The 38 Ways to Happiness :- Not Leaving one's Work Undone (2)

Blessing Fourteen:
Not Leaving one’s Work Undone

 

B. WHAT IS WORK?
B.1 Definition of work: physical and spiritual
When we talk of ‘work’ in a religious context we mean ‘a means of earning our living’. We cannot survive without money. We have to have something to eat — but don’t forget that food is of many types . . . It is just like a tree needs food, but the food that nourishes it is sucked up through the roots. The food for a light bulb is electrical current. Because work is simply a means of earning our living we thus divide work into two main components, neither of which we can afford to leave undone:

•    food for the body: For our body we need solid food. To get the food we need for our body we must find ourselves a job or a career. Work (physical) means the means by which we can nourish our body and its scope also reaches to such things as maintaining harmony with the other people around us.

•    food for the mind: food suitable for the mind is “merit” i.e. the fruits of our good deeds and spiritual development. Working on the mind doesn’t just mean feeling contented the whole of the time, but also to develop the mind to become wiser too.


 

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