The healing majique of having a job

[PinealisGlandia]

I've noticed a lot of magically inclined people miss the physical aspect of life, so I'm going to take an opportunity here to connect the aspects of Below with Above and hopefully help someone here.

A lot of people use magic to manifest the perfect job, but sometimes you miss what the perfect job is. A low-level position can be enriching as a channel for energy and an opportunity to practice meditation and get paid for it. Mindfulness and pranayama are the core of many practices and washing dishes or hauling garbage are the perfect time to get your hours in. Most practitioners don't need an extra hour a day to sit cross-legged on their bed. They need to use an hour of the day they're already using to pay attention to what they're doing during that hour, which is energy work.

Money, put simply, is an abstraction of labor in physical form. Labor is jing manifested. When you work for money, you are putting your jing into the world and getting a redemption token for it. In other words, alchemy, transmuting energy into another form (whatever you spend the money on). While you're working your jing (washing dishes, that is), you can practice refining it into shen.

White magic is miracle majique. Things line up "on their own", just because you're doing the right things. Practicing mindfulness will open up doors unrelated to the activity you were mindful of. Yes, it is good to be aware of your own breath while you are just sitting, do that too. But the gains will be greater for being aware of your breath while you are engaged in activity.

A monk once said: "Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water."

 

[SkullTraill]

Interesting take! Thanks for sharing.

 

[IllusiveOwl]

Karma yoga is the yoga that's related to every-day workers. You work with no interest in the outcome or fruit of your labor, you just work for the sake of it, because that's your dharma, and through this practice you could evidently get yourself some moksha.

 

[Xenophon]

A job is an ongoing source of frustration and thumps to one's ego. They say that helps one wake up, spiritually speaking.

I wouldn't know. I never held a job long enough to find out.

 

[stalkinghyena]

There's a story about an elderly monk who worked all day and then helped himself to a little bowl of rice. His fellow monks thought he was too old to be working and should be resting, so they hid his tools. When this happened he just sat down and refused to eat. When asked why he was starving himself, he said, "No work, no food."