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Awakening entails economic pursuits that foster self-respect and self-reliance and that serve to integrate, rather than disperse, the energies of the local community. From the perspective of the Dharma, economic goals include not only production and profit, but also their human and environmental impact. The conservation of material resources, their humane use, and their equitable distribution are taken as preeminent concerns.
--Joanna Macy in "Mindfulness and Meaningful Work" by Claude Whitmyer
64. Although people work in order to be happy,
It is uncertain whether or not they will find it;
But how can those whose work itself is a joy,
Find happiness unless they do it?
~Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, translated by Stephen Batchelor
One of the major aims and purposes of religious practice for the individual is an inner transformation from an undisciplined, untamed, and unfocused state of mind towards one that is disciplined, tamed and balanced.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
--Joanna Macy in "Mindfulness and Meaningful Work" by Claude Whitmyer
64. Although people work in order to be happy,
It is uncertain whether or not they will find it;
But how can those whose work itself is a joy,
Find happiness unless they do it?
~Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, translated by Stephen Batchelor
One of the major aims and purposes of religious practice for the individual is an inner transformation from an undisciplined, untamed, and unfocused state of mind towards one that is disciplined, tamed and balanced.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama