work well in a safest way
Work While You Work, and Play While You Play
How can you be a slave of your own thoughts? How can you be a slave of activity? "No, no, I have to work. Without work, I don't feel happy." Work ethic they call it - beautiful term - work ethic. I call it work addiction. Some people call it work alcoholism or workaholism. It is no use working when you should not be working, when you need not work. We are beings who have a will, who have a mind, who have an intelligence, who must know when to work, when not to work, when to think, when not to think.
In the West, doing and working are more or less synonymous - "I am doing something" means I am working, and the work is supposed to be result-oriented, satisfaction-oriented, growth-oriented. But I don't think in the East we are so self-centred about work. In the Occident, when we talk about growth-orientation and progress-orientation and result-orientation, you work from a self-centred basis. I think in spirituality, the work is from a centred basis - no more self-centred basis, but just centred basis - the centre, the spiritual centre. So when we meditate, when we involve ourselves in spiritual sadhana, spiritual practice, it is certainly a centred practice, and in that sense it is evolutionary - evolution-oriented. But it is not satisfaction-oriented. It is not growth-oriented. Nor is it self-oriented.
"Work while you work, and play while you play." The meaning of the sentence seems to be self evident, and if someone claimed that it had deeper implications than its superficial meaning, people would tend to laugh at him. Don't we all work when we are working, and don't we play when we are playing? This would be the question that any one of us would automatically ask: if we were to deny it, they would be annoyed. It is the very simplicity of this old saw that hides its deeper meaning so vital for its true understanding. Simplicity seems to be the greatest deceiver of all.
A little self-examination shows that we
How can you be a slave of your own thoughts? How can you be a slave of activity? "No, no, I have to work. Without work, I don't feel happy." Work ethic they call it - beautiful term - work ethic. I call it work addiction. Some people call it work alcoholism or workaholism. It is no use working when you should not be working, when you need not work. We are beings who have a will, who have a mind, who have an intelligence, who must know when to work, when not to work, when to think, when not to think.
In the West, doing and working are more or less synonymous - "I am doing something" means I am working, and the work is supposed to be result-oriented, satisfaction-oriented, growth-oriented. But I don't think in the East we are so self-centred about work. In the Occident, when we talk about growth-orientation and progress-orientation and result-orientation, you work from a self-centred basis. I think in spirituality, the work is from a centred basis - no more self-centred basis, but just centred basis - the centre, the spiritual centre. So when we meditate, when we involve ourselves in spiritual sadhana, spiritual practice, it is certainly a centred practice, and in that sense it is evolutionary - evolution-oriented. But it is not satisfaction-oriented. It is not growth-oriented. Nor is it self-oriented.
"Work while you work, and play while you play." The meaning of the sentence seems to be self evident, and if someone claimed that it had deeper implications than its superficial meaning, people would tend to laugh at him. Don't we all work when we are working, and don't we play when we are playing? This would be the question that any one of us would automatically ask: if we were to deny it, they would be annoyed. It is the very simplicity of this old saw that hides its deeper meaning so vital for its true understanding. Simplicity seems to be the greatest deceiver of all.
A little self-examination shows that we