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A Good Career or Job for a Buddhist?
DaltheJigsaw
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A Good Career or Job for a Buddhist?
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*Light blue touchpaper and stand well back*....
Is Sales a good career?
Specifically, Technology/Clothes/Retail?
"When you go to work, think, 'I must achieve enlightenment in order to lead each and every sentient being to enlightenment. Therefore, I am going to do service for sentient beings by going to work.' If you are working in order to provide for your family, it is service to sentient beings. If you do not have to provide for your family, you nevertheless need the necessary material conditions in order to practice the Dharma so that you may attain enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings.
While you are at work, remember the kindness of the other sentient beings who gave you the job and who make it possible for you to earn a living. Thinking in this way helps to avoid generating negative emotions such as anger at work."
http://thubtenchodron.org/PrayersAndPractices/practicing_dharma_in_daily_life.html#Working
You may also want to check this page as well:
http://thubtenchodron.org/DailyLifeDharma/practicing_buddhism_in_daily_life.html
Any other lawyers here per chance?
I typically have to look at the positive side of things in order to get by. specifically, sitting at a desk all day gives me lots of time to study the dharma, and the money I bring in helps to support myself and my girlfriend, and is going to pay for me to get back to school, so I can finish my psychology degree.
It's definitely a toss-up.
There are honorable attorneys, and there are attorneys that cause nothing but tremendous suffering, all for the sake of money. And most play the middle ground between those two.
that's about it.
Look at Kirk Hammett from Metallica, he is a buddhist, and I'm sure the songs he has written have effected people.
My brother tried being a lawyer for a few years, and quit. he said the system is broken, it doesn't work. Lawyers' time costs the client too much, and if the client is suing a company, the company has the financial advantage. if the case goes to appeal, the client often has to quit.
But there are many areas of the law that are rewarding, though they don't pay as well as some other areas. I would think lawyer would be one of the most compatible professions (think of child advocacy, for example, or Civil Rights Law, Environmental Law, Federal Indian Law). PM me if you want to continue this discussion.
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Mintyfresh, any other metal stars who practice Buddhism that you know of?
Sorry to corrupt the thread but I am very interested - PM me if that is a better idea!
David Bowie, Steven Seagal, Courtney Love, Jackie Chan, Keanu Reeves, One of the beastie boys
The thread can now resume as scheduled lol:
I'm readying about gaming addiction right now and it seems to be be sort of a significant problem. I just took a video game creation course at college, didn't do so well in it though.
I play Starcraft so much when I close my eyes often I sort of see the visuals of the game. I came across someone else online who said the same thing.
Just a thought.
If I were to guess I'd say that 80 - 85 percent of the games I've owned consist only of murdering people.
I used to think counterfeiting would be a grand profession - then having taken precepts it occurred that the opposite - "reverse panhandling" would be the ideal....
Actually... music is a great way to have a buddhist job... my first song is called Samådhi, of the Nirvåna album (still needs some composition and arrangement).
How about marketing and sales? Toys, health products, sports gear, health services....etc.
I don't really like all of those things.
Maybe.. Here and there?
one of my jobs is as a massage therapist in a poker room. i sometimes have down time to spend observing. all in all, i do not see the job as particularly skillful. i understand what you are saying, you make money because you are simply better than the others. it is a test of skill. there is nothing inherently wrong with what you do, but when you add in the problem of people who are addicted to gambling, you will see a lot of suffering. i have made friendships with some people who just can't walk away. they keep buying in just to lose. it is very sad to see, indeed. but then again, you could also say that if you weren't there, there would always be someone else to take your place. you don't force them to play, they are adults who arrive at that decision all by themselves. everyone must do what they have to do to make a living, no? i think perhaps the solution would be to always be a generous person. i have seen players who really do remorse when they clean someone out, and sometimes they even toss the guy a few hundred back. i have a lot of respect for the people who keep their greed at a minimum. perhaps the best you can do is to be like this?
i hope this doesn't sound offensive or anything. i am no supreme authority, lol, just a person on the internet creating a discussion. but just fyi, although my purpose in the poker room is different than yours, i do feel sorrow and guilt sometimes as well just because i am so close to it.
you say you play professionally, does this mean you play in casinos for a living or you do tournaments? or both?