the mind’s business.

But it is also crucial to understand this: If one uses the previous statement as a recitation, a mantra, a self-talk, an aphorism, or an intellectual dictum, it will have zero effect.

For effectiveness is a function of visceral understanding.

It is Not a function of “doing,” “practicing,” or “following,” as some nonsensical prescription or “five-step plan.”

Such things are for the unserious.

When a relationship is to be ended, it must be done swiftly and without afterthought.

What I have just said sounds as if it is something that one “should do.” The mind will read it and say, “Oh I see. So I must do it quickly, and then make certain that I have no afterthought.”

This would be to misunderstand.

The Truth that I have stated is Not something one must “do.”

It is the Effect that naturally arises once the individual has Understood.

It may behoove you to read that again.

The turmoil that results from ending a relationship is the product of a mind that uses societal tenets as a hammer by which to strike the individual who believes in such tenets.

The man who does not subscribe to societal tenets becomes immune to the hammer.

The mind has yet another trick up its sleeve. And it may be employing it as we speak.

For after having read the previous sentence, it might have said to you, “But if I don’t believe in right and wrong, good or bad, kind or unkind, or any societal tenet, then this might make me a monster.”

This is how the mind traps the man yet again.

The Truth is, it is the very belief in societal tenets that makes a man a monster. And a miserable and self-conflicted one, at that.

Ironically, the one who does not subscribe to false constructs such as morality tends to be amongst the most compassionate of individuals.

Why?

Because he is Free to choose for himself.

Man is not wired to be a prisoner. Though a prisoner is precisely what he has become by following societal constructs.

And the monster that it has created is a self-righteous mind that uses every opportunity to strike him down with these pseudo-moralistic principles.

A man who is Free to do as he chooses will be compassionate and guiltless.

The one who follows societal dictums, pseudo-spiritual tenets, and subscribes to the false god of morality will live a life of untold turmoil.

And this strife will turn his soft heart into stone.

The man who devotes himself to becoming free of societal dictums . . .

The man who invests himself in becoming free of his own mind . . .

Will be a perfect and exemplary human who, having found freedom within himself, cannot help but bring freedom to the world.

Namaste.