Employment
How should we use our time?
For most all of us,
what determines what we do
is our choice of career, job, and project.
What can you do that is responsible?
Our choice is first of profession
and being responsible for commitments
on behalf of our families, and others.
We work to succeed, to become strong and eminant
in part to transcend unconscious needs and fears
of being alone, sick, depressing, and a drag,
and of humiliation, failure, and inadequacy.
If we don't work, we will not be competitive
and we still have to find a solution to owing
and to deciding what to do by day, hour and moment
something even saints find difficult.
My advice is to find a profession, job, and project
that does not demean or compromise,
does not ignore the problems of others,
does not entail fear or stress,
and does not exascerbate conflicts
within yourself, or with others.
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Basic Buddhist guidelines are listed in my Buddhism in a Nutshell
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