Karma Yoga

Life has its round-about ways to get you to your destination. I saw my mission to observe my profession and it's people from a distance and accumulate enough material to write books about how one can be Zen at work and manifest exactly what one wants by just walking the Tao. While this might be right, and in the end probably will be right, the signals I have been getting at work recently are quite different: work is sucking me in 100 percent, while my work as a spiritual writer is just simmering in the background.

Karma Yoga is about doing your job to the best of your abilities. It is about looking fear into the eye and saying 'I feel the fear and do it anyway'! It's about seeing that relationships and situations are broken and about repairing them. Sometimes I wonder when I observe our top management put in these insane hours and work commitments, or seeing our portfolio manager living in a pressure cooker day in and day out and I am asking myself what force drives them; after all, they are all swimming in money, they could stop working any moment. But  I understand that, besides their love for power and recognition, Karma Yoga drives them. They just have, very much like me, a drive to work off, and we are doing it to the best of our abilities.

Once you get rid of the 'me' perspective and you are being drifted by the Tao like a leaf in the wind, you actually have only one mission left: healing. Put your best foot forward such that every day becomes a flawless exchange of energy, care and attention. You sometimes feel if something is off, very much like you can feel when fear is creeping in. Look for the learning opportunity, reposition and do it better next time. As you know, James Bond was given the 'License to Kill', but he has disappeared for the time being, killed by the global financial crisis as irony has it. Well, I am giving you the 'License to Heal' instead. You can do it right here, at your job, with your family or whatever else you might be doing today. Perhaps Karma Yoga is your spiritual path home as well.