Spiritual @ work
Being profit oriented in no way precludes the ability to come from a place of spiritual values in our work.
Bernie Glassman’s award-winning Greyston bakery in NY based on Buddhist principles and values is an example of how the so-called spiritual and the material can be integrated in a way that serves both. Work as practice for compassion and wisdom. The only reason it’s an odd concept is because our western tradition of separating mind and body, spirit and matter creates an illusion of separation that never exists in reality.
November 8th, 2005 22:31
I heard an accupuncturist from Baltimore express it this way- you are a one thing, a unity- not a body, a mind, a spirit. He said he was playing with the image that there are levels of density of the unity that we are. I find that a helpful image. It helps me to see the integration but also that we are not pieces parts.
November 9th, 2005 04:02
It’s not the profit. It’s the motive.
November 9th, 2005 13:26
I think the western tradition of separation tends to forget about feedback. Things don’t exist independently, but only in response to a need. It is basic economics but we don’t often think about worldviews in those terms.