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+JOB YOGA
+PART ONE: Lee-ann’s Dilemma
+
+“Lee-ann, everything looks good,” Keith said at a late Friday afternoon meeting, “but you also need to make sure that the new product is backwards compatible with all of our older software components.”
+“What? I’m responsible for that?” Lee-ann questioned. “That wasn’t in the original specification. That could take our team weeks of effort!”
+“Well, we need to plan for it now,” Keith responded, “we have to roll this product out on time with no compatibility issues.” 
+Lee-ann noted the new requirements from her boss Keith, but shook her head thinking, “I will have to spend all weekend re-planning everything!” 
+
+Before Lee-ann could put her pen down, Julie, the business analysis manager, pushed a docket of papers at Lee-ann from across the table and said, “Also Lee-ann, could you review the business requirements document for completeness and get back to me by next week?”
+“That’s not in my job description!” Lee-ann complained. “Why do you always ask me to review the business requirements? Your team is responsible for the business requirements. My team will develop a product that meets the requirements that you define.”
+“But Lee-ann!” Julie said pressing her lips with frustration, “you work along side the business analysts and might find technical details that they missed.”
+
+“And it has to be tested 100%!” Tim, the product manager, said, before Lee-ann could retort. “The QA department is stretched thin, so I need your team to quality check every piece of code and do some stress testing too.” 
“I’m not going to schedule any additional testing!” Lee-ann countered. “My team only does unit testing. I don’t have the resources to pick up the slack for the QA department. You’re going to have to take it up with them.”
+
+Julie and Tim pressed their demands while Lee-ann defensively argued back. When Lee-ann looked to Keith for support, she found he was leaning back in his chair, text messaging on his iPhone. “Why are all of my projects at work always like this?” Lee-ann muttered, exacerbated.  
+  
+Lee-ann was a middle manager at a large high-tech products and services company. Lee-ann had a degree from a prominent university. She had contributed to and managed numerous projects in her laborious eight-year career. She was both a capable software engineer and a project manager. She had been with the company for only a couple of years, but had already fallen into the same old dissatisfactions about her work that she experienced with her previous employer. 
+
+Though Lee-ann was performing well for the company and was well liked by many of her peers, she was slipping into deep despair. Her boss, Keith, constantly changed requirements and shuffled her resources, making it next to impossible for Lee-ann to complete her projects on time. Worse than that was that Lee-ann couldn’t see eye to eye with the product and business analysis managers. She found herself irritated and defensive when responding to their demands in meetings. She always left these meetings feeling angry and taken advantage of.
+
+Even when Keith and the other managers weren’t causing problems, Lee-ann was unhappy. She felt that her work was pointless. It seemed like she was in the same old routine, like a mouse running on an immobile spinning wheel. Lee-ann had left her old job two years ago because of this frustration, but found that after a few months at her new job that she felt exactly the same…stuck. 
+
+Lee-ann couldn’t see a way out or a way up. She would have been motivated to advance her career, but felt that she was near the ceiling and couldn’t see a way through. The next big career step for her would be to become a department head. The position that Lee-ann would have been ideal for was held by Keith for over ten years, so it seemed impossible for Lee-ann to get a promotion.
+
+Lee-ann had lost her passion for her work. Her job was unfulfilling. The aggravation in dealing with pushy co-workers and changing requirements discouraged her further. She felt that 90% of what she did at work was ultimately useless and that she couldn’t get into a position in the company that would really give her a chance to shine. Her work left Lee-ann feeling unhappy about her career and her life.
+
+“25 more years of this and paying into my 401k and I can retire.” Lee-ann thought. The weight of the time and the poor prospects for opportunity and fulfillment pressed down on Lee-ann like a ton of bricks. “Is there more for me in my work? Can I get to the next level? Is there a way that I can be happy at my job?” Lee-ann wondered.
+
+The next day, Lee-ann would get her answers. Keith asked her and a couple other middle managers to attend the monthly inter-departmental status meeting. This was a routine meeting to promote greater departmental cross-functional support, but usually proceeded to be a shouting match about the differing views of each department’s responsibilities and priorities. 
+
+Lee-ann arrived on time to the early morning meeting. As the meeting attendees arrived and chattered over by the breakfast treys, Lee-ann dreamed about becoming a department head someday. The benefits of running the software engineering department and having the power to do things the way she really thought would be best for the company was even more attractive to her than the large salary increase. She had the right experience in technology and management. She already managed the operations of one of her department’s most important teams. But how could she even consider pushing for her boss’s job. Keith had become a friend, and while she felt that she had better process management skills, she knew Keith had better departmental vision. “Anyway,” Lee-ann thought, “I’m just not competitive like that.” She dropped the idea. 
+
+Lee-ann was slumped in her seat, eating a bagel and reviewing her standard-answer status to report when the CEO of the company arrived with a small entourage. Lee-ann, as well as all of the other meeting attendees, immediately sat up formally and dropped their bagels on their plates. The CEO had never made an appearance at one of these meetings before.
+
+“Good morning,” The CEO said, “I’ve come today to let you all know that our new product initiative has become critical to our long term strategy and that we must overcome our inter-departmental delays to get to market before we lose the opportunity. “
+
+She continued, “To promote better inter- departmental communication and productivity, I’ve hired a highly effective business management consultant.  Sam, would you please stand up?”
+
+One of the men who had arrived with the CEO stood from his seat. He was wearing a buttoned blue, pinstriped suit and a colorful tie. Out of sync with the almost somber atmosphere of the room, Sam waved at the audience with a large smile and an almost bowing nod. 
+
+Sam looked familiar to Lee-ann and his name rang a bell too. Lee-ann wondered if she had seen Sam speak at a recent tradeshow or if she’d seen his picture in a management journal. Lee-ann peered at Sam, trying to remember where she’d seen him before.  
+
+The CEO concluded, “Sam comes highly recommended and I’m trusting him to help us overcome some of our usual obstacles and inefficiencies. Over to you Sam.”
+
+Sam thanked the CEO who was now departing. Then Sam thanked the audience for their time and attention. Sam paused for long minute looking at the audience. Lee-ann glanced around too. The department heads looked skeptically back at Sam. In the past they had resisted the advice of outside consultants, each considering themselves the eminent authority on their business.
+
+Sam nodded and said, “Before we talk about how we’re going to get this product to market, I have a bigger question. This is a question for you individually. This is a question for each person in this room.”
+
+Sam paused. The ruffling of papers ceased. Cynical eyebrows rose. The critical audience was listening, slightly bemused.
+ 
+Sam asked, “Why do you work?” 
+He paused another moment and then continued, “I mean, why do you come here everyday and go through this… process?
+
+The meeting attendees incredulously considered Sam’s question.
+Sam looked around the room and said, “It’s not just for the paycheck is it? No, there’s more to this than a paycheck.”
+
+Sam continued, “I’m asking you this question, because it begs a deeper answer. The first time I asked this question, haphazardly, I got a response that changed my perspective of work completely. 
+
+I was washing my hands in the men’s restroom at a fortune 500 company after a long day of meetings. As I turned around to leave, I herd a flush and saw a middle-aged janitor exiting a toilet stall with copious cleaning supplies in hand. He was smiling cheerfully.
+
+Jokingly, I said, “I guess someone’s got to do the dirty work around here.”
+With remarkable sincerity the man answered, “I’m happy to clean toilets, mop floors, and pick up trash all day, sir.” He had a notable genuineness that begged me to ask, “Why? Why do you do this work?”
+He answered, “I’m happy to do this work. My work provides for my family, it gives me purpose, and an honorable way of life.”
+
+Sam repeated the janitors answer slowly with emphasis, “I’m happy to do this work. My work provides for my family, it gives me purpose, and an honorable way of life.”
+
+Looking at all meeting attendees from left to right Sam said, “There’s a deeper reason that we work. We work to support our lives and our loved ones. We work because it’s our livelihood, the way we provide for our life and things in our life. We spend eight or more hours each day here, doing our best so our company can succeed because it’s our purposeful gesture of our character, our unique expression of our lives. Our work is who we are. Our work is our higher nature to give attention and impeccability to a common constructive goal.” 
+
+The audience was engaged. Sam’s words fascinated them.
+
+“Why do you work? I bet you don’t even have words for the deepest answer. Why do you work? It’s more of a deep, exact, yet indescribable feeling. You work because of this feeling. It’s the feeling of supporting your family. It’s the feeling of meeting your life’s career goals. It’s the feeling of personal power.”
+
+Lee-ann saw several heads nodding around the room. 
+
+Now with this feeling in mind, I’d like you to introduce yourself to me, telling me what work you do and why you work. Bring to mind the value your work provides to your family, your lifestyle, and the good things in your life, and then introduce yourself to me.”
+
+Sam paused and said, “Let me begin. I’ll introduce myself to you.”
+
+Sam paused again and said, softly, “I’m Sam and I’m here to help you work together as a team to deliver the new product on time. I work because it gives my life meaning, brings me fulfillment, and allows me to do what I love most, help people in their success.”  
+
+Sam opened and extended his hand, palm up, as an invitation for the audience to introduce themselves to him.
+
+There was a long moment of silence while the department heads reflected on Sam’s words. Then Lee-ann’s boss, seemingly motivated like never before said in a sincere and powerful voice, “I’m Keith Smith. I work to build software products for the product management department so the company can remain competitive in the market. I work so that I can put my girls through college and to provide a carefree retirement for my wife and I.”
+
+Then the QA manager spoke surely, “I’m Deborah Plum. I work to ensure that the product engineering department delivers the highest quality products in the world. I work to provide for my kids and to buy our house. And as some of you now my mother recently became very ill, so I also work to provide for her medical needs.” 
 
+Then, each of the department heads and middle managers in turn stated their names and a powerful statement about why they work. Everyone listened with great interest as their colleagues explained why they work. The usually grumpy and territorial department heads openly shared what they cared about that their work provided for. The room filled with a mood of heart-warming support and even a little laughter when a couple young managers made statements like, “I work for my new sports car,” and “I work for my girlfriend’s Gucci shoes and Louis Vetton hand bags.”
+ 
+When it was Lee-ann’s turn, she felt that she fumbled through her statement about helping Keith build quality products for the company and working to provide for her family. She felt somehow more insincere than the others. She was also a bit distracted, because she noticed that Sam knew her too. She saw a flash of recognition in Sam’s eyes when she stated her name. “Where do I know him from?” Lee-ann wondered.
+
+Sam layed out a straightforward meeting agenda. He enthusiastically relayed a product delivery vision, time-line, and development plan. He energized the department heads and got them to buy into his vision. Sam was keen to identify the major problems between the departments. He cut out the bickering about history and personal attacks, and got them to focus on fixing the problems at hand. 
+
+When two department heads found an innovative way to solve a problem, Sam said, “That’s how we used to get things done when I was R&D!” Sam shot a glance over to Lee-ann. Then it hit her. She had seen Sam before! Not at a trade fare or in a management journal, but she worked with him at her previous employer. Lee-ann and Sam were managers in the same department for a couple of years. Lee-ann was now able to place Sam’s face, but now shock was setting in. Sam was so different than he was before. He was now so energetic, vibrant, and unbelievably positive.
+
+At their previous employer, Sam was much the same as Lee-ann in his demeanor; uninspired, un-energetic, and just getting through the daily routine. Sam and Lee-ann had spoken numerous times in the past, but the most memorable moment was when Lee-ann heard that Sam Had tendered his resignation. Lee-ann asked Sam why, while the two where standing by the water cooler. “Do you have something else lined up?” Lee-ann remembered asking.
+“No,” Sam had said.
+“Aren’t you going to find another job?” Lee-ann had asked.
+Sam’s answer had stayed in the back of Lee-ann’s mind ever since. Sam had answered, “Before I do that, I’ve got to find myself.”
+
+Lee-ann felt that Sam had freed himself. It really seemed like he’d gotten out of the trap Lee-ann had stayed in. It looked like Sam had taken a new path that made him successful and happy.
+
+When the meeting had ended with a supportive speech from Sam, the department heads applauded. Lee-ann lined up behind a few of the department heads who were shaking Sam’s hand. When Lee-ann, who was last, finally approached Sam, Sam said, “It’s nice to see you again Lee-ann. It’s been a few years since we worked together.”
+
+Lee-ann was glad that Sam remembered her. Lee-ann rushed to the big question on her mind, “How did you do it? You were like me at before. How did you change?”
+
+Sam answered, “Well, I realized that I could be a much more effective resource to businesses by using my strengths as a consultant.”
+
+“Yes, but before, you were like me, a bump on a log. You were grumpy and always pushed back on challenges or scope changes. You seemed really scattered in meetings. You were bullied by co-workers and seemed afraid to speak up. Now you’re organized, confident, and help others solve problems and overcome their challenges.”
+
+Lee-ann paused and said, “More than anything else though, I can see a something deeper about you. I can see that you’re happy with your work and with your life. You used to hate your job. How did you change? That’s the change I need to make. Can you help me?”  
+
+Sam looked Lee-ann directly in the eyes. He paused for a long moment, then, gathering his materials, Sam said, “Let me take you to lunch. I’ll tell you the secret of my career transformation over lunch. “
+
+Lee-ann agreed and they walked a few blocks to a popular upscale lunch spot. On the way Lee-ann shared her feelings of discontent about her career. She described her dreams of becoming a department head, and making a real difference for the company. Sam listened attentively, commiserating with Lee-ann’s woes and encouraging her dreams. 
+
+Finally seated at a quiet patio table. Lee-ann asked, “Now Sam, what is the secret to your change? Sam paused, sat up and said, “I’m telling you this because I want to help you. I was a lot like you before, so I understand the difficulties you’re going through. 
+
+“Now it might sound strange at first, but be opened minded, this secret has changed my life.”

Lee-ann nodded, saying, “OK,” openly.
+
+“The secret to my success,” Sam said, “to my transformation from unhappiness with my work to career satisfaction is…” Sam paused. 
+Lee-ann leaned in, eager to know. 
+Sam continued, “The secret to personal fulfillment and career success is Job Yoga!” 
+
+“Job Yoga?” Lee-ann questioned.
+Sam nodded saying, “Four years ago after I quit, I became a Job Yogi and learned how to find personal happiness and fulfillment in my career.”
+
+“What is Job Yoga?” Lee-ann asked, “Is it some kind of secret stretches that you do that help you work better?” Lee-ann imagined Sam in a dark oak corner office contorted like a pretzel in his immaculate blue suit.
+
+“No,” Sam answered chuckling. “Job Yoga is quite different than the stretching exercises you’d do at a Hatha Yoga studio. Job Yoga is a mindfulness practice of attention to work that Buddhist monks would do, and it’s based on the 5,000 year old teachings of Krishna.” 
+
+“Krishna?” Lee-ann questioned, raising an eyebrow. “Are you like a Hare Krishna or something?”
+
+“No,” Sam answered, “but this is where you have to keep an opened mind.”
+Lee-ann nodded.
+Sam continued, “Though I now have a lot of respect for his teachings, I don’t practice religious devotion to Krishna. I’m an atheist. Krishna’s teachings on Yoga are non-religious. They are simple observances and practices of how to work better and how to be successful and happy doing it.”
+
+“So, what do you do in Job Yoga?” Lee-ann asked.
+
+“You work selflessly and impeccably.” Sam answered. “You follow Buddhist observances of detachment and integrity. You learn how to deal with the transience of life. You learn how to discern what to focus on when problems arise.  You learn how to work with others so that goals are reached efficiently while all members of the group are empowered.”
+ 
+“Sorry Sam, but all of this is a little foreign to me.” Lee-ann said, “Selflessness, detachment, transience, and group empowerment just seem like abstract New Age concepts. It’s not the reality of my workplace.”
+
+Sam nodded and said, “But Lee-ann you’ve just participated in Job Yoga earlier today. It’s not New Age or abstract. Job Yoga is happening in your workplace now.”
+
+“Think back,” Sam continued, “In the meeting today the department heads started to working together as a cohesive group. They got back to the integrity of their positions and started doing their best work for the company. They let go of some of their old quarrels to move ahead and make progress. They worked the problems together rather than making problems out of each other. They were selfless and impeccable. They started doing Job Yoga.”
+
+It dawned on Lee-ann that Sam was right. The department heads were some of the most stubborn folks she’d seen and they opened right up and did what Sam explained as Job Yoga.
+
+“How Sam?” How did you get the department heads to listen to you? I’ve seen them eat business consultants for lunch in the past.”

“It’s simple,” Sam said, “I reminded them of the first principal of Job Yoga; Selflessness. I reminded them of why they work. We all have a deeply spiritual reason for why we work. There are lots of other reasons too, but the essential reason that we work is a spiritual reason. We work for love. We work for the love of our children, for the love of our families, and the love of our country and the world. We work for the love of our life. We love our life deep down inside and that’s why we work. Love works.”
+
+Lee-ann was floored! Sam’s words pointed out the very thing that Lee-ann had been searching for in her work. This glimpse at the spiritual essence of work ignited a passion in Lee-ann to learn more.
+
+Mentored by Sam, Lee-ann embarked on the study of Job Yoga. She became a Job Yogi and found great success and fulfillment. Lee-ann became a department head and delivered the new product with great success. How Lee-ann did it is a story we’ll investigate in the second part of this book.
+ 
+
+PART 2: THE YOGA FOR THE WEST
+
+JOB YOGA, THE SPIRITUAL PATH THAT WORKS
+
+When we hear of Buddhist practice, spiritual discipline, and the pathway to enlightenment, thoughts of monks, swamis, and Zen masters immediately come to mind. We imagine the pathway to enlightenment to be a lofty spiritual ideal, set apart by subtle observances, sacred ceremonies, and strict disciplines. We fantasize that spiritual practice must take place in a mountain monastery in China, a forest ashram in India, or perhaps a cave among the Himalayan peaks.
+
+In contrast, our world of businessmen, sales reps, engineers, and service agents appear to be contrary to any kind of spiritual prominence. In our world of corporate goals, operational mandates, and fiscal pressures, we see our work as mundane toil, ultimately devoid of spiritual meaning. We view our world of offices, cubicles, and drab working environments as standing in stark opposition to any spiritual setting. 
+
+As we envision spiritual practice to be so mythical and majestic, it’s easy to imagine success for some austere bald monk, yet it’s hard to see ourselves engaging in, let alone succeeding in such an unfathomable discipline.
+
+We think of enlightened practice we think that it is exalted, different, and fantasy-like. We judge that our lives are far removed from this magnificent ideal. From these notions, we conclude that enlightened practice is something else, somewhere else, and really only possible for someone else.
+
+The truth is that the pathway to enlightenment is not as inaccessible as you may think. Enlightened practice is not outside of your ability to grasp. It is not somewhere else far away. It is not only for monks in monasteries or the disciples of secret mystical traditions. The truth is that enlightened practice is available to you. 
+
+The pathway to enlightenment is comprehensible, here and now, and relevant to you. Enlightened practice can be done by you, in your work, in your workplace. Your world of work, career, and livelihood is the world of enlightened practice. The truth of the pathway to enlightenment and your place on it comes together in Job Yoga. 
+
+Job Yoga is the pathway to enlightenment through work.  It is the study of selfless and impeccable attention to work. It is the practice of perfecting your work and perfecting your mind through work.  It is the spiritual discipline of excelling in your work, and through your work cultivating greater spiritual awareness.
+
+Job Yoga is an ancient spiritual practice employed by Hindu yogis and Buddhist monks as a method to attain enlightenment.  It was taught as Karma Yoga 5000 years ago by Krishna, a prominent figure in Hindu religion, and re-codified in Buddhist teachings 2500 years ago as Right Livelihood by Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. 
+
+Krishna was one of the first teachers to talk about Job Yoga, what he called Karma Yoga, the pathway to enlightenment through spiritual action. Krishna taught that through consecrated work, one could come to know the deepest truths of life and come into union with all of being. He taught that work should be considered a spiritual sacrifice and that one should not be attached to the results of ones labors. Krishna said, “Perform your work as a sacrifice to the divine. Your duty is to work but not to expect the fruits of your labor.” 
+
+Over a thousand years later Buddha formulated a popular pathway to enlightenment called the Eight Fold Path. The Eight Fold Path included all of the fundamentals of Krishna’s teachings on Karma Yoga. Buddha re-codified the principles of Yoga for a new age. He created a new expression of Yoga to address the conditions of life he saw for his students. A key principle of Buddha’s Eight Fold Path is Right Livelihood. Right Livelihood is Buddha’s teachings that direct one to attain enlightenment through their work.
+
+Both Krishna and Buddha taught Yoga. Although the outer forms of their schools were different, the essence of their spiritual teachings is the same. They both taught Yoga in its essence. They both taught an effective system of meditation, contemplation, and focused attention for perfecting one’s life. 
+
+Many Buddhist and Hindu schools have incorporated this form of Yoga in order to successfully deal with life in practical terms while still engaging in the pathway to enlightenment. This Yoga is a practice of purifying your mind through work or action. 
+
+Buddhism incorporates Yoga in its most fundamental teachings. Buddhist texts are some of the earliest doctrines describing contemplative techniques and the dynamics of the process of enlightenment through work.
+
+This book describes Karma Yoga and the Buddha’s teachings on Right Livelihood as Job Yoga. It is called Job Yoga because these teachings on enlightened action, attention, and awareness are perfectly suited to be incorporated in work, whatever your occupation. This book describes the ancient principles of enlightened practice as it pertains to a Westerner’s life and experience. 
+
+Job Yoga can be applied today in the West as successfully as it was applied in the East thousands of years ago.  By learning Job Yoga, you can learn Buddha and Krishna’s methods for career success and learn the way to liberation through perfecting your work.
+
+Job Yoga is non-religious. Although it was taught by two of India’s greatest spiritual teachers, the practices in Job Yoga are universal, healthy, and accessible to all. Much like taking Hatha Yoga, Tai Chi, or meditation classes, you can gain real physical, mental, and emotional benefits without studying the religious or philosophical aspects of the disciplines.
+
+Job Yoga is an authentic enlightened practice. It is a set of observations, approaches, considerations, reflections, focuses and directions that are used in a structured methodology in order to create success in one’s life. Enlightened practice results in happiness, success, empowerment, clarity, energy, balance and wisdom. Job Yoga derives and applies these benefits to work.
+
+In this book you will learn a Buddhist form of Job Yoga that incorporates both the teachings of Krishna and Buddha.  You will explore the fundamental observations of Job Yoga and see how it can be applied to your life, both for succeeding in your career goals and for developing greater spiritual awareness. 
+
+THE FIRST STORY OF JOB YOGA
+
+We often think of the spiritual path and the teachings of Yoga as being serene, meditative, and exalted. We see our work and the working world as being filled with difficulty, conflict, and struggle. Our work is often fixing problems, putting out fires, and dealing with emergencies. Our work is arduous, demanding, and seemingly never ending. Our workplace is filled with complicated and often antagonizing relationships with co-workers and customers. 
+
+When we compare our spiritual ideals to our career path we see great inconsistency and contradiction. The two appear at odds. We think that the teachings of Yoga are relaxing and sublime while the working world is disturbing, abrasive, and bleak. Though there appears to be a great contrast, we need to broaden our awareness of the spiritual path because the first teachings of Yoga happened on a battlefield.
+
+Arjuna was a renowned warrior from central India. His dearest advisor, Krishna, drove him in his chariot on to the battlefield to wage a dynastic war. As Arjuna peered out at his enemy, he saw that the opposing army was filled with many of his associates, friends, . 
+
+Seeing that so many good acquaintances were set to fight for the other side, Arjuna fell into deep despair. He was saddened to see that loved ones would stand against him. He was unable to see people who were once his friends as enemies in battle. He sadly decided not to fight. He didn’t want to win a war against people he knew and loved.  
+
+Seeing Arjuna paralyzed by confusion and emotional suffering, Krishna spoke to him about the teachings of Yoga. Krishna told Arjuna that Yoga was the way out of suffering and the way to success. He said that Arjuna incorrectly comprehended the battle before him. He said that Arjuna saw problems and suffered because of his own expectations of the results of his work. He said that by following the path of Yoga, Arjuna would find a way to do his work that would promote a higher truth and would have positive and satisfying results. He said that Arjuna could succeed in his work, transcend his suffering, and know the divine by following the path of Yoga. 
+
+Krishna taught Arjuna about the Yoga of knowledge, seeing infinite truth in and beyond all transient phenomena. He taught Arjuna about the Yoga of love, devoting oneself to the divine and coming to see that in enlightened love all things are in union. Most of all Krishna taught Arjuna about the Yoga of spiritual action. He taught Arjuna to do his duty, the work life put before him. He taught Arjuna to dedicate his work to the divine, to not desire or be attached to any particular outcome, and to do his work perfectly, no matter what the situation or what sides his friends chose to be on.    
+
+Krishna then revealed himself to Arjuna as an Avatara, a liberated, enlightened, and God-realized being. He showed Arjuna his immortal form, his eternal mind. Arjuna perceived Krishna as a God-like presence filled with infinite wisdom. Arjuna witnessed Krishna shift into endless benevolent and wrathful forms before him. He saw Krishna to have thousands of powers coming forth and waning in an endless procession of consciousness.
+
+In receiving the teachings on the Yoga of action and seeing Krishna’s enlightened form, Arjuna set his sorrows and misgivings aside. He set out to perform his duty selflessly. He made his work an offering to the divine. In doing yoga, he was able to win the battle, transcend his sorrows, and overcome his dilemma with enlightened results, for it was said that when Arjuna road out into battle and lifted his bow dispassionately at the opposing army, friends and enemies alike, that many of his relations and acquaintances fled the battle field, wanting no part of war. 
+
+It is often said that business is war and that work is hardship. Though at first it may appear that the spiritual path and a job are worlds apart, when we understand the truth about Yoga, we see that they are one in the same. Work is the perfect battleground to walk the path of Yoga.   
+
+BUDDHIST JOB YOGA
+
+Most Westerners see their work as being completely separate and different from their spiritual life. For most people, the rat race of their 9-5 sharply contrasts with their states of mind and awareness when in church on Sunday. Remarkably, Buddha taught that work and spiritual practice are one in the same. 
+
+Buddha had students who were noble lords, landowners, and wealthy merchants. He also had students who were poor farmers, peasants, and monks. He saw that work is an activity that is compulsory for all people and that through enlightened attention to work, one could experience tremendous spiritual advancement. Having himself been both a crown prince and a wandering spiritual ascetic, Buddha derived a holistic approach to enlightenment for all of his students. Buddha created a pathway to enlightenment that would work for a busy merchant, a pressured farmer, or a renunciate monk. 
+
+Born a prince, the Buddha left his crown and kingdom to seek freedom from the suffering of death and the transience of his royal life. After mastering the contemporary spiritual disciplines of his time, Buddha went on to found a new pathway to liberation based on his own experience of enlightenment. 
+
+Buddha’s Yoga is a grounded acknowledgement of the nature of suffering in life and a pathway to liberation from suffering by following eight tenets he called the Eightfold Path.  The Eightfold Path is a set of spiritual observances that lead to enlightenment and the end of suffering. It is a practice of awareness that frees an individual from attachment and delusion. Buddha’s Yoga is a practical and pragmatic discipline by which you refine your being and purify your awareness of life.  
+
+The Eightfold Path includes these steps:
+1. Right View - to see and apprehend things as they really are, beyond limited concepts
+2. Right Intention – committed determination to do that, which is enabling of life and awakening
+3. Right Speech – speaking and communicating only that which causes unity  
+4. Right Action – to act perfectly, precisely, and impeccably 
+5. Right Livelihood – to harmoniously earn a living that provides for your physical and spiritual needs 
+6. Right Effort – to endeavor to do what would be good and useful to yourself and others  
+7. Right Mindfulness – to monitor mental activity and direct the mind to positive thoughts
+8. Right Meditation – to concentrate and focus perfectly
+
+A Yogi engages in the observances of the Eightfold Path in all aspects of their life. The eight steps of the path are not meant to be sequential or optional. All the principles of the path are interdependent and simultaneous. A Yogi addresses each step of the Eightfold Path at the same time as necessary for the situation that they are in. Each of the eight aspects of the path are intrinsic to success and liberation.
+
+Work, Right Livelihood, is an integral part of Buddha’s teachings for enlightenment. Buddha ardently pointed out in his spiritual teachings that work is equally as important a spiritual discipline as meditation in enlightened practice. The Eightfold Path is the way to succeed in your work and to be happy in doing it. The observances of concentration, mindfulness, effort, action, speech, intent, and view are all supportive of work that brings both financial success and liberation from suffering.
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+UNDERSTANDING YOGA
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+Yoga is a Sanskrit word that means union. In the West we associate the term Yoga with one type of Yoga, Hatha Yoga, and think Yoga to be stretching, postures, breathing and calisthenics exercises for physical health. Yet Hatha Yoga is actually a more recent adaptation of the traditional Yoga teachings.  Hatha Yoga has a greater emphasis on bringing spiritual balance and union through attention to the physical body while in traditional Yoga there is a greater focus on the mind. 
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+In Asia, Yoga is known more to be contemplative spiritual practices than physical exercises. Yoga is understood to be meditative techniques for gaining siddhas, or miraculous powers, and attaining enlightenment.  Common forms of traditional Yogas are: Jana Yoga - the Yoga of knowledge, Bhakti Yoga- the Yoga of devotion, and Karma Yoga – the Yoga of spiritual action.
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+The goals of Yoga are both practical and ultimate. The practical results of Yoga are experienced as soon as you begin. Even one hour of Yoga results in a clearer mind, sharper attention, and a greater sense of well-being. As soon as you start doing Yoga, your work improves and you experience a greater degree of spiritual balance. As you continue to practice Yoga these results increase. Yoga is practical in that it makes you successful, healthy, and happy now. Yoga teachings are grounded and intelligent, directing you to live a positive and constructive life. 
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+Yoga’s final goal is supreme in nature. Krishna and Buddha taught that through the mastery of Yoga you can experience eternal bliss and achieve liberation from all worldly suffering. Ultimately, Yoga is a way of unifying the individual human soul with the supreme and infinite nature of being. It is a methodical spiritual discipline for transcending suffering and attaining enlightenment. 
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+Krishna taught that enlightenment is ultimate self-knowledge. It is unlimited awareness of life. Buddha said that you can’t conceptually understand what it is, but you can say that enlightenment is something very natural, powerful, luminous, and positive in life. They both taught that enlightenment is the essence of life where all things come together and are joined in a powerful ecstatic union. Enlightenment is complete awareness, perfect awareness. It is the awareness of the unity of life, your union with eternity. It’s powerful and beautiful. Yogis tread upon the spiritual path, to seek that, to find that, to be connected with and unified with that light. 
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+KARMA YOGA
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+Krishna taught Arjuna Karma Yoga, the Yoga of spiritual action. He taught Arjuna to perform his work as a means of spiritual liberation. Karma Yoga is the basis of Job Yoga. Job Yoga is Karma Yoga in your career. Understanding Karma Yoga fundamentals helps you apply Krishna’s teachings to your life.
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+Karma is a Sanskrit word meaning action. Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. Our karma is the sum total of our actions. What happened to us yesterday, what is happening to us today, and what will happen to us tomorrow are all results of our actions, our karma. 
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+Put together with the word Yoga, Karma Yoga means: the way to union through action. Karma Yoga is the path of spiritual unity through consecrated work. Karma Yoga is the doing of work while intending union with the divine. Karma Yoga is dedicated work. It is work that is dedicated to the divine. In Karma Yoga we try to work perfectly, yet we remain unattached to the results of our work. For the purpose of this book, we shall study Karma Yoga: The Yoga of action. 
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+The results of action are inseparable from the actions themselves. The results of actions are important considerations in Karma Yoga to inform proper action. In Karma Yoga, spiritual unity is achieved through the enlightened results of enlightened actions. If you act with purity, pragmatism, and intelligence you will succeed in any endeavor, including the spiritual path. If you act with selfish desire, arrogance, and recklessness you will reap only temporary gains amidst a backdrop of sorrows.  
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+Karma is created through three aspects. Karma is initiated with intention. Then it is conceived in thought. Then it is accomplished with will. Behind all actions are intentions and thoughts. 
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+At a spiritual level you direct your intent for action. You may have a desire to gain education so that you can succeed in a career. Then your thoughts initiate, forming and planning what it is and what you can do. You conceive what benefits education would offer you, what schools are available to you, and how to go about starting classes. Finally, your will executes the action and the deed is physicalized. You apply to a school and start attending classes.
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+There is no fate but what we make. Karma Yoga shows us that we are responsible for our lives, for our work, and for our happiness. Destiny is created by your thoughts, feelings, words, actions, and habits. You can improve your condition in life by changing your thoughts and habits. Through Karma Yoga a villain can become a saint and a beggar can become a millionaire.
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+Karma yoga encourages optimistic thinking and confident action. Practicing Karma yoga keeps you from falling into darkness and folly and leads you to a virtuous, peaceful, and happy life. Knowledge of karma yoga helps you bear the difficulties of suffering with patience, endurance, and understanding. Through attention to karma yoga greed, hatred, and passion vanish, virtue grows and your consciousness expands. 
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+We all must act. Action of some kind or the other is unavoidable. Even if you refrain from physical activity, thoughts proceed as mental activity. Complete inaction is impossible, so using your actions and your work as part of your pathway to enlightenment is helpful. 
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+Yogic action brings you to enlightenment. Your intention within the spiritual structure of the Yoga of action is what brings you to a different place than any other action. The teachings of Yoga teach you the inner way to enlightenment through consecrated action. 
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+Through work, activity, and service you can master spiritual discipline. When work is done without an expectation of gain, it is liberating. When you work unselfishly you will be freed from all bonds and enjoy peace. When you act as an instrument of the divine, your work becomes the pathway to enlightenment.  
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+TIBET’S GREAT YOGI
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+When we Westerners think about our unglamorous work duties and tasks, it’s hard to imagine that such mundane dross could be used for enlightened practice. When we think about the pressure from our antagonizing managers and the meaninglessness of our toil, it may seem that our work could never live up to the ideals of Job Yoga.
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+Fortunately we have the Job Yoga example of Milareapa to demystify our understanding of what is involved in Job Yoga. Milareapa was a famous Yogi who lived in Tibet a thousand years ago. The story of this Buddhist master describes how he succeeded on the pathway to enlightenment through Job Yoga. We can learn invaluable lessons of persistence, selflessness, and the transformative power of Job Yoga from his example.
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+In starting off on his spiritual quest, Milareapa was in bad shape. In a revenge plot, he had just killed several people from his village and wounded a dozen more by pulling out the large rafters of the house where his uncle and aunt were hosting a wedding party.
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+When Milareapa was a young boy his wealthy father fell ill and died. At his father’s dying request, Milareapa’s uncle and aunt took Milareapa, his mother, and his sister into their care. Milareapa’s father also requested that they guard his fortune until Milareapa was old enough to marry.  
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+Sadly, Milareapa’s uncle and aunt seized his inheritance as their own. They lived lives of wealth and pleasure while making Milareapa’s family live in squalid conditions. Milareapa suffered greatly growing up. Dependant on his uncle and aunt, he and his mother and sister were left hungry, and destitute. When Milareapa reached the age of marriage his uncle and aunt refused his inheritance. 
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+Sorrowful and seeking vengeance, Milareapa’s mother had ordered him to take revenge on his uncle and aunt and all of the villagers who aided them in causing their suffering. His mother threatened to kill herself if he wouldn’t kill their enemies. Milareapa, concerned for his mother’s life, obediently agreed to her wishes. 
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+After the attack, Milareapa was banned from the village. His mother was happy about her revenge, though it didn’t improve her life. Milareapa lived in the hills and was tormented by nightmares and horrific visions of his act of vengeance. He felt sorrowful from taking revenge and sought a way to free himself from his mental suffering. 
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+Milareapa heard about a way to free himself from suffering. He had heard that in Buddhism he could find the peace he sought. Upon learning this Milareapa longed for a spiritual life. 
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+Milareapa sought to find a teacher. He came to a well-regarded teacher and asked if Buddhism could help him with his suffering. The teacher nodded and said, “Just to hear the teachings of Buddhism can liberate you from all suffering.” Milareapa was excited and apprenticed himself to the Buddhist teacher.
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+There, Milareapa was taught meditation and was given Buddhist texts to study. Milareapa did not work on his meditation practice regularly and often skipped his studies of the Buddhist texts. He believed that since he had heard some of the teachings of Buddhism that he would just somehow be liberated. 
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+After some time, his dreams and visions came back. He again suffered greatly thinking about the terrible thing he had done and the people he had hurt. He asked his Buddhist teacher why his suffering persisted. His teacher admonished him for his poor practice and discipline. Then his teacher suggested that Milareapa should go to study with his own master, Marpa, because only he could help him. Milareapa agreed excitedly and left the next day to seek out Marpa.
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+When Milareapa at last came to Marpa, he found that Marpa was reluctant to take Milareapa as a student. Knowing that he needed Marpa’s teachings in order to be free from suffering, Milareapa pleaded with Marpa to accept him. Marpa consented, saying that he would teach Milareapa if he would build a tower for him. Milareapa gladly accepted his offer.
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+After receiving Marpa’s instructions on building and the specifications on what to build, Milareapa got to work. He spent long hours each day for weeks in his work. He didn’t have much experience in building before this task, but through his desire to impress Marpa so that would give him the teachings of liberation, Milareapa became a competent mason.    
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+When Milareapa’s work was half complete, Marpa came and scowled. Marpa told him that he had built the tower in the wrong place. Marpa told him to dismantle the tower and put the stones back where he found them. 
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+Milareapa was confused by Marpa’s words because he was sure that he had begun construction where he was told to. Brushing off his confusion Milareapa did as he was told without question. 
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+Marpa informed him that the tower would have to be built just East of where he had began the first house. Milareapa dutifully began building the tower in the appointed location. 
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+Again when Milareapa’s work was half complete, Marpa came and frowned. Marpa angrily told Milareapa that he was building in the wrong place.  Marpa told him to dismantle the tower and put the stones back where he found them. 
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+Milareapa assured Marpa that he was building in the exact location that he was told to, but it only made Marpa angrier. Without another word Milareapa dismantled the tower and put the stones back where he found them. He was eager to receive Marpa’s approval and learn the spiritual teachings. 
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+When he was done, Marpa informed him that the tower would have to be built just North of where he had began the first house. Questioning Marpa, Milareapa asked him if he was completely sure he wanted the tower to be in the North. Marpa angrily demanded that Milareapa rebuild the tower in the correct location, and told him that he would not get any spiritual teaching until it was built.
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+Milareapa for a third time began building the tower in the appointed spot. When again Milareapa’s work was half complete, Marpa came and glowered. Marpa harshly told Milareapa that he was building in the wrong place.  Marpa told him to dismantle the tower and put the stones back where he found them. 
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+Milareapa doubted that Marpa would ever teach him. Milareapa was without hope. Some of Marpa’s other students encouraged him to continue telling him that Marpa really would give him the teachings he sought. Their words helped Milareapa go on.
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+After Milareapa dismantle the tower, Marpa informed him that the tower would have to be built in the same location where he had originally started the construction. This time Milareapa had another of Marpa’s other students act as a witness that he was following Marpa’s instruction on where to build. Marpa assured him that this was the proper spot.
+ 
+Devastated, but resolute, Milareapa began to rebuild. He again began to rebuild the tower, working from dawn till dusk. His fingers became calloused and his back ached while he worked. 
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+Several of Marpa’s other students, though very busy with their studies, helped Milareapa by bringing him a large corner stone and lifting it up to the 5th floor. Milareapa was encouraged by their aid though Marpa constantly detracted his progress. 
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+Milareapa pleaded with Marpa again for the teachings, but Marpa rebuked him saying that if Milareapa wanted the spiritual teachings he would have to do his work right. Milareapa was again saddened but went on to complete his job correctly. So Milareapa dutifully reconstructed the misaligned stone.
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+With support from many of the other students, Milareapa pushed on day after day. He worked with precision and efficiency. He had now be come an expert mason. His pace of construction accelerated and the tower was almost done. He was sure in his skill and knew that he was making no mistakes.
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+Again Marpa appeared to view the tower, Marpa inspected it without comment and then said that Milareapa would need to stop the construction of this tower and build him a 12 pillar hall to the West of the tower. 
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+Milareapa was saddened. He felt hopeless. With the support of the other students he went on. As he was building the tower, a sore on his back became so painful that greatly hindered his work. He carried on as best he could, not wanting to approach Marpa with any excuses. 
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+While he was completing the construction of the hall, Marpa decided to perform a Buddhist initiation for several of his students. Milareapa attended the ceremony and got in line for the initiation. Marpa rebuked Milareapa ferociously. Milareapa was so saddened by Marpa’s fury that he jumped out of a second story window in retreat. 
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+Milareapa stayed away, so saddened that he wanted to die. The other students consoled him and pleaded Marpa to help him. They asked Marpa why Milareapa couldn’t receive the spiritual teachings and why he was forced into such hard labor. 
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+Marpa summon Milareapa. His anger seemed completely gone as he smiled. Marpa told them that building the towers was in fact the spiritual teachings. He said that through focused attention and hard work, one can develop the spirit and purify the mind. Marpa explaned that his spiritual anger was for the benefit of Milareapa so that he would do his work properly.
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+He asked Milareapa when the last time he had had his horrific vision, nightmares, and disturbing thoughts about the revenge he had taken on his village. Milareapa realized that he stopped having these thoughts and visions sometime while he was building the second tower. He also found that his sorrowful feelings about how his uncle and aunt had harmed his family were gone. He had released his sorrows about his life and his vengeance. In the realization of his liberation from his great suffering, he thanked Marpa.
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+Milareapa went on to become a great teacher and the lineage holder of Kagyu Buddhism. His teachings of Yoga remain classic truths to seekers of the path to liberation through active, constructive means.            
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+MONKS WORK
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+There’s an old Zen saying, “Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment chop wood and carry water.” This accurately describes the life of a Buddhist monk as being work, enlightened practice, and more work. 
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+We often have ideas that monks just sit around all the time meditating on a mountain top or in a temple, but that is a myth. Buddhist monks work. Most often they don’t work in conventional jobs outside of their monasteries, but they work within their monasteries and for the benefit of their communities. 
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+A monk’s daily work includes tasks that are as physically rigorous as the work of a mover, construction worker, house cleaner, and landscaper. At the same time, a monk’s work includes tasks that are as complex and technical as the work of a computer programmer, mathematician, or engineer. Though there is physical work and mental labors, a monk must also maintain a university student’s pace of learning, and a reverend’s vows of morality.
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+Monks do a lot of meditation, study, and art, but in addition, all monks are given specific roles to play in the day-to-day running and maintenance of the monastery and its surroundings. 
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+Monks are excellent workers and focus on many of the fundamental job skills that westerners do. Monks are detail oriented, work in teams, manage projects, continuously improve their skill sets, expertly instruct and transfer knowledge, refine processes, and improve efficiency. Monks also follow over 220 strict rules of conduct to work efficiently and ethically.
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+In the eighth-century Zen monk named Pai-chang pushed to make Buddhist monasteries self-reliant through the disciplined labor of the monks. He taught monks to work very hard with no intention for selfish gain. The monks farmed and worked arduously cultivating Buddhist detachment so that the deed of providing food and shelter would not detract them from spiritual elevation. This practice of monk labor in Zen monasteries led to the famous saying, "a day of no work is a day of no eating."
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+A monk’s daily routine may look like this:
+4:00 am to 6:00 am – Wake up call, tea, and meditation
+6:00 am to 8:00 am – Begging alms outside of the monastery or farming
+8:00 am – Morning prayers and breakfast 
+8:30 am – Recitation of the ritual texts
+9:00 am to 11:00 am – Teachings on Buddhist philosophy and practices
+11:00 am to 12:00 pm – Elective classes on calligraphy, painting, divination, debate
+12:00 pm to 5:00 pm – Monastery chores including: 
+Complete cleaning of monastery (cleaning class rooms, practice halls, bathrooms, and hallways)
+Full maintenance of monastery (making repairs to the structures and painting)
+Full maintenance of monastery grounds (tending to vegetable garden, raking leaves, and landscaping)
+Running daily errands (fetching water, firewood, and going into town for supplies)
+5:00 pm – Bathe and relax
+6:00 pm to 8:00 pm – Recitation of ritual texts
+8:00 pm to 9:00 pm – Evening meditation
+9:00 pm to 9:30 pm – Homework and self-study
+9:30 pm – Bedtime 
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+Monks also work outside of the monastery. Monks are involved in meaningful interaction with the outside community. Monks work in communities alone and with community organizations. For example, Buddhist monks play a large role in the fight against AIDS in Asia. In China, 2,000 monks work with a university to provide care to AIDS sufferers and to educate the community about AIDS. In Thailand, the Buddhist monks who started The Sangha Metta Project work in HIV and AIDS prevention and care. After thorough training, the monks participate in counseling, youth camps, support groups, distribution of food and medicine, and organizing seminars, workshops and training programs.
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+In 2005, monks of the Damnak temple in Cambodian had established the Life and Hope Association to help poor communities, families, and especially vulnerable children. Working in several villages, their goal is to alleviate poverty for families, especially poor children by supporting them with basic needs such as foods, clothing, school supplies, health services, education, and accommodation in a protective orphanage.
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+In April 2010, after a devastating earthquake in the Yushu Prefecture of China where 2,000 people where killed and 12,000 injured, hundreds of monks from the 200 Buddhist temples in the region mounted rescue efforts before the government was able to act. The monks saved people buried in rubble, administered medical treatment, and gave food and water to survivors. 
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+Monks also do things for the outside world and get something in return for their work. Monks are involved in lay community affairs. They perform funeral ceremonies. They organize Buddhist holiday celebrations. They are involved in the sanctification of new homes and businesses.  They also teach novices and laymen. A monk’s community activity is a transaction between the spiritual group and community; this is where a monk confers spiritual blessing and attention. In gratitude and respect the community may offer food, money, or land.
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+Monks in China have also engaged in commercial activities such as grain milling and oil seed pressing. Monks also made money through the rental of temple lands to farmers in exchange for a percentage of the crop. Part of the crops were consumed and part were reinvested into new assets to produce additional profits.
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+Monks have conducted business with the outside community through contracted loans to be repaid with interest, negotiable securities, mutual fund banking, hedge funds, governing wills, and health insurance. 
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+Just this year, the famous Shaolin Temple began publicly trading shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The temple's abbot, Shi Yongxin plans to raise 146 million dollars to make temple repairs, and bolster the Shaolin brand through ticket sales, a cable car ride, cinemas, hotels and tourist bus services in Dengfeng where the temple is based. 
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+Shi Yongxin, also known as the ‘CEO monk’ engages in business projects like Internet sales and marketing, kung-fu shows, and even serving as executive producer on martial arts films. Shi Yongxin who drives a luxury car and wears expensive robes is the abbot of one of the most authentic and famous Buddhist temples and shows by his own example that monks work. 
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+Money is Good
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+On one occasion, Anathapindika, a disciple of Buddha’s asked his teacher, “Of your teachings of the deeds that return good merit, what is the first deed I should do to gain the best merit?”
+Buddha answered, “Of all things a person could gain from good merit, the first is wealth acquired by good work.”
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+Job Yogis aim to do good work that will create great wealth. Job Yogis choose career paths that give them the best opportunities to make large sums of money.  Through the disciplines of yoga, they perfect their work and gain large sums of money. 
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+The Buddha’s Eight Fold Path leads yogis to excellence in being. Just as right meditation brings sublime bliss, right livelihood brings sublime wealth. Because of the teachings of right livelihood, Buddhism was especially popular among the merchant class. 
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+Money is necessary for you to live a healthy, happy life. Money is necessary for your spiritual practice. Money is necessary, and that’s the bottom line. Money provides you with options and greater opportunities for life and happiness. Money buys you space. It enables you to buy the things necessary to support your life and spiritual practice. 
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+Money is power. It is a power that you can use to add to your enlightenment. You can also use it to help others. Don’t be afraid of money. Get the money that you need. Make as much money as you can so that you have as many options as possible.
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+Buddha never expressed disapproval of wealth itself, rather he denounced ignorant ways that people wielded and sought wealth. Buddha also never encouraged poverty. Rather, he simply affirmed that happiness was not dependant on wealth. Buddha saw obstructions in both extremes of poverty and wealth. To live in poverty is to live out of balance, with a feeling of not having enough food, clothing, or housing to sustain your body and practice. To live in luxury, is to feel stuffed and bloated, as if we've overeaten. Buddha taught what he called ‘the middle way’ the path to happiness, liberation, and enlightenment that was neither desirous nor averse to anything including wealth and poverty.  
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+Buddha taught proper habits and practices in work that lead to wealth. Buddha encouraged wealth and taught how you can enjoy wealth without being corrupted by it. Buddha said, "Riches destroy the ignorant, yet not those who seek the further shore." 
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+Citta, an advanced disciple of the Buddha was a wealthy businessman. Though Citta had lands, businesses, political influence, and riches, the Buddha praised him as an ideal disciple.
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+Buddha taught that wealth should be acquired through honest work. He recommended that his followers not work in jobs dealing with slavery, weapons, poisons, or drugs, but taught that whatever job you do, you should have the intention to do it for that which enables life, liberty, and enlightenment.
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+In one of his sutras, Buddha lists four kinds of bliss to be won through work. He said that they were the bliss of ownership, the bliss of wealth, the bliss of doubtlessness, and the bliss of blamelessness.
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+The rich surround themselves with objects and experiences that reflect beauty, sophistication, and achievement. The rich live in beautiful homes that are expansive to the mind. They wear clothes that are refined and pleasing to behold. They drive luxury cars that make daily transport more comfortable. They eat at fine restaurants with exceptional cuisine. The rich engage in cultured interests with others who share their acumen. They vacation in the most beautiful places in the world.
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+This level of refinement enables them to live in refined states of mind. These states are higher than that of someone who is stressed out and struggling to keep up with their bills. These refined states of mind are conducive to spiritual practice. 
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+In Buddhism we consider that it is very important to live in a nice home. We choose a location that we feel is conducive to spiritual study and work. We try to live in beautiful places with nature and water near by. 
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+In Job Yoga we take care to live in the most beautiful places that we can while being within commuting distance to a strong job market. It is essential to live near a city or suburb that has many jobs for the occupation that you seek. A location with a thriving job market also has powerful energies that propel spiritual practice. 
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+Job yogis can thrive living in New York City as easily as they can thrive living in the mountains above Silicon Valley. Both metropolitan and wooded suburb locations have energies that enable Job yogis to gain high states of awareness. 
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+High states of awareness yield material success. Buddhist monks love money! Buddhist monasteries in China, Japan, and Thailand are as large and beautiful as the king’s palaces! Buddhist robes are of the finest silks. Buddhists live a life of refinement equal to the very rich, yet because they lack selfish intention, they enjoy a deeper spiritual quality of life.
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+THE SPIRITUAL PATH CHANGES 
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+Many people cling to conceptual closed-minded views of Asian spirituality. Over the years they have become habituated in concepts. They fill their minds with concepts and overlook the truth. 
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+The great traditions of enlightenment would render no enlightenment at all if you approach them with the conceptual mind. What people may think is enlightened practice may not bring enlightenment at all. Often, our own concepts of enlightened practice obscure the truth. 
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+If a spiritual master tells you, “sit in meditation and you will experience Nirvana,” you are already set with a concept and expectation. This alone may prevent you from experiencing Nirvana. Yet at the same time it is actually true that if you sit in meditation you will experience Nirvana.
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+Habits, traditions, stories, and concepts will block you from seeing the truth. That is why it is necessary to observe that the spiritual path changes. Times change, conditions change, what works and what is appropriate change. You find enlightenment where minds are open. 
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+Bodhidharma was an early fifth century Buddhist master who changed the outward form of Buddhist practice and Karma Yoga to adapt to the conditions of the times.  He founded Zen Buddhism in China and taught the Shaolin monks a form of Karma Yoga based on Kung Fu. 
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+Bodhidharma was a renowned Buddhist master from South India. He was invited to become the first patriarch of Buddhism in China by Emperor Wu of South China. Emperor Wu was a fervent supporter of Buddhism. Bodhidharma journeyed for three years to reach China. When he arrived and met with Emperor Wu, the emperor asked him three questions. 
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+He asked, "What is the meaning of noble truth?" 
+Bodhidharma answered, "Noble truth has no meaning." 
+The emperor then asked Bodhidharma, "Who are you?" 
+Bodhidharma answered, "No one." 
+The emperor then asked Bodhidharma, "How much karmic merit have I earned by ordaining Buddhist monks, building monasteries, translating sutras, and commissioning Buddha images?" 
+Bodhidharma answered, "None.”
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+The emperor thought Bodhidharma to be either an imbecile or a fraud. The emperor rescinded his offer. Although Bodhidharma came all the way from India to China to become the first patriarch of Buddhism in China, the emperor refused to recognize him. 
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+Bodhidharma left the presence of the Emperor once he saw that the Emperor was unable to understand his teachings. Then Bodhidharma went North, across the river to the kingdom of Wei. There he went into retreat in a cave near the Shaolin Monastery. Bodhidharma meditated, facing a wall for nine years. He did not speak for the entire time. 
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+The monks from the Shaolin Temple brought Bodhidharma food and water. It is said that from time to time wild animals would try to steal Bodhidharma’s food or even try to eat him. He would break from his meditation and fend off the wild animals. In fighting the animals away, he observed how they fought and developed special attacks and defenses for each animal. Over the years he became skilled in the animal fighting forms.
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+Later, Bodhidharma retired to the Shaolin Temple. When he arrived the monks were unhealthy, weak, and hungry. Bandits would attack the temple and steal all their food. They were unable to keep the marauders out and suffered greatly because of the robberies.   
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+Bodhidharma began to teach the monks a new Yoga called Kung Fu. He instructed the monks in a series of exercises that went on to form the basis of Shaolin Kung Fu. These exercises are recorded as martial arts techniques and forms from Bodhidharma’s homeland as well as the animal fighting forms. 
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+Bodhidharma taught that spiritual, intellectual, and physical excellence were all necessary for enlightenment. He taught Zen Buddhism for spiritual and intellectual development and Kung Fu for the development of the body.  
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+In the beginning, other Buddhists who were contemporaries of Bodhidharma thought his teachings were outlandish. They judged that teaching monks to fight was completely inconsistent with the Buddhist traditions. They believed that Bodhidharma had abandoned Buddha’s teachings.  
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+Years later, Bodhidharma’s contemporaries came to hold Bodhidharma and his teachings in the highest admiration. They saw that the Shaolin monks were able to fend off bandits while other monasteries were destroyed. They observed that Bodhidharma was addressing the conditions of the times with pragmatic practices that were founded in the Buddha’s teachings. They saw that the Shaolin monks benefited and thrived from both their yogic practices and spiritual disciplines. They came to understand that Bodhidharma was a spiritual visionary who had directed the evolution of Buddhism through his teachings.
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+BECOMING A YOGI
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+You can become a yogi! A yogi is a man or woman who is proficient in Yoga. A yogi is not a beginner or apprentice. A yogi is a professional spiritualist. Yogis have flourished in the great traditions of spirituality in Asia, but in recent times yogis have been emerging in the West. You can learn the principles of Job Yoga and incorporate them in your current job now. By practicing Job Yoga in your daily work, you can become a yogi. 
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+In the past, seekers of liberation in the great traditions of spirituality, Buddhist monks, vedic swamis, and yogis would seek liberation in the woods, mountains, desserts, and by the sea. They would retreat from society and seek enlightenment in nature. 
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+The reason these seekers would retreat from society is because they didn’t want to have to deal with the difficulties of the world of man. The world, over all, is a dark place. There are wars and wars alarms, controlling systems of riches and poverty, inequality, ethnic strife, religious struggles, and a myriad of limiting societal conditions.
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+Seekers of antiquity would join remote monasteries, secret orders, and hidden ashrams to have a place to learn the internal arts, free from the dramas and darkness of the outside world. Tall monastery walls were built to keep outsiders away, not to keep the monks in. Monks and yogis are not prisoners.  Inaccessible masters and austere orders were so elusive because they did not want to be found. Spiritual groups wanted to be hidden so that they had enough space to pursue spiritual practice. Far from the bustling crowds, seekers could more easily learn the arts of Yoga.
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+Yet for Westerners, engaging in these forms of spiritual practice often produces poor results. Many of the Asian forms of spirituality are mired in their cultural history and conditioning. Westerners learning Asian spiritual practices are often unable to differentiate between what is spiritual and what is cultural.  
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+For example, if you were to learn Chinese so that you could understand the Chinese Buddhist scriptures, the extraneous cultural material within the language itself would obscure the spiritual meaning of the teachings. It would be difficult for you to discern the truths from the social context embedded within the language.  The language and culture you learn in greatly affects your understanding. When you learn in your native language there is a more direct and clear understanding. 
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+Job yoga is the yoga for our time and our society.  Living and working in the world is the pathway to enlightenment that works best for Westerners. We have a cultural understanding of work that is congruent with the teachings of Karma Yoga.  In the West there is a powerful spirit of work, energy, and power that makes Job Yoga the ideal spiritual path for Westerners.
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+Job yoga is practical. Most of us need a job to live, survive, and thrive. You will spend 8 to 12 hours per day working. The greatest amount of your energy and attention will be put into your work. Using work as a means for spiritual and material success makes a lot of sense.   
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+Ramakrishna, an enlightened yogi who lived in India in the 1800s said, “Work is necessary for all who seek enlightenment.” No matter where you go in the world or what you do, you will always be working. 
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+As long as you live, you work. You either do it poorly and suffer or do it masterfully and reap the benefits.   Western spiritual seekers who work poorly are usually spaced out, dissociated, and out of touch with reality. Work gives you focus so that you can succeed in the spiritual path. You can resist the spaced-out slacker mentality, and bohemian lethargy by working. 
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+When you engage in yoga you have greater experiences of light. Your meditation is stronger. You have experiences where the light of yoga comes into your awareness. It may happen while working, or in a business meeting, or while you are walking down the street. At various times the enlightened dimensions open and you have insight and awareness into dimensions of luminosity. You have spiritual experiences. That is why we engage in this yoga, because it makes you spiritually stronger. Yoga makes you more free and more enlightened in every way. Engaging in yoga is smart and practical. It advances you in both your physical life and your spiritual life. 
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+Enlightenment takes fulltime work. If you make your work the pathway to enlightened success then you make your work equal to that of a monk in an ashram and you will have both enlightenment and success.
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+JOB YOGA IN THE WEST
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+In the Far East, the great majority of practicing Buddhists are monks. A monk’s work is Right Livelihood. In the West, since most practicing Buddhists do not live a monastic life, the consideration of Right Livelihood requires greater attention. A monastic life is not the only way to achieve Right Livelihood. Job Yoga teaches that it’s more important how you do your work rather than what your work is. A monastic life is Right Livelihood because the observations of Job Yoga are inherent practices in the monastery. The job you have now can be transformed into Right Livelihood by practicing Job Yoga. When you practice Job Yoga your work is Right Livelihood.
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+Many principles of Job Yoga already exist in the West. Many industry leaders have succeeded by following the universal truths and observances Krishna and Buddha taught about. It may have taken them years to learn from the experiences of their work, but founding captains of industry such as: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, as well as modern businessmen like Steve Jobs and Warren Buffet have done many aspects of Job Yoga as key steps toward their great successes. 
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+Nurse, non-profit.
+Compare Krishna to JDRockf
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+John D. Rockefeller, the founder of the Standard Oil Company and the world’s first billionaire stated his inner beliefs about work and life this way:
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+“Not long since I sought to formulate in my own mind the things that make life most worth living, without which it would have little meaning. Some of these things have been relegated to bygone days; some are regarded as long since outgrown. Nevertheless I believe they are every one of them fundamental and eternal… They point the way to usefulness and happiness in life, to courage and peace in death... Let me state them:
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+I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand.
+I believe that the rendering of useful service is the common duty of mankind and that only in the purifying fire of sacrifice is the dross of selfishness consumed and the greatness of the human soul set free.
+I believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual’s highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will.
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+These are the principles, however formulated, for which all good men and women throughout the world, irrespective of race or creed, education, social position or occupation are standing...”
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+The Anguttara Nikaya is a record of one of buddha’s teachings called, "The Two-Eyed." In it, the Buddha says that there are three types of people, the blind, the one-eyed, the two-eyed. A blind person does not have the eye to acquire wealth or to make the wealth he has increase. He does not have the eye to distinguish "states that are good and bad, to see states that are blameworthy and praiseworthy, states mean and exalted, states resembling light and darkness." This person cannot cultivate wealth, and does not bother to cultivate wisdom and virtues like charity.
+A one-eyed person has the eye to acquire wealth but not the eye to see states that are good and bad; cultivating wealth but not wisdom or virtue. A two-eyed person has both the eye to acquire wealth unattained and the eye to make the wealth he has increase, and the eye to see the importance of spiritual practice. The sutra in summary:
+The blind, of sight bereft, hath no such wealth,
+Nor works good deeds, unlucky in both ways.
+And then again 'tis said the one-eyed man,
+Conjoined with right and wrong, searches for wealth
+With tricks and fraud and lies: worldly, purse-proud,
+And clever to gain wealth is he, and hence
+Departing is afflicted sore in Hell.
+But best of all's the being with two eyes:
+His wealth, with right exertion rightly won,
+He gives away: with best intent, unwavering,
+In a blessed home he's born, nor sorrows there.
+So from the blind and one-eyed keep aloof,
+And join thyself to the worthy two-eyed man.
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+PART 3: JOB YOGA FUNDAMENTALS
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+PUTTING JOB YOGA TO WORK
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+Now that you have had an orientation of Yoga and the pragmatism of enlightened practice for Westerners, you are ready to learn to apply Job Yoga to your work. Now that you have learned from the biographies of renowned ancient Yogis, you are ready to put their insights and perspective into use in your own life. Now that you have gained an understanding of the origins and principles of Yoga, you are prepared to learn how to do the actual steps of Job Yoga. 
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+In this section, you’ll learn about the three roles of Job Yogis. You’ll learn the guiding principles of impeccability and integrity. You’ll learn how to begin practicing the essential disciplines involved in Job Yoga. You’ll learn how to foster the Job Yogis spiritual outlook and career success-oriented disposition. You’ll learn the considerations of detachment and how to rise above your fears. You’ll learn the Job Yogis secrets for overcoming all challenges and excelling in work in the fast paced modern working world. Finally you’ll learn the greatest secret of how to excel in your career and the pathway to enlightenment.
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+Remember Le Ann, our friend from the first section who was frustrated and unsatisfied with her career? We will continue with her story again. The following chapters describe Job Yoga practices and principals. At the end of each chapter we’ll see the story of how Le Ann put these lessons to use in her job to succeed.
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+You are ready to put Job Yoga to work too! As you read the chapters in this section, put them to work in your life. As you practice Job Yoga, you become a more and more successful Yogi. Each lesson teaches you how to engage in spirituality and career with mastery. 
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+MEDITATION
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+The most powerful aid to your Job Yoga and career success is meditation. Meditation is a practice of concentration and focus. It is a daily practice where you cultivate inner peace and personal power through mental reflection.  It is a discipline of honing your mind so that you are more capable of seeing life and all its opportunities clearly. Meditation gives you clarity and a strong mind. 
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+When your mind is clear, you are not confused or bewildered by the myriad of things, people, and events in your pathway to success. A clear mind enables you to see and know exactly where to focus your time and energy. When your mind is strong, you are able to complete your tasks effectively. A strong mind is capable of pushing beyond all barriers to success. When you know what to do to succeed and have the mental strength to do it, you will succeed in all endeavors.
+The day before winning the final game of the 2010 championships the Los Angeles Lakers assembled in the film room at their practice facility in El Segundo, turned off the lights, and meditated. Meditation had become part of their routine training since 2004 when Phil Jackson, who had great success with meditation in coaching the Chicago Bull, joined them as head coach.
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Meditation practice had become a great aid to success for many of the players. Derek Fisher, Pau Gasol, and Lamar Odom spoke often of the benefits they saw in their playing fomr meditation. Lamar Odom  said that he re-creates aspects of meditation in his mind as he walks to the free throw line. Michael Jordan, though initial put off by meditation, later said, "'Living in the moment' is something that I will continue to always understand and associate with my life.” Kobe Bryant said, "It sounds like a minor thing, but it's very big when you're playing at this level to really be aware of everything around you.”
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+"Just quiet meditation," explains Jim Cleamons, "in order for them to understand the business at hand for that evening. If we're going through some turbulent times, to help us get focused." 
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"I took coaching theory classes at college," says Jim Cleamons. "Those athletes who don't tense up in the most stressful times, they flow freely. Basketball is all about skills. Being able to move quickly. Shooting is all about visualization and focusing on the rim. Ball-handling is about being able to pick the ball up. Defensively, you've got to concentrate on team sets, and see things in advance. It all comes down to a presence of mind and a clarity ... the mind being comfortable plays a great role in your success."
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+“The purpose is to give yourself an opportunity to get your best performance. It's not about winning. There's a difference. You want your best performance. You want your teammates' best performance. And if you provide your best performance chances are you will win. But in order to have your best performance, you have to be relaxed."
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"He teaches calm," says Chuck Person, of his boss Phil Jackson who taught the Lakers a form of breath-focus meditation. "He teaches you how to find your way in the maze, in the chaos. You can always go back and find yourself with that breath. I've learned during anxious moments, since I have been here with the Lakers, that that breath is very important to take to center yourself. Players do it. They get together, take a breath, collect their thoughts, so they can perform. ... We're going to take our breath and we're going to have one mind, one collective breath, and we're going to go out there and do it together. Phil teaches that, and he's great to learn from."
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"Before the lights are turned off," says Chuck Person of the meditation sessions before the games, "there are a thousand things going through your mind. A thousand thoughts, personal, basketball-wise, or anything else. You start to focus on that breath, everything goes away. You're in complete darkness. It's just you and that breath. And when the lights come on you feel relaxed, you feel rejuvenated, and you have a rejuvenation period that carries forward onto the court."
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+To meditate in this form of Job Yoga, we focus on points in the body called chakras. Chakras are spiritual energy centers in the body. Chakras can be stimulated to cause expansion of awareness and spiritual elevation of consciousness. 
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+Chakras are like doors. You can open a door to get access to something or to go somewhere. Chakras are doorways to dimensions of spiritual power, love, and knowledge. 
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+Yoga practitioners have used these inner doorways for spiritual advancement for thousands of years. They have learned that when you unlock them with the key of a focused mind, the outcome is not a physical location, but heightened awareness and illumination at a deeply spiritual dimension of your being. Chakras are doors that lead to spiritual states of mind.
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+We practice meditation by sequentially focusing on three chakras.  Meditating on these three chakras gives us the greatest benefit.   We focus on each chakra in sequence.
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+The first chakra that we focus on is the navel chakra.  The navel center is located about two to three inches below the belly button.  The navel center is the chakra of spiritual power.  When you still your mind, calm your thoughts, and focus on the navel center, a spiritual dimension of your own being is unlocked.  A doorway opens and a bright and comforting light fills you.  It is the light of power  the power to overcome the difficulties and hardships of life, the power to evolve, the power to be happy.  As we meditate upon the navel chakra we cultivate, absorb, and store this spiritual power.
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+The second chakra that we meditate on is the heart chakra.  The heart chakra is located directly in the center of the chest.  Point to yourself and say ‘me.’ That's usually the perfect spot.  The heart chakra is the center of love in your being.  When you stop thought completely while focused on the heart, you are immersed in love.  You experience love directly, unbound from a person, place, or thing.  You experience and become love itself.  It is in the direct and unobscured experience of love that your heart and compassion grow.  As we meditate upon the heart chakra, we become filled with love for ourselves and all things.
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+The third chakra that we meditate on is the third eye.  The third eye is located between the eyebrows and slightly above.  It is the chakra of wisdom, seeing, and dreaming.  When you still the mind and silence thoughts while focusing single-mindedly on the third eye, you unlock your inherent wisdom.  You are filled with a wise, ancient and intelligent light.  In this light, you come to know the truths and secrets of life.  In this light, you can see and discriminate between what is true and what is false.  In this light your spirit is awakened.  As we meditate upon the third eye, we come to see what is right for us, what is true.
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+To really learn meditation you must practice twice a day.  Consistent earnest effort is required to learn this most noble discipline.  It is better to meditate for a short time with your best effort than for a long time with a mediocre effort.  In the beginning your meditation sessions may only be 5 to 15 minutes long.  As you practice and strengthen your mind to become better at concentration and focus, you will naturally enjoy increasing your meditation session to about the period of one hour.
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+It is beneficial to practice in the morning.  Just as you rise from bed your mind is still.  Take a shower, have some coffee or tea if you have to, and then meditate.  It is also beneficial to practice in the evening.  The time of the sunset is nice, or perhaps right before you go to bed.  It is important that you do not eat a lot before meditating.  When your stomach is full, your body uses a lot of its energy to digest food.  Rather, you should wait until you have digested your food before you meditate.  That way you won't feel tired and you will have all of your body's energy at your disposal.
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+During meditation it is important to sit up perfectly straight.  It doesn't matter what position your legs are in.  Sit in a way that is comfortable for you.  It is fine to sit in a chair.  It also does not matter what position your hands are in.  You may just want to rest them on your lap.  Sit up straight as if there were a string attached to the very top center of your head pulling you up.
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+Bow after completing each meditation session.  This is a gesture of humility where we thank the universe for our life and many opportunities.  
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+If you have difficulty focusing on any of the chakras touch the chakra lightly with your index finger.  This will give you a stronger sense of where to bring your attention.  After some time in practice, the area of the chakra will become distinct.  You'll feel energy pulsing in the chakras as they are stimulated by your concentration.
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+If thoughts arise as you focus on the chakra, simply let go of the thoughts and bring your attention back to the chakra.  The practice is to, again and again, bring your focus back to the chakra.
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+SANGHA INC.
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+How do you deal with a long commute, a grumpy boss, aggravated co-workers, being overworked and underappreciated, demanding quotas, impossible deadlines, and miserable working environments? How do you win new business, get a promotion, get a better job, or make a jump in sales? In Job Yoga we team-up. Alone you can only take so much. Alone you can only do so much. In Job Yoga the self-taught are heavy, slow, ponderous and limited. In a team you are more effective. In a team you are part of a greater force. 
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+Buddha taught that we should associate with people who are skillful in making money and skillful in using money for good. Such people are the best mentors for a person's career and spiritual practice. Buddha said that you become wealthy when you work with good company. Working with good company means that you work with virtuous people. He taught that you should work with people of good faith, who are selfless and filled with wisdom. He taught that you should do what these people do in their work. Consciously emulate their virtuous behavior, until it becomes second nature to you. 
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+For Job Yogis, such a group is a Sangha. Sangha is the Buddhist term for a Yoga team. Sangha is a Sanskrit word literally meaning ‘company’. A Sangha is a spiritual school, lineage, or goal oriented group. It is an organic fellowship consisting of yourself and others of like mind. 
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+A Sangha keeps its members inspired. When trying to establish your career, get a promotion, or start a new business, it is immeasurably helpful to have others around you that have the same goals. Their determination, experiences, and insights help keep you motivated and focused. When a Sangha member succeeds in attaining a goal, it shows you that you can do it too. 
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+ A Sangha keeps its members balanced. Often, when we wish to attain a new goal in business or career that we have not reached yet, we may not know the best ways to achieve our goals. Sometimes we come up with ideas and approaches that are unlikely to work or are foolhardy. When you work with Sangha to achieve your goals, the counsel and demonstrated success of others curbs you from putting energy into efforts that would not work. 
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+Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, one of the most innovative companies in the world, spoke about the innovation strategy he devised for Apple. His key point of success being team-work. Jobs said, “My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys that kept each other’s negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person; they are done by a team of people.”
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+In Buddhism it is said that there are three jewels of spiritual wealth: the Buddha, the Dharma (or Buddhist teachings), and the Sangha. Abundant spiritual blessings are said to come from each of these jewels. 
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+Each Sangha member is a part of the third jewel of Buddhism. We see that each Sangha member is like a precious jewel. Working with others in the Sangha is the way to let the beauty and value within yourself and others shine. 
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+In a Sangha, members develop good etiquette toward each other, working positively and constructively with the others in the spiritual company. A spirit of working positively together is very important. Ill will, negativity, and doubt cast darkness over the light of a spiritual union. So we learn to be positive and harmless with others in our spiritual company.
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+We learn to see that working through the hardships of our lives with our Sangha is a way that we become brighter and more effective at reaching our goals. In a spiritual company weather or not you are working with each other on a daily basis as your principal job, you are a focus and support group toward the aim of your yogic success. We always judge our spiritual progress by how we treat the others in our Sangha outwardly and inwardly.
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+Sangha members are like jewels that come together in a bag. The bag is carried around through all of our work functions. As Sangha members do their work together, they perfect themselves. Some jewels have sharp or rough edges. Some jewels have ingrained dirt obscuring their beauty. When they interact, the sharp and rough edges are smoothed, and the ingrained dirt is polished away.  All of the jewels become smooth and beautiful from their interaction. 
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+Armed with an alliance of like-minded Job Yogis who are dedicated to the perfection of their Yoga, you gain an inner strength to be able to face the world and achieve results that bring you far beyond what you ever could have done by yourself.
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+Working together is an important part of spiritual practice. The Sangha is a very powerful instrument. The Sangha is a precious jewel. It is a refuge from suffering the spiritual deadness of the working world. It is a shield from the defiling attention of others and the disempowering structures of daily life.
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+A Sangha keeps its members balanced, inspired, and successful because it is an organization that develops spiritual well being as well as professional success. When you work with your sangha, there is a power in your unity that fortifies you against the heavy and destructive influences of the working world. This team of spiritual brothers and sisters is a powerful structure that helps you progress faster and more successfully toward greater and greater Yogic goals.   
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+YOGI TYPES
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+Job Yogis are categorized into three roles: Sales Yogis, Business Administration Yogis, and Product or Service Yogis. These are the primary roles of any company. All companies utilize these fundamental roles in order to do business. All employees within an organization fall into one or more of these categories. Each of these Sangha roles incorporates all the teachings and principles of Job Yoga but also have additional spiritual attributes, considerations, and focuses.    
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+The first role consideration in Job Yoga is the role of the Sales Yogi. Sales Yogis perform sales efforts as their work. Sales is the navel chakra of a company. The sales process occurs when products and services are acquired by customers. Sales are where the tires of your corporate vehicle meet the road. It is the money from sales that supports engineering, research and development, production, business administration, and all departments and people in the corporation.
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+Sales duties include: customer research, cold calls, product and service demonstrations, trade shows, marketing, and customer relationship management. Sales is so important to the company that is common for sales representatives to have unlimited earning potential. Through the use of commissions sales representatives are encouraged to make more by selling more. For sales representatives, the sky is the limit!
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+Sales are power. Sales Yogis have the power of darshan and transformation. A Sales Yogi uses these powers to help customers with their problems or needs by selling them products and services. 
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+Darshan means: meeting with truth. Darshan is often used to describe a meeting with an enlightened person, teaching, or truth. Sales Yogis consider their sales calls to be darshan; a meeting of a customer and an enlightening product. 
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+Sales Yogis work for reputable organizations and sell sound products and services. Sales Yogis believe in what they sell. They see what they sell as solutions to their customer’s problems. Aligned with this view, sales Yogis meet customers and show them the truth of their products and services and how they will help them.  
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+There’s an old story of apples and oranges in Tibet. A businessman who owned an Indian air cargo company had some extra room in his planes, so he decided to ship some apples and oranges to sell to merchants. At this point in time apples and oranges were not available in any Tibetan market, but were well known because of a great influx of travelers. 
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+When the businessman offered these strange fruits to the local markets, the market owners were skeptical that their customers would like the taste of such alien food products. The businessman loved apples and oranges and felt that the Tibetans would love them as much as he did if only they had the chance. 
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+Even though the businessman offered the merchants the best prices possible, he was turned down in his first three meetings. On his fourth meeting, the merchant said, that he had no intention of selling the fruit in his market, but that he had never tasted apples and oranges and the he’d buy one of each just to try them. The businessman sliced and pealed a complementary apple and orange for the merchant. Upon tasting the fruit the merchant was surprised and overjoyed. He ordered half of the seller’s inventory. 
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+The businessman then when back to the previous three merchants. Without a word he offered them slices of the apples and oranges. Their doubts vanished and they were filled with delight. They ordered the rest of his inventory and made orders from more on his next trip. 
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+The businessman was successful when the merchants tasted the apples and oranges for themselves. In the experiencing the taste of the fruit they met  a valuable product for their businesses. 
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+Sales Yogis facilitate the power of transformation. They transform confusion into certainty. They transform doubt into belief. They transform problems into solutions. Sales is a process of transforming a customer’s awareness from a place of needing to a condition of satisfying. 
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+Sales Yogis help customers to identify their needs and clearly understand their problems. They demonstrate how they can help their customer overcome obstacles to success with their products and services. They prove to customers that what they sell will solve their problems and meet their needs. 
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+On his next trip to Tibet, the businessman stocked his plane full of apples and oranges. When he met with the merchants, they were sold out of apples, but no one had bought any oranges. The merchants planned to take a loss on the oranges and double their orders of apples. The businessman assured them that they wouldn’t lose money on the oranges.
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+The businessman went about trying to determine what was going on. He was baffled. Why did the customers love the apples but hate the oranges? He observed the customers at one of the markets. A woman curiously approached the apples. She picked up one apple, smelled it, squeezed it, and then pinched and licked her fingers. After tasting her fingers, she smiled and put several apples into her basket. She then approached the oranges. In the same way she picked one up, smelled it, squeezed it, and then pinched it. This time after tasting her fingers, she grimaced and set the orange down.  
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+The businessman now knew how to solve the merchant’s problems with orange sales. The businessman peeled open half of an orange at each market. Customers smelled, squeezed, and then pinched the peeled part. With smiles after tasting their fingers, they began buying the oranges. Before the day was half over the merchants knew that the needed to buy their original orders of oranges so that they would have enough inventory to last the week.
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+The businessman transformed a losing product line into a great success by seeing that the customers were tasting the peel and not the fruit. When he peeled the orange to show the customers what to sample, then sales were plentiful. 
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+The second role consideration in Job Yoga is the role of the business administration Yogi. Business administration Yogis run companies. They operate and manage all corporate functions so that the business can function. Business administration is the heart chakra of a company. Business administration is the heart of a company. It enables the central function of a corporation: to do business. All the other endeavors of a company would fail without successful business administration.
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+Business administration includes accounting and finance, facilities management, staff management, document management, secretarial work, and organizational administration. The top roles in any company are business administration positions including: CFO, COO, and CEO. 
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+Business administration Yogis are impeccable in their work. Their perfect work is vital to the organization simply being able to operate. Without perfect business administration, companies would be stifled in all other areas. If there are mistakes in administration, it costs time and money for the whole organization.
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+Balance is key for business administration Yogis. Business administration Yogis touch every aspect of the organization. They must take into account the distinct processes, personnel, and resources of each department while maintaining the balancing act of keeping the whole organization steady. 
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+Business administration Yogis must do their work with the greatest efficiency and the smallest margin of error. They must be focused on the most minute details and are involved in solving all the companies major problems.
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+In order to keep all aspects of an organization in a functional equilibrium, business administration Yogis are continuous multi-taskers. Though they engage in detailed financial work, problems solving, meetings, and arduous file management, they must simultaneously process, deliberate on, and plan for all their tasks at the same time. 
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+Business administration Yogis have an uncanny business intuition and an impeccable attention to detail. They must combine these qualities effectively in order to succeed in their work. Business administration Yogis must use their skills horizontally across an organization to effect and enable all levels of work.
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+Business administration Yogis have the power of business intuition. They have an inner sense of how to proceed in business.  This sense of operations directs the actions of the whole organization. They are able to see what will work and what will create problems. They design systems of administration and management to facilitate an efficient and effective course of action. 
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+The Buddha himself was a master business administration Yogi. He was born into the executive level of the warrior cast and was brought up understanding organizational management and administration. His father was a king who administered local government and primed his son to be his successor. 
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+The Buddha managed a monastic order of thousands of dedicated practitioners. He planned systems for food acquisition, clothing, lodging, and medical care. In a time of extremely low literacy levels, he had the vision to create a system for spreading his most valuable product: his teachings. His system was a kind of sing-along Buddhism by the numbers. He taught his students to memorize his lyrical teachings in a numerical order. For example, he taught the The Book of Threes and The Book of Fours. In The Book of Threes all the teachings came in sets of three. In The Book of Fours all of the teachings came in sets of fours.
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+A simple example of the Buddha’s numerical teaching style can be seen in two of the fundamental Buddhist teachings: The Four Noble Truths and the Five Precepts. 
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+The Four Nobel Truths are:
+Life is suffering
+There is a cause of suffering
+There is an end of suffering
+The Eight-Fold Path is the way to end suffering
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+The Five Precepts are:
+No killing
+No stealing
+No lying
+No sexual misconduct
+No drug abuse.
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+Often, these teachings would be lyrical or have accompanying poems. Through memorization of numbers and poems, Buddhism flourished and went on to thrive with millions of followers to this day, over 2,500 years later. 
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+The third role consideration in Job Yoga is the role of the Product Yogi. Product Yogis create the products and perform the services that the company offers to its customers. Product Yoga is the third eye aspect of a company.  Product Yoga is the design, development, and implementation of the products and services a company provides to its customers. Product Yoga includes product design, engineering, construction, and logistics.  It also includes services, consulting, auditing, and training.  
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+Product Yogis develop insight, an ethic of service, and more than anything a cultivation of wisdom. Product Yogis use their yogic attributes to develop and provide goods and services to their customers and societies to better their lives and improve the world.
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+Product Yogis are wisdom-driven. They develop skills so that they can be useful in creating products or providing services to others. They practice their skills and expand their knowledge in their work. Through their skills and knowledge, they develop evermore-useful products and learn more in the process. 
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+Product Yogis have the ability of insight. They are able to see what products and services their customer will need and how they can deliver them. They are able to understand their customer’s needs and see what new possibilities are available with their knowledge. Product Yogis are capable of designing specific systems and services for the future.    
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+Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple computers was a shining example of a product Yogi. He excelled in seeing what products customers would want. Here of are some of his quotes that show his ability to see:
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+“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new”
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“People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
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+"Our job is to figure out what they’re going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, 'If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, "A faster horse!"' People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page."
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+“It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do.” 
+
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.” 
+
“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.” 
+
+“Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.” 
+
+Product Yogis have an ethic of service. They understand that their work, at any level of a company is work that serves society. They focus on creating products and services that aid their customers and the world at large. This intention of service enables them to bring a deeper dimension of value to their customers. Product Yogis see all of their actions as contributing to this service. Whether a Product Yogi is flipping burgers, mopping floors, or designing new technologies, they hold an awareness of their service to the world.
+
+In Japan in the year 587, Kongo Gumi founded the longest running family company in the world.  After being commissioned by prince Shotoku to build Buddhist temple Shitenno-ji, Gumi had found his market niche. Gumi saw that Buddhism was a wave of principled spirituality that would lead the hearts of the nation. Gumi wished to serve Japan and it’s people by helping Buddhism to thrive. 
+
+To support his country’s religious aspirants, Gumi honed his skills in temple construction. After refining his skills in architecture and temple construction techniques, Gumi studied contemporary Japanese design and Korean and Chinese temple design to create a unique identity for Japanese Buddhist temples. Through faith in this purpose and arduous work, Kongo Gumi Co. became the pre-eminent Buddhist temple builder in Japan for over 1,400 centuries.   
+
+PERSONAL POWER
+
+What makes one person more successful than another in a career? Why is it that one of two people with a similar background, experience level, and education will achieve an executive level career position while another will remain a middle manager? Why will one out of millions of deprived youths soar to become the CEO of a fortune 500 company? What would enable an elementary school dropout to invent the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the incandescent light bulb, and found General Electric? 
+
+Personal power is the answer. Your level of personal power determines your success in life. With a high degree of personal power you can overcome challenges to success that would block others. Personal power enables you to see and take advantage of opportunities that others are unaware of. Personal power enables you to push through every obstacle and achieve your goals. 
+
+Personal power is associated to the dimensions of the navel chakra and has two aspects: 
+Will power 
+Awareness 
+
+Will power is the ability to make what you want into reality. With will power you get what you want. With will power you can push through opposition. Will power is the sheer force of your mind to achieve your aims. It is the spiritual quality that enables all your goals to manifest. Willpower is the strength to carry out intentions. If you have a strong ability to carry out what you want to do then you have a strong willpower.
+
+Long ago in India, a yogi and his disciple entered a capital city along a pilgrimage route. They had no money, food, or a place to stay. The disciple planned to beg for their food and sleep in the street. He said to his teacher, "We can beg for food here and sleep in the street to night". 
+"No, tonight we are going to eat and sleep at that inn," the yogi said pointing across the street to a fancy inn,
+"How?" The student asked, “We haven’t any money.”
+“Our deed is but to ask,” The yogi responded.
+Sitting down, the yogi recited a verse from the Upanishads, the ancient holy scriptures, saying:
+"You are what your deep, driving desire is.
+As your deep, driving desire is, so is your will.
+As your will is, so is your deed.
+As your deed is, so is your destiny."
+After sitting in silence for a few minutes, the Yogi stood up and walked toward the inn. His disciple followed him. As they entered the inn, a well-dressed innkeeper approached them and asked, "Can I help you Swami?”
+“Yes,” the yogi responded, “We have no money and are in need of a room and some food. Can you help us?”
+The innkeeper raised his eyebrows and said nodding, “It’s late at night now and I do have an empty room, so you may have it. As well, a wedding party has just ended and there is an abundance of uneaten food, so you may eat as much as you wish.” 
+The Yogi thanked the innkeeper and proceeded to prepare a plate of food.
+
+The amazed disciple asked the yogi, "How did you know?"
+The yogi smiled and said, "I didn’t know, I willed. When you direct your will, your aim materialized miraculously and perfectly."
+
+Though will power is important, personal power is more than will power alone. Personal power also consists of awareness. Awareness of opportunity is personal power. You can have all the will power in the world, but if you are not aware of the opportunities to apply it toward, then you will achieve far less. With the personal power of awareness, you can see the most efficient ways to achieve your goals. 
+
+Once a man came across a wise Yogi sitting in front of a tall stone wall. Seeking to better his position in life, the man asked the Yogi, “Great sir, what is the path to riches?” 
+
+The Yogi responded, “A rich man I had counseled brought me here and told me that my payment, a chest filled with gold lay the other side of this wall. You are welcome to have the gold if you can fetch it before me.” With that the Yogi sat down and began to meditate.
+ 
+Amazed, the man went about seeking a way over the wall. There was no way around the wall. It was in front of a tall cliff and was curved to meet the cliff side at both ends. He thought he’d surely get the gold before the Yogi finished his meditation. The man tried to climb the wall, but the wall was too smooth for him to grip and too tall for him to get over. He then resorted to ramming the wall, hoping he could push the wall over or break a hole in it. After great exertions of strength, he fell down exhausted, unable to topple the wall. 
+
+As the man gasped for air, the Yogi completed his meditation, stood, and walked far to the right. Aware of a break in the wall, the Yogi simply walked around the giant stones to find the gold and continue on his journey. 
+
+Developing personal power is the way to accomplish your goals and avoid problems.  Job Yoga is a way to radically increase your personal power.   Your level of personal power determines your financial and spiritual success.  Personal power is the essential quality Job Yogis develop in their work.  All aspects of a Job Yogi’s success are the outcome of personal power. 
+
+Personal power can be cultivated. Those with a high degree of personal power have developed it. You cultivate personal power through directing your outlook, thoughts, attitudes, and feelings. Anyone who is preeminently successful can tell you of inner beliefs, particular views, and willful approaches that they have followed to gain their success. Through these means of inner attention they have gained personal power.
+
+Thomas Edison is arguably one of America’s greatest inventors and businessmen. Considered dumb and scattered by his schoolteachers, Edison, with few vocational opportunities, worked at the railroad selling snacks till the age of 15. 
+
+By the age of 22, Edison had discovered his path of personal power. In 1869 he received his first patent and went on to build his own Laboratory in 1876. He invented the phonograph in 1878; invented the electric bulb in 1879 and founded General Electric in 1892.
+
+Thomas Edison is best known for his transformation from humble beginnings and his persistence to succeed. What follows are some of Thomas Edison’s life lessons, business lessons, and strategies for success. These are his rules for personal power.
+
+"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
+"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
+"Genius is one percent inspiration; and ninety nine percent perspiration."
+"I find my greatest pleasure and so my reward, in the work that preceded what the world calls success."
+"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
+"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is to always try just one more time."
+"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, stick-to-itiveness and common sense."
+"The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
+"There is far more opportunity than there is ability."
+"There is no substitute for hard work."
+"What a man's mind can create, man's character can control."
+"What you are will show in what you do."
+
+Job Yoga is a structured method for cultivating personal power. Job Yoga contains the most effective and balanced means for increasing your personal power. By doing Job Yoga earnestly you will develop your personal power and gain a higher degree of career and spiritual success.     
+
+DETACHMENT
+
+A primary principle of Job Yoga is the ideal of detachment. Detachment is working with care and earnestness without expectations of reward. Detachment means that you work as hard as you can, as best you can, but with no expectation of personal gain. Yogis seek the perfection of the work itself rather than the fruits of their labor. 
+
+Buddha taught that Yogis become wealthy by working with detachment. He said that working with detachment means that, while experiencing either gain or loss, you continue to work with composure and integrity. With success you are calm. With loss you are peaceful. 
+
+In the Tao Te Ching the Taoist master Lao Tzu teaches that one can thrive in worldly activities when one does so with a detached mind. Lao Tzu says, “Fame or Self: Which matters more? Self or Wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or Loss: Which is more painful? He who is attached to things will suffer much. He who saves will suffer heavy loss. A contented man is rarely disappointed. He who knows when to stop does not find himself in trouble. He will stay forever safe.”
+
+When someone is detached to the results of their work, they are a pleasure to work with. They are more helpful and courteous. Their selflessness transforms a mundane business interaction into a bright and warm interaction. Detached work is high-minded, heart felt, and satisfying.    
+
+Whether you win or lose outwardly, impeccable work brings you greater personal power and detachment brings you happiness and satisfaction.
+
+The more someone is attached to the results of the work, the worse it feels to do business with them. Their expectations pollute their work. Their greed diminishes the opportunity in work to the lowest levels of reciprocity. Work that is attached to returns is small-minded resulting in pettiness, complaining, cutting corners, and dissatisfaction. 
+
+Most people who have not learned Job Yoga want to make as much money as possible, by doing as little work as possible. They believe this will enable them to go out and do what will make them happy. They think that work is just a means to an end of gaining money to fulfill their lives.  They believe that the rewards of their labor are what will bring them happiness and fulfillment. 
+
+With this disposition, they seek the fruits of their labor. They hastily focus on gaining rewards. They don’t see work as a way to develop their mind and spirit, they see work as the toil required to gain the money for their fulfillment. They see work as draining and their desires as fulfilling, but with this outlook the truth is quite the opposite.  This way, they miss the heart of the matter. They follow a path of self into endless disappointments. 
+
+What would make them truly satisfied is to work with care, mastery, and detachment. What would give them fulfillment is to see their work as a significant part of what will make them happy in life. 
+
+Bill Cosby recalled observing this problem in an old comedy sketch. He explained that since he had become so successful and had so many movie roles, press interviews, and performances to plan for that he had hired a staff of organizers to manage everything for him at his office. 
+
+Bill Cosby pointed out during the workweek, that they were very busy managing events, filing papers, and planning travel. They joked and smiled as they worked arduously on managing his affairs. On Friday afternoons they would all excitedly talk about their weekend plans and say how great they felt that the week at the office was over. 
+
+On Monday when they returned to the office, Bill Cosby noticed that they all looked drained and unhappy. He made several comedic faces illustrating their lack of liveliness. He asked them if they had done all the exciting things they had planned to on the weekend. They all tiredly nodded.  He asked them if they had as good a time as they expected to. They all tiredly shrugged their shoulders.
+
+The punch line of his skit was that Bill Cosby decided he should force his employees to work on weekends so that their lives would be happier.
+
+Detached work is paradoxical. If you desire results from your work, you hinder results. When you work with care and detachment you gain the most. Detachment is the key to selflessness in Karma Yoga. When you are selfless in your actions, your actions are unobstructed. Selfless work follows a natural current to great success. Achievement and success are inherent in detached work. 
+
+When you work with the intention and expectation of getting something good from your effort, you fall out of purity into closed sates of mind that hinder opportunity. When you work earnestly without regard for what you will get out of it you maintain a more open state of consciousness. The paradox is that when you work with detachment, you gain the most from your work.
+
+This paradox can be seen in the story about a small village that learned to work with detachment. An aged Hindu priest moved back to his childhood home in a remote village after running a temple in a big city for many years. The village of 200 people were devoted Hindus who walked 10 miles each way once per week to go to a Hindu temple in a larger neighboring village. Seeing the commitment and hardships of the villagers, the priest started holding weekly prayer worship at the river on the villages Western border. 
+
+The villagers were inspired by the priest’s generosity and the opportunity to worship in their own small village. They pooled their money together to buy a beautiful ritual statue and placed it at the river’s edge. Then they all decided to work a little harder and to give a little more in order to buy an elaborate altar for their worship. Finally the villagers decided to raise thousands of rupees so that they could build an entire temple at the river’s edge.
+
+The villagers had a united spirit. They worked long hours, created new business ventures, and gave more and more to build the temple. When they had finally saved up enough money and before they started construction, the priest called them all to the river’s edge for worship. 
+
+Lifting his arms, the priest said, “Behold, our temple is completed.”
+The villagers looked around curiously. No temple had been erected.
+The priest went on, “Your hard work for god has brought greater wealth and joy to the whole village. The divinity you’ve touched in your work for god is all the spiritual temple we need.”
+ 
+The villagers rejoiced in seeing how their lives had been so enriched because they worked so hard for the temple. They continued to worship with the priest at their altar at the river’s edge.
+
+Detachment is also the ability to let go of things when they don’t aid your personal power and enlightenment. Detachment is the personal strength to let go of jobs, activities, and people that detract from your personal power, happiness, and success. While at work or in your personal life, you may find that you are engaging in activities or interactions with others that keep you from achieving your goals and potential. When you identify these disempowering situations, seek a way to let go of them.  
+
+In Yoga we say that you either gain personal power or lose personal power from everyone you interact with and with everything you do. Examine your life to see whether you are gaining personal power or losing personal power. 
+
+Let go of things that disempower you. Engage in activities that increase your personal power. If you are engaging in draining conversations, mindless hobbies, or pointless activities, employ detachment. Too much gossip and indulgent discussion, TV and video games, and hanging out with the guys could severely drain your personal power and obstruct you from succeeding.
+
+If you’re working at a dead end job, a Job Yogi will use their will power and attention to find another position that has greater growth potential. If your interactions with your boss or co-workers cause problems at the office, a Job Yogi will use greater awareness and care to avoid people or subjects that cause obstructions to progress.
+
+Detachment is not practiced just because something is difficult and challenging. Work is often arduous, requiring a lot of your energy and attention. It is often hard at work dealing with stressed out bosses and co-workers. Though these aspects of work are not filled with ease, they are very much a part of the job that helps you succeed.  
+
+Detachment is practiced when facing avoidable conflicts that derail your Yoga. Let go of things that don’t work. If it’s dragging you down, don’t hold on to it. Do whatever it takes to excel in your work, do your work with integrity, and succeed in your career. Let go of any activity that deters from Job Yoga. Detachment gives you equanimity.
+
+Successful corporations are like Buddhist masters when it comes to detachment. Corporations succeed only if they focus their resources on activities that generate income. If a product isn’t selling well they drop it. If revenues are lagging, they fire employees. 
+
+Cisco Systems is a Silicon Valley giant that supplies the backbone for the Internet. Cisco makes industry-leading hardware and software for Internet protocols, networking, communications, and IT. In 2009 they wanted to try their hand a reaching consumers so they developed a set top box to deliver content to TV’s and acquired Flip, a cutting edge and fast selling digital camera business. 
+
+Two years later Cisco realized that they had over reached. Set top box sales were stunted and the new smart phones took the steam out of the Flip sales. Seeing that enterprise profits were down, Cisco made the decision to drop the goal of being a consumer product company and to refocus on their core products. 
+
+In 2011 Cisco discontinued the Flip. They had purchased the company just two years earlier for over half a billion dollars and now dropped it cold. Cisco also sold the set top box division to Foxconn Technology Group.
+
+Cisco decided to cut 5,000 jobs by selling the set top box division. The Flip discontinuation resulted in 550 layoffs. Cisco had attempted to expand into a number of other consumer markets as well as it sought to continue to grow its market reach, but decided it must cutback those business initiatives that were proving less profitable than planned. Cisco dropped the majority of its consumer electronics initiative and laid off another 6,500 employees. As soon as the loss leaders were dropped Cisco began to strengthen it’s bottom-line.   
+
+Detachment is not cold or mean. Detachment is what works. If Cisco run’s the business into the ground because its attached to its ideas of the set top box and the Flip then many more people will be put out of work. When Cisco is balanced and strong the company will grow again and create many jobs than were lost.
+
+Run your life like a successful corporation. Don’t waste time and energy on people and activities that are profitless. Focus everything on what succeeds. Don’t feel bad about what you need to let go of. Put your all into your work and don’t worry about the results. Detachment enables you to achieve the most while not hindering your success by stressing out about it.
+
+KUNG FU
+
+Have you ever seen those old Kung Fu movies on late night television? The Kung Fu warriors move with precision, power, and grace. They fly through the air performing spinning kicks and lighting fast chops.  They break through, duck under, and weave past any assault their opponents can through at them. Nothing can stop them from reaching their goals. No enemy can overcome their technique. With expert skill, their success is inevitable. 
+
+To most of us, the term Kung Fu is synonymous with the legendary tradition of Chinese martial arts. We think that Kung Fu practitioners are dazzling experts at hand-to-hand combat. We think that Kung Fu is acrobatic fighting. Actually, the term Kung Fu literally translates to ‘hard work’ and signifies the perfection of skill through excellence, distinction, and impeccability. Kung Fu is excellence in hard work and the hard work it takes to achieve excellence. Kung Fu can apply to more than martial arts.
+
+Job yogis are Kung Fu experts! In Job Yoga, we do mental Kung Fu to succeed as gracefully in all of our work battles as the Kung Fu movie stars. We work to be precise, correct, and complete. We fulfill all of our tasks to the best of our ability and push to learn more to increase our ability. We overcome all obstacles to our success with detailed attention and perseverance. Job yogis are warriors of the spirit. Through the mastery of our spiritual Kung Fu we succeed in our pursuits and win the battle of perfection through our work.  
+
+Buddha taught that yogis become wealthy by working with attention. Working with attention means that while you make your living, you should be adept and diligent in performing your work. 
+
+Kung Fu is the process of becoming impeccable in attention and in awareness. It doesn’t matter if you are a novice or an expert in a subject. Impeccability is the quality of attention that comes from your best effort, how much heart you put into your work. It’s not what you know and whether you are good or bad at your work, it is a matter of your spiritual effort. With impeccable effort, you can achieve success. 
+
+Many years ago in Tibet, two young monks started learning the art of painting tankas. Tankas are colorful Buddhist images of saints, deities, and spiritual symbols. Their master taught the monks to perfect painting tankas as their spiritual discipline. 
+
+One of the monks was a naturally gifted artist. He learned his lessons quickly and painted with ease. He often would complete his assignments in a matter of minutes and then go off and do other things. The other monk was a slow learner. He had no innate artistic talent. Learning to paint was very difficult for him. He took hours to complete his assignments.
+
+For the first years, temple visitors praised the work of the gifted monk. They remarked that he was doing a fine job, but the master only praised the slow learner for his effort and care. After a few more years, temple visitors skipped over the gifted monk’s tankas judging them to be nice but unremarkable. They flocked to the images that the slow monk had painted and prayed before the masterpieces. 
+
+The slow monk, being ungifted, had to strive with all of his care to learn how to paint. As his skills improved he continued to grow because he had become strong in applying earnest effort and care to his work. The gifted monk stopped growing when he reached the limits of his innate gifts because he hadn’t learned to paint with impeccable effort. In the end, the slow monk’s paintings were so beautiful that they were spiritual inspirations for others. 
+
+Work very hard, but be detached. Consider your ability to work perfectly your greatest goal. The term Kung Fu describes the process of attaining perfection, not the outcome of the process. Don’t seek the outcomes of your labor or judge yourself by results. If you work with perfection, successful outcomes are inevitable. 
+
+It doesn’t matter what you do, do your best. If you work as a dishwasher in a restaurant for a living, focus on washing your dishes perfectly. If you work at a fast food restaurant flipping burgers, focus on flipping burgers flawlessly. Your work is whatever job you are doing now. If you are not where you want to be in your career, start yoga now. Develop a strong attention now. It will lead to a better job and a better future.
+
+If you lack experience or expertise, it doesn’t mean that your work has to be anything less than impeccable. All of the work that you do is for the benefit of your life. Impeccable attention to work is the way to develop your personal power and achieve success.
+
+Andrew Carnegie is a shining example that impeccable work leads to great success. Carnegie was raised in an impoverished home in Scotland. At the age of 12, is father moved the family to Pennsylvania for more opportunity. In Pennsylvania Andrew Carnegie’s first job was to change spools of thread in a cotton mill. He worked there 12 hours a day, 6 days a week and made the low wage of $1.20 per week.
+
+As a young man Carnegie became a telegraph messenger boy in the Pittsburgh Office of the Ohio Telegraph Company, earning $2.50 per week. He became a very hard worker and looked for ways to grow his position. He learned everything he could about the largest Pittsburgh's businesses and memorized the faces of important businessmen. 
+
+Andrew Carnegie strove to work quickly and efficiently.  He learned to identify the different telegraph signals by sound and could translate the signals by without having to take notes. Within a year of starting at the Ohio Telegraph Company he was promoted to be a fully-fledged operator. 
+
+A couple of years later, Thomas Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company noticed Carnegie’s sharp mind, capacity, and willingness for hard work. Scott offered Carnegie a job as a secretary and telegraph operator at a solid salary of $4.00 per week. Through his hard work and perseverance Carnegie quickly climbed the corporate latter to become the superintendent of the Pittsburgh Division. 
+
+From opportunities opened by his railroad contacts Carnegie began to invest. These investments gave him the capital to start what would become US Steel; the worlds largest steel company and make Carnegie one of the worlds wealthiest men.
+
+When you put the time in to your work with great effort, with your whole mind and heart, your work generates a higher level of energy. This impeccability transforms your work from a chore to an empowering experience. Impeccable work makes your work better, more successful and more satisfying for you.
+
+Next to meditation, work has the greatest affect on your mind and spirit. Work with excellence. Do your best at your work. Heartfelt work is holy. Your work is your spiritual path. Through impeccability, your work leads to personal power, career success, and spiritual knowledge. 
+
+Once a lay Buddhist practitioner approached his Buddhist teacher with a plea.
+“Master, please accept me into the monastery as a monk.” The man asked.
+“But you have a wife and three children. You must provide for them,” The teacher said.
+“But I long for a spiritual life. I love my family and am happy with them, but I must spend ten hours a day farming to earn a living. I feel I need to be spending that time in spiritual practice.”  
+“Then do your work perfectly.” The teacher said, “Plant seeds in the perfect place. Turn soil with one movement of the shovel. Chop wood straight down the center.”
+
+The man realized that he never really tried very hard in his work. He was a little sloppy. He always did just enough to get the job done, but never did his best. He never tried to do his work perfectly because he didn’t think it mattered. 
+
+“But why put so much effort into menial work?” The man asked. 
+“Because mindful work is spiritual practice.” The teacher said. “Perfect your work, it is meditation.”
+
+Instead of becoming a monk, the man decided to do his work impeccably. He put more energy into his work. He put his heart into his work. He found that work was more interesting when he tried to do it perfectly. It took on a new dimension of self-perfection and refinement. After many years the man became a well known enlightened laymen and wealthy householder. Though he learned many spiritual doctrines from his teacher, he attributed his practice of perfect work to his success. 
+
+CASH FLOW = ENERGY FLOW 
+
+There is a balance in the inner and outer worlds. Yogis observe a balance between the spiritual world and the physical world. If you have an imbalanced focus on the spiritual world, you will get spaced-out and have a difficult time dealing with the physical world. If you have an imbalanced focus on the physical world, you will not be happy and fulfilled, seeing the endless dimensions of divinity in your life. Yogis make progress in and pay proper attention to both spiritual development and physical development.
+
+Spiritually minded people often over-focus on the spiritual ideals of Yoga without being grounded in the disciplines of action. They may enjoy the concepts of limitlessness, love, and spiritual union, but lack impeccable attention to their work. The true spiritual awareness of Yoga is nothing but fanciful notions until you are impeccable in your outer practice of Yoga. To understand the higher spiritual teachings, your physical attention must be strong. You must master the outer teachings to gain a strong mind and the personal power to experience the innermost spiritual truth. 
+
+Many Spiritually minded people work in powerless jobs and manage their careers poorly. They don’t see their work as a great part of their spiritual practice. They see it as just something they have to do to pay the bills so they can meditate and read spiritual books in their free time. Yet because they don’t deal with the financial stresses of the world in a powerful way as spiritual practice, they are unhappy and their other spiritual practices suffer.
+
+People who do not practice Yoga may succeed in work with mastery, but gain no spiritual awareness and therefore experience limited satisfaction. They master the same outer forms of work that a Yogi must master. In the business world, there are many successful people who engage perfectly in outer forms of attention, focus, and impeccability. They develop their skills and build personal power through work. Though their work may be powerful, their work does not bring true happiness and deep fulfillment. 
+
+A high-powered career and a lot of money don’t guarantee happiness. There are as many unhappy people in Beverley Hill mansions and New York City penthouses than anywhere else. Though their strong careers worrilessly provides for them and gives them opportunities for leisure and entertainment, they are still no happier than the suburbian middle-class. When they work with no spiritual intention, no spiritual awareness, and with no love, they are limited to only physical success. Physical success does not bring them lasting happiness. Spiritually un-awakened, they slave away, succeeding unhappily in the rat race of life.
+
+There is a balance between your income and your spiritual awareness. There is a balance between your success in work and your success in spiritual practice. You will observe that your success in meditation grows as your work improves. You will also observe that your career success improves as your meditation excels. The goal of Job Yoga is simply this balance. We find that the inner spirit of our work becomes the outward success of our Yoga.  
+
+A clear example of Buddhist philosophy and pragmatic work can be found in the story of Phil Jackson. Phil Jackson, the head coach of the Chicago Bulls and The Los Angeles Lakers, is regarded as the most successful coach in the NBA with 11 titles and thirteen appearances in the finals. 
+
+He’s been labeled the “Zen Master” of Basketball, with over 30 years of Soto Zen meditation practice, Phil Jackson used meditation and spiritual philosophy as an intrinsic part of his coaching. He taught players meditation so they could quiet their minds and focus better on the game. Meditation allowed his players to make better decisions during extreme moments on the basketball court.
+
+Phil Jackson attributed his success to both perfect performance and spiritual observance. His tactical excellence in coaching was illustrated in his effective use of the triple-post offence. This was his key strategy, using the sideline triangle between the center standing at the low post, the forward at the wing, and the guard at the corner. The other guard would stand at the top of the key and the weak-side forward on the weak-side high post. This created proper spacing between players and allowed them to pass effectively so that every pass had a purpose that was dictated by the defense.
+
+In coaching spiritual observances, Phil Jackson emphasized awareness and selfless teamwork to achieve victory. Jackson taught mindfulness to his players to help them pay precise attention to what was happening during a game moment by moment. Jackson encouraged his players to practice Buddhist philosophy off the court as well by giving them books to read like Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The team also developed a playing strategy based on Taoist principles.
+
+Phil Jackson’s teachings were very practical and usable for his players. They also illustrate impeccable awareness and detachment to the fruits of labor taught in Job Yoga. Phil Jackson said, “In basketball–as in life–true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it’s no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you’re going to win or lose and focus your attention on what’s happening right this moment”
+
+In Job Yoga there is a clear way to measure your progress. You can see your progress clearly in your income. To observe success in your Yoga track your salary. Cash flow = energy flow. If you are making more money than before, you are making progress. If you are making more money every year, you are doing consistent practice. If you are making 10% or higher income leaps every year, you are doing Job Yoga well. If you are at the same level of income or are making less than you did in the previous year, you are lacking in your Job Yoga practice. 
+ 
+In Job Yoga, we let money lead the way. Cash flow = Energy flow is a means of navigation for a job yogi. The more money that you make, the more personal power you have. Job yogis always follow the money in considerations of career. It enables them to overcome fear and egotism as they push their careers forward. 
+
+Fear is the primary reason that most people don’t have the success they want in their careers. Most people are afraid to try new things. They are afraid of change. They are afraid to take risks because they fear the results. In Job Yoga, though we may have fear, when we see a career opportunity that we can achieve that has a higher compensation, then we take it. Though afraid, we do it anyway. When we succeed, we see that there was really nothing to fear. Facing fear for a stronger step in your career is a discipline of Yogic selflessness. In Job Yoga we transcend our fear by following the rule: Cashflow = Energy Flow.
+
+Another prominent reason that many people don’t have the success they want in their careers is the ego. The ego in this sense is the limited definition of who you are that prevents you from expanding your career horizons. Someone may think, “I’m only a spreadsheet analyst. I got D’s in arithmetic. I shouldn’t apply for the computer programmer position that my boss offered our team even though there’s training and it pays a whole lot more.” This kind of thinking limits your success. In Job Yoga we don’t wallow in limited self-views. When we see a good opportunity, we think, “Wow, pays a whole lot more! Since there’s training, I can learn to be a computer programmer.” In Job Yoga we see that our lives are better when we follow the rule: Cashflow = Energy Flow.
+
+At the age of 35 Phil Jackson had moved on from his career as a basketball player with the New York Knicks to his first head coaching position with the Continental Basketball Association's Albany Patroons. Wanting more income, he coached in Puerto Rico during the summers. Dissatisfied with the work he was doing and the money he was making, he quit his coaching jobs and reconsidered his career options. He strongly considered going back to school to study philosophy.
+
+That fall, Jerry Krause, the general manager of the Chicago Bulls invited him to interview. He had interviewed with Krause before, but not completely interested in the opportunity, showed up unshaven wearing a weathered Panama hat, which lost him the job. This time he know that the Bulls were the path to the salary he wanted. 
+
+In 1988 after the Bull’s head coach had been dejected from a big game at the start, Jackson lead the team to victory. The following spring Jackson was named the head coach giving him a large raise. 
+
+After nine years as the Chicago Bulls head coach and after winning six NBA titles, Jackson was lured to the Los Angeles Lakers for a higher salary. After winning three NBA titles for the Lakers, Jackson demanded to double his salary. Unable to get what he wanted in negotiations, Jackson quit and let the Lakers try it without him for a year. The results were miserable. The new head coach was unsuccessful and led the Lakers to lose 12 games and miss the playoffs for the first time in 11 years.
+
+The following year Jackson was hired back as head coach. He became the highest-paid coach in American professional sports, ending his career at over $10 million a year. 
+
+Phil Jackson is a shining example of how you can work perfectly and intelligently in any competitive field and use your work as a spiritual practice. Phil Jackson put his practical knowledge of his work together with his spiritual knowledge of life to experience greater spiritual awareness and elevation, and to gain the highest financial success. Phil Jackson is a clear example of impeccable work and impeccable spirit that led him to ever-growing cash flow and energy flow.  
+
+DON’T FAKE IT…DO IT!
+
+Buddha said, “Your work is to discover your work and then to do it with all your heart. To give yourself to it.”
+
+In Job Yoga we develop legitimate skills, acquire proper education, and gain genuine experience. Through these means, we cultivate skills, develop strong Kung Fu, and become highly capable of working in our chosen field.   
+
+In one of Buddha‘s sutras he teaches that there are spiritual channels through which wealth flows to a yogi through their work. He says that you will be wealthy if you work with integrity. Working with integrity means that you develop your career carefully, diligently, and correctly. You keep your skills strong and ever strengthening. You avoid thoughts, words, and actions that would cause you to lose your work, business, and fortune. You engage in constructive enterprises with a positive outlook and prudent conduct. 
+
+Many people seek the top of the pyramid without developing the foundation. They seek to gain the rewards of excellence without developing their excellence. They try to take shortcuts to success. They try to skip steps. Though they feel it’s easier to get ahead by taking shortcuts and skipping steps, the truth is that they find less success this way.
+
+Job Yogis follow a path of hard work and integrity. In Job Yoga we don’t seek get rich quick schemes or try to win the lottery. We focus on doing grounded tasks that are pragmatic and moderate, yet sure in success.
+
+Job Yogis understand that there are no shortcuts on the pathway to enlightenment. You can’t skip steps in Job Yoga. You must traverse all the bases on your way to a homerun. Therefore the Job Yogi seeks to take all the necessary steps on the path to success quickly. If you knock the ball out of the park, you can cover the bases and get the point rapidly. Job Yogis are conscientious and pragmatic, yet fast and efficient. 
+
+A Job Yogis’ effort should be grounded, solid, sure, and intelligent. You should be clear about your goals and do all that it takes to achieve them. Job Yogis take a comprehensive view of their aims and hassle the details to achieve them.
+
+Zenjiro Yasuda, the founder of Fuji Bank, worked with the principles of a Job Yogi. Zenjiro Yasuda had five principles for his work:
+
+1) Go for your goals slowly, carefully, and surely. 
+2) Know your weaknesses and work to correct them.
+3) Never be fake, be truthful in all things.
+4) Avoid superficiality and always get to the core of matters.
+5) Do not overextend and be prepared.
+
+Steve Jobs, whose greatest business successes came from his focus on quality spoke about how he achieved excellence in his field, saying:
+
+“I want it to be as beautiful as possible, even if it’s inside the box. A great carpenter isn’t going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody’s going to see it. When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
+
+“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.” 
+
+“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
+
+“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.”
+
+The study of Yoga is a commitment. Perfecting your work is a commitment. You must be steadfast in your pursuit of perfection. The way to develop both financial and spiritual success through Job Yoga is to work very hard for a long time. Job Yoga is a marathon not a sprint. In Job Yoga we take a long-term view of building our career and personal power.  
+
+We work hard to advance ourselves spiritually. We see that in the perfection of developmental discipline we are in a greater awareness of life, powerful and happy.  
+
+The Enso is a brush painting of a circle. In this Zen calligraphy the practitioner paints the Enso over and over and over again until it is perfect and he has mastered the technique. The object is to draw a perfectly round circle. The practitioner sees the Enso as a connection with the moment, with the universe, enlightenment. As the practitioner achieves greater perfection in drawing the Enso, she transcends her mundane state of mind and her consciousness ascends through higher levels of awareness.
+
+A Buddhist monk who had mastered the Enso wrote: 
+“At the right time, you will be able to break through to the state of nothingness. You will attain this realization because of some thing and you will know with your entire being that you are at the center of absolute nothingness, at the center of an infinite circle. To be at the center of an infinite circle in this human form is to be Buddha himself.” 
+
+In Job Yoga, we succeed by being authentic. We find our authentic strengths and use them. We develop ourselves so that we are most capable of doing our work perfectly. Job yogis do their work with a great degree of integrity. We never try to skip steps. We work conscientiously and pragmatically, knowing that career success comes from us doing our best to do our work impeccably. 
+
+Long ago, a noble and wealthy sage called upon his chief builder. The sage had engaged the builder’s services many times over the years for building orphanages, libraries, hospitals, and schools for the local villages. The sage always paid the builder very well for his work. 
+
+On this occasion the sage said, “I would like to hire you to build a fine home in the field across the river. Here is a bag filled with rupees. There is enough money there to afford the finest materials and build a masterpiece of a home. I will pay you your regular fees for building this home.” 
+
+The builder took the bag of rupees and his payment and set out to start his work. At the building site he of ways to cut corners so that he could keep the left over money from the bag of rupees and complete his work more quickly. He thought, “I can use inferior materials for the foundation and the interior structure to save time and money. Then I can build a beautiful façade so that the home still looks beautiful. Only a master craftsman like me would ever be able to tell that the home is imperfect and will require a lot of maintenance over the years.”  
+
+When the builder had completed the home, he invited the sage to inspect his work. When the sage arrived, he was delighted to see such a beautiful home. With excitement in his voice, the sage said, “You have been a loyal worker for many years. The reason I gave you so much money to build the finest of homes is because I wanted you to have only the best. This home is my gift to you for your years of service.”  
+
+Having said this the sage happily departed. The builder was stunned. He was amazed by the magnanimous gift the sage had given him and was at the same time shocked that he had used such poor materials on his own house. As he walked through his new home, pangs of regret filled his thoughts as he noticed every flaw and weakness. 
+
+You can’t fake Job Yoga. You must put your attention into it for real. If your attention is precise, if it’s excellent, if it’s selfless and spiritual and applied properly and in balance with the physical world, then there is a very beautiful spiritual and physical outcome. 
+
+You can’t fake love, happiness, or humility. You can’t fake enlightenment. You can’t fake Yoga. Don’t fake it. Do it. Learn it. Don’t seek short cuts. Don’t skip steps. Learn to do your work perfectly.
+
+DEALING WITH CHANGE
+
+The I Ching, the ancient Chinese book of changes tells that the nature of life is transitory. Everything changes into its opposite. What is powerful will become weak. What is a bear market will become a bull market. What is a good investment will become a bad investment. What is the perfect technology today will become the worst technology tomorrow. 
+
+The I Ching is an ancient Chinese oracle that gives you insight into your life and the future. One of the I Ching designations is called Tui or Joy. This fortune indicates a time of great success and a feeling of great bliss. All conflict and disharmony vanish and there is a feeling that even greater things are possible. 
+
+Simple people are happy to have this fortune. They see that they are coming into a great time of success and joy. More knowledgeable people are weary of this fortune because they know the truth of change; that success and joy will turn into disappointment and sadness. They take Tui as a warning that they should not become distracted from capitalizing on their success.
+
+Job Yogis understand the changeless nature of life. We focus on being happy with and happy without. We enjoy when things go well, but also are happy when things don’t go so well. The reason is because, win or lose in outer accomplishments, when we work with care and selflessness, we win in spirit. When you win in spirit, you become strong and more capable to gain outer success in the next round. Job Yogis are focused on the inner success that transcends outer conditions. Job Yogis are focused on the spirit.
+
+The growth of spirit is so good that the transient outer losses don’t matter so much. The more spiritual awareness we have, the more easily we can deal with the tough times and position ourselves well to take advantage of the good times. 
+
+Under the leadership of Andrew Grove, Intel faced a serious change in market conditions that drove the company to become one of the worlds leading producers of microprocessors. 
+
+Grove, Hungarian-born, emigrated to the U.S. at the age of 20. After getting a Ph.D in engineering at U.C. Berkeley and a short stint at Fairchild Semiconductors, in 1968 Grove broke out on his own with his colleagues Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore to co-found Intel Corporation. At that time, Intel’s thriving business model was primarily focused on the manufacturing of dynamic memory chips, DRAM. In the mid 1970’s Intel hit a road bump. Japanese competitors flooded the market with below cost memory chips. Sales began to plummet. Grove retooled manufacturing to try to keep up with the devastating competition, but ran into irresolvable production problems. Sales crawled to a halt. 
+
+Facing devastating changes in the market conditions, Grove was forced to change or go out of business. Grove decided to make a radical change! He discontinued the production of DRAM and focus instead on manufacturing microprocessors. Grove played a key role in selling IBM on only using Intel microprocessors in all their new personal computers. His changes saved Intel and oversaw a 4,500% increase in Intel's market capitalization to $197 billion, making it the world's 7th largest company, with 64,000 employees. 
+
+In reflecting back on the changes he made, Grove said, “In various bits and pieces, we have steered Intel from a start-up to one of the central companies of the information economy.” 
+
+When it is time for transformation, the universe reveals the path to that transformation. We trust the universe and we follow that path wholeheartedly. Then we change, we transform. We become a higher, brighter being, more powerful and more luminous. That is the way of the pathway of enlightenment. You never gain anything that you can keep and call your own. You can’t become attached to a particular practice, outlook, or state of mind. Everything will always change.
+
+WORK THE PROBLEM
+
+The problem with problems is that people involve their egos in their problems. A molehill quickly becomes a mountain if the people involved put their egos in the way. Yogis seek efficient solutions to problems. Yogis use the clarity of their mind to separate what is self and what is the problem, and then they work the problem.
+
+In Yoga it is important to look for solutions as soon as problems come up. The disposition of seeking solutions is a fundamental yogic way. Always be optimistic. Most of how a problem works out is dependent on how you see it. Most people increase problems when they hear them. Yogis undo problems by their open attention.
+
+There’s an old WWII story of a U.S. battleship that shows the problems that arise when egos prevail over common sense. The battleship had crossed the Atlantic, heading for Boston. On a thick, foggy day near their destination, the helmsmen called the captain to the deck.
+
+Pointing at a flashing light ahead, the helmsmen said, “We’re getting a call from the Canadians. They’re telling us we’re in a collision course with them and that we need to pull-off to a Southward heading.”
+Angered, the captain said, “You tell them to pull-off onto another heading!”
“I did.” The helmsmen said, “But they just keep telling us to change our course.”
+“What!” The captain yelled, “Give me that radio. I’ll show them whose boss!” 
+
+The helmsmen gave the captain the radio. The captain keyed up the transmission and gave the loud order to target the flashing light so that the Canadians could hear it. Then the captain said, “Now, you listen up! If you don’t change course right now, I’ll be forced to blast you with our main guns in self-defense.” 
+
+The Canadians responded, “We’re in a communications post inland, so you can blast that lighthouse all you want, but if you don’t change course right now, all the blasting in the world isn’t going to help you.”
+
+In Yoga it is important to comprehend the actual problem aside from the attached views of the self. Yogis understand that problems consist of two factors: 
+1. The problem 
+2. The perception of the problem 
+
+The real problem is the thing that does not work, is slow and inefficient, is wasting time and money. The real problem exists in the physical world and deals with the logistics of people, places, and things. The real problem can be addressed with constructive actions to find solutions. It is important to comprehend in full detail what the real problems are. 
+
+An aerospace company set out to test the effects of bird-strikes on the windshields of airliners and military jets. The engineers bought whole chickens at a local supermarket, put them in a powerful cannon, and then fired them at the windshields.
+
+An engineer at a train manufacturing company heard about the success of the aerospace company’s tests and wanted to test his high-speed trains the same way. The train test engineers approached the aerospace engineers to ask for specifications of the cannon and the testing methods. The aerospace engineers gave them all the details, and the train engineers prepared for their tests.
+ 
The bird-strike tests on the train windshields and cabs produced terrible results. Their state-of-the-art shatter-proof high speed train windshields splintered to pieces and damaged the train cabins.
+
Dismayed from their results, they contacted the aerospace engineers asking them for any advice about how to strengthen their windshields. The also sent them an extensive report of the tests failures. 
+
The brief reply came back from the aerospace engineers: "You need to defrost the chickens."
+
+The perception of problems is an outlook of an individual or a group of individuals. It is an idea that there is something wrong. The perception of a problem is wholly separate from the actual problem. The perception of a problem is what one thinks in reaction to awareness of an actual problem. The perception of a problem adds extraneous material to the problem making it more difficult to find solutions.    
+
+Once there was a merchant approaching the central plains village with his wares. Stopping for rest by a cool stream, he saw a monk sitting quietly. Approaching the monk, the merchant said, “Excuse me monk, may I ask you a question about the central plains village?”
+
+“Of course.” The monk answered.
+
+“I’m from the North Mountain Village.” The merchant said, “I sell farming supplies and want to know if the Central Plains Village is a good place for my business. The problem with the North Mountain Village was that in the wintertime the villagers would hunt, and no one would buy tools for farming. So I’m looking for a better market for my goods.”
+
+The monk replied, “In the Central Plains Village everyone farms during the winter because of the fair winter climate. But in the summer it’s too hot for crops to survive, so the villagers fish instead.” 
+
+Frustrated, the merchant said, “Then I will quit my business! It is impossible for me to make a living if I can only make sales half the year. All the other villages I know of with summer and winter farming already have long-established supply merchants that I can not compete with. If I can’t sell farming supplies all year round in the mountains or in the plains then I will lose everything!”
+
+The frustrated merchant turned around and headed back on the road toward the North Mountain Village.
+
+A couple of hours later, another merchant pulling a cart came to rest by the monk. 
+
+Approaching the monk, the merchant said, “Excuse me monk, may I ask you a question about the central plains village?”
+
+“Of course.” The monk answered.
+
+“I’m from the West Mountain Village.” The merchant said, “I sell farming supplies and want to know if the Central Plains Village is a good place for my business.” 
+
+The monk told the merchant about the Central Plains Village climate and the farming and fishing. The merchant sat in concentration for a moment. 
+
+The monk asked, “Was there any problem in the North Mountain Village? Why did you leave? How do you think you will fare here?”
+
+The merchant answered, “I left the West Mountain Village because my younger brother got married and I gave him the shop to provide for his family. The only problem for business in the West Mountain Village was that in the winter the villagers couldn’t farm, so they would hunt. But it wasn’t really a problem; I sold hunting supplies during the winter. I think I’ll do fine here. During the winter I will sell farming supplies and during the summer I will sell fishing supplies. And I was very lucky today! An hour ago a merchant sold me all these farming supplies for half their worth. Now I have plenty of money to stock up on fishing supplies!”
+
+He bowed to the monk and headed in to the Central Plains Village to open his shop. 
+
+Yogis are pragmatic and moderate in solving problems. They make sure that they see the best solutions to make. They incorporate efficient means for correcting problems. They are intelligent and thorough in creating solutions. They are prudent in the course of their actions and are careful not to create new problems.  
+
+Yogis let go of selfishness, pettiness, and negativity so they can effectively work the problem. They don’t allow themselves to clutter up the solution with ideas of blame and revenge. They purify their outlook, knowing that a negative outlook is flawed and creates flawed solutions. 
+
+Yogis also see the negative outlooks of others and forgive them of their flaws. Yogis understand others’ frustrations, blame, and anger. Yogis are kind in the face of others’ negativity, because kindness and understanding are the best ways to get to solutions. Negative reactions to another’s negativity is a sure way to slow down the solving of a problem. 
+
+William Pitt, the Prime Minister of England in 1892, had a pressing problem. He needed to expedite an important agreement in Parliament so that the British fleet could move to defend against the French navy. 
+
+The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Newcastle, had some timing objections to the use of the British Navy, so Prime Minister Pitt decided to meet with him to work through all of his concerns. Pitt called on the Chancellor and found that the Chancellor was in a fowl mood in bed, suffering from gout. Also it was a freezing cold day. Lord Newcastle’s bedroom was ice cold, garnering little warmth from the small fireplace.  
+
+When Pitt asked him about his concerns and objections, Lord Newcastle said that the freezing weather would hinder the fleet movement. When Pitt began to tell Lord Newcastle his thoughts of how the cold wouldn’t compromise the mission, Lord Newcastle angrily said that the cold conditions and his gout prevented him from getting up, going to parliament and dealing with this matter at all at this time. 
+
+Pitt, seeing that Lord Newcastle was in very bad mood, took his boots off, laid down on a small couch and put on some covers on so that they could discuss the matter. Soon after Lord Newcastle came to agree on Pitt’s plan. 
+
+Some problems cannot be dealt with in a way that would give us the outcome we desire. Some problems lead to waste, dysfunction, and loss no matter how we work the problem. In these cases, we use understanding. We understand that we cannot solve every problem. We understand that the best we can do is to do impeccable Yoga. We understand that Yoga always leads to a deeper spiritual awareness and a more profound truth. 
+
+COMPETITIVE SPIRITUALITY
+
+Yogis are very competitive. Yogis like to win. It might sound paradoxical that competition is an important aspect of spiritual practice, but it is through competition that Yogis strive for perfection. If you’re not competitive you don’t succeed. When you don’t succeed, your life is harder and filled with more trouble. So we try to win.  In competing you will find that success and achievement are natural results of Yoga.
+
+Yogis do not compete with others, they compete with themselves. Yogis compete against their own limitations and imperfections.  In yoga we never try to block the success of another. You use your energy to be all that you can be. You could lose the race, but still win. Giving your best effort at what you do is winning. If another beats you, it doesn’t mean that you lost. Do all you are capable of doing and you will succeed in learning the most and gaining the most personal power.
+
+L’Oreal, the worlds largest beauty and cosmetics company uses self-competition as one of its primary strategies for success. L’Oreal discovered that just by selling similar products under different brand names that it gave the firm a better opportunity to innovate and garnered greater brand loyalty from customers. 
+
+Though L’Oreal started with one hair-color brand, the company quickly branched out into many cleansing and beauty brands with products ranging from hair styling, body and skin care, cleansers, permanents, makeup, and fragrances. Today L’Oreal sells thousands of products through over 500 brands in all sectors of the beauty business through a wide variety of distribution channels. Self-competition has been L’Oreal’s key to success.
+
+Winning is a feeling. When you are a winner, you set your mind on success and learn from and overcome all obstacles in your way. Winning is based on personal power. Personal power is your individual level of attention and awareness. If your personal power is low you don’t comprehend problems or opportunities properly.
+
+Winning is an approach of impeccability in life. Impeccability in work wins. We do our best and bring perfection to all of our tasks. We hassle the details of our work. There is power in focusing on all the details of work with impeccability. You use personal power to overcome any obstacle.  Working impeccably increases your personal power.  
+
+Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Megastores and Virgin Atlantic Airways, pushes the envelope when it comes to winning. Though Branson is a multi billionaire who has launched several successful business enterprises, he also pushes himself to break world records. In 1986, Branson, in his boat the Virgin Atlantic Challenger II broke, the world record for the fastest Atlantic Ocean crossing. In 1987 Branson was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a hot air balloon, the Virgin Atlantic Flyer. In 1991 Branson crossed the Pacific from Japan to Arctic Canada in his balloon breaking the world record at an average speed of 245 mile per hour.  In 2004 Branson broke the world record for the amphibious crossing of the English Channel. Branson takes a winning approach to his life, his business, and to his world record-breaking endeavors. 
+
+Losing is siding with limitation, suffering, and the darkness of the mind. Losing is living with an awareness of only the transient physical aspects of life. Losing is a bad attitude, a bad way of looking at life. When you fall down, you get back up and start over. As long as you fight to continue on you are not a loser. If you push on, you will be a winner. Fighting on is being a winner.
+
+Most people were taught at an early age that they are losers and that there are only a few others who can be winners. This is a lie. You can be a winner.
+
+Winning is a sate of mind. The first step in being a winner is finding the winner in you. Look at yourself in the mirror. See the winner in you. See yourself as a winner.  Tell yourself out loud, “I am a winner.”  Hold the winner image in your mind and back it up with constructive actions. Take on easier challenges first. Start to build a success pattern by completing goals in your life. 
+
+When you see yourself succeeding with the easier challenges, then you can prove undeniably to yourself that you are capable of doing something impeccably. Then take on greater challenges. As you take on harder tasks you build even greater personal power and a stronger winner image. 
+
+Oprah Winfrey developed and strengthened her winner’s image by speaking in church and receiving positive feedback from the mass. Oprah recalled, “By the time I was three, I was reciting speeches in the church. And they'd put me up on the program, and they would say, "and Little Mistress Winfrey will render a recitation," and I would do "Jesus rose on Easter Day, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, all the angels did proclaim." And all the sisters sitting in the front row would fan themselves and turn to my grandmother and say, "Hattie Mae, this child is gifted." And I heard that enough that I started to believe it. Maybe I am. I didn't even know what "gifted" meant, but I just thought it meant I was special. So anytime people came over, I'd recite. I'd recite Bible verses and poetry. By the time I was seven, I was doing "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley: "Out of the night that covers me, black as a pit from pole to pole. I thank whatever gods there be for my unconquerable soul." And at the time, I was saying it, I didn't know what I was talking about, but I'd do all the motions and people would say, "Whew, that child can speak!" And so that's, you know, whatever you do a lot of, you get good at doing it. And that's just about how this whole broadcasting career started for me.”
+
+Most people focus on their goals and forget about addressing themselves. This is backwards and is the reason that so many people fail in attaining their goals. They see a prize and rush for it without knowing if they have the strength to get it. They may have obstructing personality problems, fears, and confusions, but they heedlessly push forward trying to grab their prize. 
+
+In Yoga, we begin by developing ourselves so that we are sure to succeed in attaining our goals. Yogis start with a focus on becoming a winner in their mind. Yoga focuses on the refinement of the self, purification of the mind. If you are a winner in your mind, you will surely find the best way to win in the world in any work situation.
+
+Resolve to win at meditation. Yogis seek to be winners of the mind principally through meditation. We start with our thoughts. In the absence of thoughts, we are able to see how to win in life. Meditation is the primary practice of inner focus. Winning in meditation means stopping thoughts, and seeing the bright nature of the mind. When you can stop thoughts and win in meditation, you are ready for any challenge.  
+
+Meditation story achieving a goal
+
+You can learn from you failures. Be very honest about your failures. Self-honesty gives you the ability to change. Self-honesty is not putting yourself down or feeling sorry for yourself, it is seeing what is really happening so that you can do something about it.
+
+Take responsibility for your shortcomings and mistakes. Don’t blame others. If there is a failure in your work, whatever the reason, look to how you personally could have helped to avoid the problems.  Once you take responsibility for your failures, you can assess what went wrong and diagnose how you can avoid the same problems in the future. Learning from your mistakes is a powerful way to achieve success. 
+
+Steve Jobs said, “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It's best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.”
+
+Winners make mistakes sometimes but they don’t get bogged down by their mistakes. They quickly acknowledge their mistakes, correct them, learn from their failures and move on. They may fail, but they don't quit. Instead, they use their mistakes as stepping stones to success.
+
+Thomas addition's success story of inventing the light bulb is a story of learning from failior. Thomas failed about 1000 times in inventing the light bulb before he succeeding on the 1001st attempt. When asked how he managed to keep going while experiencing so much failure, he replied, “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”. 
+
+ Edison said, “The electric light has caused me the greatest amount of study and has required the most elaborate experiments.... Although I was never myself discouraged or hopeless of its success, I can not say the same for my associates....”
+
+“All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem. ... I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.”
+
+Thomas Edison’s story of success shows us that failure should never stop us, even if it occurs many times.
+
+Job Yogis use their will to push to win. They let nothing stop them. This attitude itself is winning. Job Yogis use thoughts as allies. They foster only positive thoughts about their work and success. Meditate and Yoga strengthens the mind and the will till thoughts become very powerful. Job Yogis use this power for winning and know that winning is being happy and satisfied with their work and their lives. 
+
+
+SELFLESS GIVING
+
+Krishna said in his teachings on Yoga, “As the ignorant act for themselves, so the wise should also act, but selflessly for the benefit of the whole world.” Selfless giving is work for the benefit of other people. Selfless giving is intended action directed toward aiding others. We work with and for others everyday. Selfless giving is the spiritual practice of working for the benefit of others in each task, in each moment. 
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+Selfless work is the door to unity. It is the magical bridge beyond the sorrows of the self. The secret is that intention of benefit for others opens the door to spiritual awareness, to peace, and a happy life.	
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+Selfless giving is giving for no reason for the self at all, but for reasons having to do only with the benefit of others. Selfless giving is giving with no expectation of return and no exertion of control.  Motivation to give for yourself is small minded and limited and powerless.  Motivation to give for the benefit of others is big, unlimited, and powerful. 
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+Most commonly, people give to another with a desire of getting a return on their investment. “I give because I get X out of it,” is the equation most people put into their giving. Yet even though they reap the returns they are never fulfilled by them. 
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+Take a moment to reflect on your giving. Who do you give to? What do you give, and why? What do you get out of it? 
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+When you give selflessly, you gain much more in return than you could ever expect. Selfless giving gets you what you really want: happiness. (could use bills it’s nice to be nice) Selfless work is the fast path to satisfaction with your work. We can say that selfless work is work that gives the most to you! 
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+Yet you must give in a proper way. If you go out and pass out a million dollars randomly to people on the street, it would be considered giving a lot, but it wouldn’t necessarily be impeccable giving. If your selflessness is frivolous, it is not as powerful as wise, intentional selfless giving. 
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+In Buddhism we say, “Advance yourself by advancing others.” This is the fastest way to happiness and success.  Yogis engage in selfless giving because it has the greatest effect on our own success and happiness. The most direct path to succeeding in your work is to do work with the intention of helping others.
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+Most people find no happiness in their work. They work, ideally, as a means to provide a happy life for themselves, but often find work to be stressful and toilsome. Even those who make top salaries, create new accounts, excel in sales, or design new technologies work without finding lasting happiness in their labor.  Why are so many people unhappy with their lives when there is so much to be happy about? Why does work seem to be such a burden instead of a joy? The reason is because people’s focus in life and work is not on the big picture. They are working for the wrong reasons.
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+You have two choices in your work. You can work to fulfill yourself or work to fulfill others. Working to fulfill yourself is a focus on your work bringing you the things you want in life. Working to fulfill others is a focus on working to forget yourself, ignoring your personal wants and desires and seeing that your work is for a greater cause.
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+Logically it may seem like working to fulfill yourself is better. You spend a great deal of time and energy on your work. You’re the one taking on the responsibility and risk, why shouldn’t you benefit? Shouldn’t your work provide for your necessities and interests? Well yes, of course you should get and enjoy what you need! But the way most people go about this is so selfish their results are miserable!
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+People suffer when they don’t see the unity of life, when they don’t see their connection to all things. Thinking about yourself is unhappy. Thinking and working for others is happy.
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+You suffer when you try to fulfill yourself in your work. Focusing on and enforcing your personal desires draws you into greater sorrow. Striving to fulfill yourself, you imprint the sense of separate identity.  Self attention feeds your hates, depressions, self-pity, vanity, doubt, limited ideas, and unhealthy concepts. Self-striving points to limited self.
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+The wise give their work to the most noble cause: others. An essential secret of the universe is that if your work is selfless giving to others, you will gain not only material success in you work, but also great happiness. Selfless giving is the secret to happiness.
+There must be a balance in your giving. If you give too much away, you won’t have anything else to give later. You need to make your life strong so that you can create a long-term habit of giving. 
+
+Buddha taught that all charity should come after one’s own well-being. The Buddha, in a sutra called the "Four Deeds of Merit," gave advice on the four ways a person should use wealth. First, he should make himself, his family, and his friends and comrades cheerful and happy. Second, he should make himself secure against misfortunes. Third, he should make offerings to relatives, to guests, and loved ones. Last, he should give offerings to spiritual groups that are sincere, abstaining from sloth and negligence, and who are bent on kindness and forbearance, who tame the self."
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+To be impeccable you must selflessly give yourself what you need to be strong. Sometimes you need to invest in yourself, in your house, your education, your car, your balance so that you can be an effective giver. If you selflessly take the time to meditate and educate yourself, you’ll be better able to help others in the long run.
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+Selfless giving is fun. Working for the benefit of another is not drudgery. If it’s something you don’t want to do for another, then your ego is in the way and it’s not selfless giving. If you find that you’re not happy about it, change your mind. If it’s not fun, make it fun.
+
+It’s easier to be unattached to your work when your work is for another. Let’s take mowing the lawn as an example. When you have a yard you sometimes need to mow the lawn. We want to mow the lawn because it will make our garden more beautiful, but we know that eventually it will grow out again. We grow attached to it once we make it nice and are sad when it inevitably is overgrown again. Yet there is a way to free yourself from the futility of your silly attachments, they way is selfless giving. When we mow the lawn for another’s joy and well-being, we are unattached and happy. When their lawn grows out we are not so bothered and are happy to help them mow the lawn again. 
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+You can tell how advanced someone is by how much they give and what they give to. In the beginning we work for ourselves only. We seek to fulfill our personal desires and make our own lives happy. This is the lowest kind of giving and brings very little lasting happiness. 
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+As a spirit matures, they start to see outside of their own desires for happiness and they find new inspirations to give to. In this next step of giving they find that they are inspired to give to another, like a wife, brother, or good friend. This is good because they have reached out to another, but it is still entangled with self-motivations.
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+Next a spirit extends to a greater awareness of community. There is still often great self-identification, but the group of giving grows. Here a person may be much more selfless in giving to a whole family. The giving may extend beyond the family to a team, a company, or social community. 
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+The greater the scope of giving is, the greater the selflessness. One’s giving may extend to your neighborhood, your ethnic or religious group, others who have an illness you suffer from, the state you live in, the society and the world
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+The most esteemed people throughout history have been the ones who were most selfless, the most giving. These individuals have proven to be the greatest leaders of morality. They have inspired the most noble qualities of community and society. 
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+The most advanced form of selfless giving is spiritual giving. Giving to a spiritual cause is uplifting. If you give to a holy person or spiritual school that aids people in profound and meaningful ways, it is bright and spiritually transformative for the giver.  When we give in a spiritual way we become perfect givers. All higher forms of giving beyond physical giving must use the spiritual vehicle. The giving of spirit has the most profound effect on an individual, society, the world, and the universe. 
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+The enlightened give. Everything they do is selfless giving, selfless work. Their work is selflessness itself and their selflessness inspires all to selfless work and selfless giving.  Consider Buddha, Krishna, the great saints and founders of any religion. They gave of themselves the profound spiritual teachings that have lifted the world to its greatest awareness of life.
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+Spiritual work is enlightened work. Enlightened work sets a pattern. Selfless work stems from the nature of enlightenment. Enlightened work inspires others to positive action and changes the world. Be like a star. Light the pathway of others. Giving gives you the ability to have more.
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+LOVE WORKS
+Most people work for a paycheck, to fulfill themselves and their families. They work to put food on the table, to keep the lights on, and to cloth their children. They work to pay off a mortgage, credit card debt, and college loans. They work to have new cars, flat screen TV’s, and to have nice vacations. They see many of their motivations to work as being dutiful obligations. What they don’t see the deepest reason why they do all of this.
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+Job Yogis use a profound spiritual secret to see deeper meaning and gain lasting happiness in their work. They use this secret to achieve the success they seek in work and to gain a prodigious amount of personal power and attain a higher spiritual consciousness. This secret enables them to do their work impeccably and selflessly. The secret Job Yogis use is something we all already possess. The secret they use is: Love.
+ 
+The reason why yogis work is love. We have a fundamental saying in Job Yoga, Love Works. Love Works is the ideal that we seek to achieve in our intention for work. Love Works describes our reason for working as being compassionate, action oriented, selfless, and giving. Love works is the Job yogi’s motto.
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+Love Works means that you are connected to the greatest power, the power of unity, the power of enlightenment, and that in the light of that love you roll up your sleeves and get to work. You work for love. You give of yourself for what you love. 
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+Working for love, perfection, and enlightenment brings happiness. Working to serve the self and fulfill desires is sorrowful. Consider what you want and if it is prideful or selfless. If you wish to be successful and happy in your work, be determined to work selflessly. Selfless work is hard work. Selfless working requires sacrifice.
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+Do what you love. Love what you do. If you are bored, drained, and dissatisfied with your work, sure, try to change your situation, but start with having a change of heart. See the brightest reasons for your work. See the light of love within those reasons to work. This is the yogic method to bring you to see the big picture of your life.
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+At his 2005 Sanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs said, “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.”
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+When you work for love, you can overcome any obstacles to success. Working for love gives you the motivation to deal with even the greatest difficulties so that you can achieve your goals. 
+
+Walt Disney had a dream to create an elaborate magical theme park where everyone could have fun together experiencing an imaginative world of fantasy. Disney wanted to build rivers, waterfalls, and mountains; he wanted to build an old western frontier village, an Asian jungle adventure land, and a fairy-tale castle all inside a magical kingdom he called "Disneyland." 
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+Limited be an eight-acre parcel at his Burbank studio, Disney hired the Stanford Research Institute to conduct a survey to find the perfect place for the park. Finally Disney found the location, a 160-acre orange grove Anaheim, California at the Santa Ana Freeway junction.
+
+Disneyland would prove to be expensive. Walt struggled to raise the capital, saying, “It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.  From the very start it was a problem.  Getting the money to open Disneyland.  About seventeen million it took.  And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance." 
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+He went on to say, "I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral." So Walt used his studio to make a television production to fund his venture. The Disneyland TV series both funded construction and promoted the park. 
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+The design of a place like Disneyland had never been done before. Walt had to create realistic wild animals, a Mississippi paddle ship, and build a huge castle in the middle of Anaheim, California. For these challenges Walt decided to take a new approach. He had his movie studio staff design the park and then made engineers build what the cartoonists dreamed up. 
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+Progress was slow because of exasperating obstacles. Plants and trees for the jungle themed Adventureland were in short supply. So Disney emptied all the nurseries from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Another time while building the Rivers of America attraction, Walt found the ground couldn’t hold water because of the sandy citrus grove soil. Finally he added a layer of native clay on the river bottom that prevented the leaking. Although, minor set backs came up, progress continued.
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+Little by little, working around the clock, Disneyland got ready for Opening Day. Finally, everything seemed to come together. Walt's dream had come true and Disneyland was ready to open.
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+On the opening day of Disneyland, Walt stood in his apartment, above the fire station on Main Street looking out the window as the first guests entered the park. Sharon Baird, a mouseketeer, who stood next to him said, “When I looked up at him, he had his hands behind his back, a grin from ear to ear, and I could see a lump in his throat and a tear streaming down his cheek.”
+
+Walt’s commenter were:
+“My business is making people, especially children, happy. I have dedicated much of my time to a study of the problems of children.”
+“When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impression that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn’t realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I build here at the Studio, and they all got in to it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.”
+
+“Disneyland is a work of love.” 
+
+The crux of Job Yoga is not how you do it, but why you do it. Why you do Job Yoga is where all the principals of Yoga come together. Your motivation and intention to do Job Yoga determines the outcome. Your motivation and intention to do Job Yoga gives power to your work. 
+
+Succeeding in your work is more a matter of intent than a matter of performance. Why you work determines the results of your work. When the reason why you work is big enough, you can accomplish anything! When you work for what you love, then the results of your work will be impeccable.  
+
+What you focus on you will become. This is a primary yogic principle. What thoughts and emotions you allow to run through your body and mind will influence what your life becomes.  The Buddha said, “We are what we think. All we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.”   If you think or act in ways that are negative, dark, and filled with enmity, you will experience a life filled with negativity, darkness, and struggle with enemies. If you focus on love, you will experience happiness and success in your life. 
+
+Happiness is a choice. Being positive is a choice. Working for love is a choice. We decide what is important and what is not important in our work and in our lives. How we choose to see things effects how things work out. We can choose to focus on love in all mundane tasks and experience happiness, peace, and success where others might experience stress and loss.
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+You get from life what you seek. Yogis seek love and enlightenment in their work. When we focus on love in our work, we experience a greater degree of power and achievement in our work. We can accept the difficulties and hardships of the transient world because of our higher intent.
+
+Spiritual story of what you focus on you get
+
+What do you love? Do you love family, friends, and pets? Do you love, your house, your car, and cherished possessions? Do you love your holidays, your hobbies, and your pastimes? Do you love your life, your feelings, and your awareness? Do you love god, enlightenment, and spiritual practice? 
+
+Whatever you love is fine. Love is a universal power that brings spirit into a greater awareness of the unity of life. Love is selfless. Love is caring about another’s well being more than you care about your own. There are many degrees of love ranging from simple to profound. In Job Yoga we use any kind of love. We use all the love in our lives. It doesn’t matter if we love a spouse, a goldfish, or a Rolex watch. Whatever inspires us to that bright, selfless awareness of unity is perfect. In Job Yoga we become very clear about what we love so that we can cultivate a greater awareness of the love in our lives. 
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+In Job Yoga you use the awareness of what you love and how your job supports what you love. Job Yogis use this awareness as the guiding principle of their work. Reflect on what you love. Consider the different qualities of feelings and thoughts that are inspired by your love. Think about how what you love effects and benefits your life. Now reflect on the ways that your job supports what you love. For each thing that you love, one by one, consider how your work benefits what you love. Consider the internal and emotional benefits your work gives you as well as the practical and physical benefits. See the power of your work on your love. 
+
+In an old anecdote, a sewage worker made a toast in a bar after work, saying, “To the job I love!” His coworker, who clinked glasses with him, but instead of sipping, asked with an awed stare, “Why do you love your job. I hate toiling for hours in the dark smelly sewers.” 
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+The toaster drank deeply and answered, I don’t love the sewers. I can’t stand the smell and loath straining myself in all day in arduous maintenance work, but I love my family. Working in the sewers provides for the people I love. That’s why I love my job!”   
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+Job Yogis take it a step further than our friend the sewer worker. They work on every task with a definite understanding of how their work supports their love. They see every aspect of their work as critical components in bringing priceless benefits to what they love. 
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+It’s selfless to do a job that you don’t enjoy to support what you love. It’s Job Yoga to enjoy the job that supports what you love. Job Yogis are happy that their work supports what they love, but they are also happy doing the work itself. If you are only happy with the outcome of your work then your work becomes draining toil. When you see that your work is an expression of love, then your experience of working becomes as fulfilling as the outcome.
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+Reflect on your most noble reasons for working. Who are you working for? What are you working for? Why do you work? For Job Yogis the answer to these questions is: love. Job Yogis align their intention to work with their love. Make this intention your policy. Observe this motivation in every aspect of your work. Love works. This is why you work.  
+
+In Job Yoga we focus on that which is eternal: love. Most people affix their happiness to transient matters and fleeting goals. Job Yoga is focusing on the infinite nature of love while acting in the transient world. When your awareness of your love is broad, you become detached from suffering the ups and downs of the ephemeral world.
+
+The things you love exist in a world that is transient. You can’t let yourself fixate on things staying the way they are now. You can’t build a sand castle at the beach and expect that it will always stand. The ocean’s tide will rise and the waves will wash the sand castle away. The winds will gust and blow the sand castle flat. Though sand castles inevitably fall in hours or days, the ocean is always present, the waves are always crashing, the wind always blows, and the sand is always there. The ocean, waves, wind, and sand are what make the beach a beautiful place that inspires us to make these fleeting sand castles. We love the beach and the sand castles that come and go. Accepting the transient nature of what we love helps us to be aware of the eternal and essential aspect of love.  
+
+If a man works with the awareness of transient love for his family, he is doomed to suffer. One day he may be happy and inspired by his family, perhaps because his wife served him breakfast in bed and his son got an A on his report card. Another day he may be unhappy and disturbed about his family, perhaps because he had a fight with his wife and his son didn’t do his chores. 
+
+Being caught up in the transient aspects of what you love is missing the big picture. Job Yogis focus on the most eternal aspects of their love. When facing the transient ups and downs, they consider what it would be like it that which they loved was torn away from them forever. This reflection helps them see past the transient difficulties and experience the eternal awareness of their love. 
+
+The poet, Sir Edwin Arnold said of the Taj Mahal, "Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passion of an emperor's love wrought in living stones." The Taj Mahal stands as a monument to eternal love. 
+
+In 1607, prince Shah Jahan was walking through an open street market. There he saw a beautiful young lady selling silks and crystal beads named Mumtaz Mahal. It was love at first sight for the young couple. They were married a few years later.
+
+Mumtaz Mahal accompanied her prince everywhere, even on military campaigns. In 1631, Mumtaz Mahal died while giving birth. While on her deathbed, Shah Jahan promised Mumtaz Mahal that he would never remarry and would build the richest mausoleum over her grave.
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+After Mumtaz Mahal’s death, Shah Jahan ordered his court into mourning for two years. Then he undertook the great task of erecting a beautiful monument to the memory of his beloved. It took 22 years of construction and the labor of 22,000 workers and 2,000 elephants to construct the Taj Mahal. 
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+Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal as an expression of his love for his wife that would transcend her life. This awe inspiring monument to his undying love for Mumtaz Mahal stands as a great work that invokes the eternal form of love from an ancient time.
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+In Job Yoga you focus on the big picture, love. By keeping the vastest perspective in mind, you enter into an eternal reality. You deal with the transient nature of life, but are unhindered by it, steadfast in your eternal resolve.  The big picture is love. Job Yoga brings you into the big picture of your work and your life. 
+
+Devote your work to why you work. Why you work gives you the power to overcome roadblocks and even to perform miracles. When you have the right intent, you have access to a greater degree of power, attention, and light. You feel energized and illuminated working for perfection, spirituality, and enlightenment. 
+
+Yogis do perfect work not for a reward, but as a spiritual offering. Krishna taught that detachment is the spiritual orientation of working selflessly for that which you hold to be most perfect and divine: Love. This noble attitude of offering is the Yogic secret of detachment.
+
+Work is your selfless offering to love. If you work for the fruits of your labor, the offering of your work is impure.
+
+It’s best to consider all work to be an offering to what you love. You selflessly offer your time and energy to accomplish your tasks perfectly. It’s best to work for the sake of selfless offering and not for the sake of achieving goals. When you are focused on achieving goals you are drawn out of purity of intention, which will result in dissatisfaction. Sacrifice your goal seeking in your work, but work impeccably. Work for the noblest cause: what you love, and you will achieve satisfying success in your work as well as the perfection of your awareness. Offer yourself for love. Work for love. In selfless offering you will be successful and happy. Love works.
+
+Fred Rogers, the creator and host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood commented about his work years after completing the filming of his 895 episode children’s show. Mr. Rogers an indelible American icon of children's entertainment and education said, "We have a song on the Neighborhood that says, 'there are many ways to say I love you.' And one of the ways is working as well as you can to bring to others what you feel can be nourishing in their lives. It’s an offering of love.”
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+When you work selflessly, you see a greater view of unity. You see how your actions are guided by a greater power, a force that is more powerful than anything else: love. Yogis understand that life itself is love and that love itself is selflessness.
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+Yogis come to understand that Love Works and that through selfless work one not only expresses unity, but attains it. 
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+Love is selflessness. Love in action is job yoga.
+
+Life is giving.
+
+Selfless service is a way to remove the impurities lurking in the mind. 
+
+Many of the Buddha's disciples, being wealthy, liberally devoted their wealth to the support of the sangha and to the alleviation of poverty and suffering. For example, the wealthy disciple Anathapindika spent a large amount of money every day to feed hundreds of monks as well as hundreds of the poor. 
+Buddhists should give away some of their surplus wealth, but this is only the outward manifestation of giving.
+For Buddhists, wealth, rightly acquired and used, is a blessing. Therefore, Buddhists have given advice about how to accumulate wealth. Though the Buddha himself provided advice for acquiring wealth, he considered his advice on giving it away equally important. Giving away wealth, however, is only part of charity, which, according to Buddhists, is a state of mind to be cultivated.
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+When I work I try to focus. I keep my mind awake. That way my work is done efficiently and effectively. If I notice that my concentration is diminishing, I use my will power to increase my focus.
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+Work for 50 minutes then take a 5-10 min break. It keeps your mind fresh. If you are really out of it, take a shower or get some exercise. Even 15 min works really well.
+
+Teams 1,2, and 4 are good. 3 are bad, leaves one feeling left out.
+
+In Yoga we always seek victory in life. We don’t run from opposition, we face it. We deal with it and overcome it. Strong and able to overcome obstacles we find success.
+
+Do work fast. Don’t take your time.
+
+The Avatamsaka Sutra advocates money lending and the use of the accrued interest for social and religious purposes. In China and Japan, temples served as moneylenders and often used the interest to build annexes and new temples. Buddhist temples and fraternal associations of the early modern period also operated what we would now call mutual fund banking.
+ (specific advice for what to do w/ money)
+The Buddha had specific advice for investing the wealth a person has gained. He should divide his wealth in four parts, using one part to live on, putting two parts "to work," and saving one part for times of need. 
+Putting half of your money "to work" means investing it in a business, he might advise a person today to invest at least 50% of their money in their own business. If setting aside money as a reserve in times of need means putting it in a very safe investment, the Buddha might have advised people today to keep a minimum of 25% in cash. The remaining 25% a person may "enjoy at will." means that this quarter may be used as the individual sees fit. 
+Those with a preference for risk might invest this in equities, for a total of 75% equities and 25% cash. Those with a preference for security might put it in cash, for a total of 50% equities and 50% cash. Considered in this way, the Buddha's advice is consistent with prudent investment behavior.
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+the more you move along a path of discipline, the more you become responsible for what you know. Responsible for power, responsible b/c of your awareness.
+
+Meditation and work is the basis of the spiritual path.
+
+
+ The Buddha advises us to live below our means, so that even if our income is reduced, our lifestyle will not be affected.
+ 
+Life is pain. This is the first noble truth of the Buddha’s teachings. In Job Yoga we take the pain of life, let go of limiting desires and face our fears. This enables us to move ahead and gain outrageous success. 
+ 
+Yoga is not a waste of time. Every intention, action, thought, and spoken word, is geared toward the trajectory in the structure of Yoga. Everything that you do in Yoga brings you into a greater degree of awareness and luminosity.
+
+Krishna:
+Sacrifice speaks through the act of work.
+Enlightenment – the all pervading is dwelling forever within the work.
+
+You will see that when your spiritual practice is going well your physical life is improving too. If your physical life is not improving then you are most likely not truly doing spiritual practice.
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+Add conclusion
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+
+Sam continued, “Krishna said that all work is an offering to that divinity.” 
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+
+NOTES:
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+
+While on assignment for a Wall St. client, I found myself stuck in a long meeting where two departments argued over inconsequential semantic details. A senior Job Yogi from my firm excusing himself from the meeting, said to me, “No matter if I’m in a meeting, a conversation, or a work activity, I always ask myself, ‘Is this making me money?’ If the answer is ‘No’ I let go of it, whatever I’m doing and find some thing to do where the answer is ‘Yes’. I also excused myself from the meeting and started working on my deliverables.
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+James Cash Penney called his first dry goods and clothing store “The Golden Rule” for one very important reason. He believed that the Golden Rule applied to all aspects of life, and he intended to build a business using the Golden Rule as his philosophical cornerstone. 

In 1913, “The Penney Idea” was drafted, outlining Penney’s business values and principles. More than 100 years later, the company’s “Winning Together Principles” still guide employees at all level, perpetuating a principle-centered business with values that extend far beyond the basic task of generating profits. 

These quotations from James Cash Penney reveal the original values and principles that guided the founder as he was building one of the greatest and most enduring retail brands in the history of U.S. retailing. 

Quotable Quotes From James Cash Penney, Founder of JCPenney, About Working With Values and Building a Principle-Centered Business: 
+love “When this business was founded, it sought to win public confidence through service, for it was my conviction then, as it is now, that nothing else than right service to the public results in mutual understanding and satisfaction between customer and merchant. It was for this reason that our business was founded upon the eternal principle of the Golden Rule.” 
+love “In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value.” 
+love  “The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.” 
+love “Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.” 
+ “A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.” 
+ “Do not primarily train men to work. Train them to serve willingly and intelligently.” 
+
+For one famous billionaires, the road to success was paved with naivete, blind faith, and fresh-baked bread. How did Fred DeLuca build the world's largest franchise chain? Discover how Subway Sandwich restaurants beat out every other franchise chain to dominate the global fast food industry from Fred DeLuca, in his own words. 

Quotable Quotes from Fred DeLuca About Building the World's Largest Franchise: 
+ “I tell my team all the time, ‘The biggest chain in the world used to be Howard Johnson. Now no one eats at a Howard Johnson.’” 
+ “I work every day, and I can’t figure out why I enjoy it so much.” 
+ “When I hit 50, I’ll probably say, ‘You know, I could do this for 100 years.’” 
+
+John D. Rockefeller Quotes: Shrewd Principles for Business Owners
+ 
+13.      cosby    "I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."
+21.         give "The only question with wealth is what you do with it."
+24.         give “God gave me money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God, to be used and developed to the best of our ability for the best of mankind.”
+25.          give “Having being endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it’s my duty to make money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.”
+27.         fu/fake “There’s no mystery in business success. If you do each day’s task successfully and stay faithfully within these natural operations of commercial laws which I talk so much about and keep your head clear, you will come out all right.”
+29.         fu/fake “The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.”
+                Andrew Carnegie's Quotes: Success Secrets founder of Carnegie steel
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+2.           give "Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of his community."
+The 'Andrew Carnegie Dictum' illustrates Carnegie's generous nature:
+To spend the first third of one's life getting all the education one can.
+To spend the next third making all the money one can.
+To spend the last third giving it all away for worthwhile causes.
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+5.            give "The man who dies rich dies in disgrace."
+9.            give "No man becomes rich without himself enriching others."
+12.          fu/fake"Concentrate your energy, your thoughts and your capital.'
+16.          winner "Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs."
+20.         fu/fake "The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it."
+22.         fu/fake "Whatever I engage in, I push inordinately."
+24.          winner “Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.”
+25.         winner “A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body can be moved fro the shade into sunshine.”
+27.          fu/fake “And here is the prime condition of success, the great secret. Concentrate your energy, thoughts and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged in. Having begun in one line, resolve to fight it out on that line; to lead in it. Adopt every improvement, have the best machinery and know the most about it.”
+29.          winner “Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparallel success. A whole clear glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!! Achieve!!!
+30.          fu/fake  “The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world will take off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity and  the world will stand on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%”
+31.          fu/fake  “The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else o which he is entitled.”
+32.          fu/fake “I believe that the true road to pre-eminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line.
+33.          fu/fake “Don’t look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.”
+35.         fu/fake “Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.”
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+2.            They think Big
+                "I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute." – Warren Buffett
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+4.            They are competitive
+                "And obviously from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge." – Richard Branson
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+11.          winner
+                "When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure." – Mary Kay Ash
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+Oprah Winfrey Quotes: Business Success Secrets of a Talk Show Billionaire
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+10.       winner   "I always knew I was destined for greatness."
+13.      mistake    "I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process."
+15.     give     "I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process and it's not just about being able to write a check. It's about being able to touch somebody's life."
+27.      fake    "My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
+28.      fake    "Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."
+30.       sangha   "Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."
+35.       mistake   "Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."
+36.         mistake "Turn your wounds into wisdom."
+39.       give   "What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference not only in your own life but in other people's lives."
+41.      fake    "Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."
+42.        detach  "You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not get paid for it."
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+Short Bio of Larry Ellison: Larry Ellison is the founder of Oracle Corporation; the second largest software company in the world. He’s particularly known for his flamboyant lifestyle, goal-getting attitude and his no-nonsense talks. Larry Ellison dropped out of college twice and was told by his adoptive father that he would never amount to anything but he went on to become one of the richest school drop out billionaires in the world.
+He has had a short lived stint as the richest man in the world and was the highest paid CEO in 2009. Larry Ellison earned respect in the business world when he led Oracle into an aggressive acquisition move and ended up buying 57 companies within five years. Below are some famous Larry Ellison quotes and business principles.
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+19.   give       "I think after a certain amount, I’m going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying."
+35.     detachment     “If your cash is about to run out, you have to cut your cash flow. CEOs have to make those decisions and live with them however painful they may be. You have to act and act now; and act in the best interest of the company as a whole, even if it means that some people in the company who are your best friends have to work somewhere else.”
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+In the 1930s, Juan Trippe found that his company, Pan American World Airways, had been edged out of the lucrative U.S. airmail market. Since he was unable to compete in the U.S., he decided to claim the international airways.
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+He started Pan Am flights to Latin America as a mail service.  Later Trippe realized that adding passengers would increase profits, so he installed a couple of wicker seats. 
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+In 1935, with some momentum from his Latin America flights, Trippe started Pan Am transpacific airmail service to China. Passenger service started a year later. A flight to Hong Kong was about the cost of new a luxury car, but the Pan Am China Clippers had lavish sleeping booths, a dining room, a VIP lounge, and dressing rooms.
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+In 1939, Pan Am began the first transatlantic service on the Yankee Clipper. Passengers flew in a luxuriously appointed Boeing 314 double-decker, which even had a honeymoon suite. Between 1935 and 1940 the number of Americans making international flights soared.
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+Trippe’s decision to launch the China Clipper and then the Yankee Clipper provided the fuel for the takeoff of mass international aviation.
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