Mental Illness, Work & Life's Priorities.

-=- Physical Security Specialist at Juwentus Company. -=-


Mental Illness is example of how bad karma from this and previous lives can ripen and hinder someone in attempts of being useful.

I think too many of mentally ill people treat their illness as an excuse from work, relying on social welfare to sustain themselves.

I've heard: 'i am not fit for work', when i asked.

But it doesn't have to be that way - i think that people without hope for normal life should be gently encouraged at first until they relax, then introduced to self-discipline and daily routines required for work and life as independent people.


One also should set-up priorities for one's life, i think - and fight for what's important for him or her.

In my case the top priority is enlightened love with a buddhist woman / i know which /, and i think that work, responsibility & self-independence are important when one wishes to create family.


After working for about five years as a computer programmer, my mind state worsened and i've lost my job.

... i've attended to therapy, prepared myself for work and independent life.

... i've started a few of projects, also related with computer sciences.

... but sciences - while can be fascinating - are nothing compared to Love, i think.


After living so many years on social welfare, trying to find work and be self-independent - finally found a job as a physical security specialist.

It's less demanding job than working as a computer programmer in a corporate office.

Still it's a step forward, a way of self-improvement, a way of self-introduction to work discipline and self-independence.

After being unemployed for so long - one's mind fears changes, fears work. There are mental illness symptoms associated that hinder work attempts. So, even easy job is better than nothing - at least at first - as a step onward.

Once i am ready - perhaps in 3 years - i'll try to return to professional programming and sciences.

Work Choice & Buddhism.

Quote.

'The Buddha stressed that the work we choose, how we sustain ourselves, is central to living ethical life.

Within the eightfold path is right livehood, the teaching that one's work should be compatible with sound moral principles and should cause no harm.

In a less complicated world 2,600 years ago, the Buddha listed five livehoods he considered unethical: trading in weapons, human beings, meat, intoxicants, and poison.'

-- Quoted from 'Buddhadharma' magazine, article by Konda Mason, Fall 2018.


Blog author's comments.

i've started scientific project for a buddhist woman i love, and for Lama Ole Nydahl.

Parts of this project are fairly innocent tools, and other parts are too much weaponry.

i am considering to cease production of the more dangerous parts, because i fear that resulting bad karma will stand in the way of love.


See also if You wish: Spiritual Approach to one's Work.

Spiritual Approach to one's Work.

About.

It is Lama Ole Nydahl's message to practice Buddhism in all of one's life's activities.

Professional work is not exception.

... after months and years chasing job offers, i've just started work as a security guard on hospital construction site.

... i try to identify with Mahakala, to guard Purity of Lessons and to guard people's safety.

... helping to build hospital adds meaning to that - as hospitals are places where lives are protected, i think.

... then - just after i started working - i've noticed HH Buddha Karmapa's 17th message.





This lesson of Vigilance also makes me see this job even more in a meaningful, spiritual way.

Guards have to be vigilant, alert - during days and nights - anyway. That's what we are paid for.

My advanced Buddhist friend - Hanna Łubek - said once to me: 'Must be vigilant as the dragonfly', she said it to me - in Buddhist Center.

... i wish to practice Vigilance with my work, with my whole life as well.

... i do not know how to start, so i'll speak wisdom mantras - so in my mind arises Wisdom.


See also, if You wish: Work Choice & Buddhism.


Mantras.

OM MANI PEME HUNG
OM A RA PA CA NA DHIH
OM MAHAKALAYE SOHA

KARMAPA CHENNO

Donating Buddhism on Karmic Multiplier Days.

About.

... i have insights, thoughts arising in mind from subconscious, self-arising wisdom.

... i have voices of insanity as well.

... i differentiate between these two fairly well.


There are Karmic Multiplier Days, Holidays in Buddhism.

... is donating on these days abuse?

... i think one has to earn privilege first to be allowed such multiplied donation - otherwise consequences are unworthwhile, to say at least.


Insights tell me when i can donate and how much, and i obey - do not want abuse.

Until 19th February 2109 there are karmic multiplier days, and on 19th February 2019 is one of the four most important Buddhist Holidays.

... insights let me pay amount i could afford today, so i did.

... i hope it's not abuse.


Mantras.

OM MANI PEME HUNG
OM A RA PA CA NA DHIH
OM MAHAKALAYE SOHA

KARMAPA CHENNO

Getting Up from Workless Existence.

After months and years of chasing jobs, finally signed up a contract.

i feel like i started to get up from joblessness.

But the work does not end here, it's just a start.

Being useful is message from Lama Ole Nydahl, he even wrote a book about this.

... i'll be working for polish Security Company named Juwentus.

My experience tells me that i have to fight disturbing mind states, so they won't be causes of getting fired.

That's what i am doing, fighting subconscious habits using wishes, mantras and medicines, fighting karma that endangers professional approach to this job.

Once i am paid - about 25 march - i wish to support Warsaw Buddhist Center, formerly Stupa House with 108 PLN/month.

... i wish to donate to Wicca and Temple of Witchcraft as well, 30 PLN/month each of them.

... perhaps in future i'll support Catholic Church as well, and/or the Golden Dawn - who seek union with YHVH with their unorthodox methods.

... those who support these causes, please support me with wishes, mantras, meditations, spells and/or prayers.

Thank You in advance.


See also, if You wish: Get up, Bad Karma is Empty.

Get up, Bad Karma is Empty.

... it is said that a true warrior is measured not by how many times he or she falls, but by how many times he or she stands up.

In Buddhism we believe that what occurs in mind, develops later in speech and actions.

... i have a lot of self-destructive thoughts in mind, and i try to oppose worst with mantras and wishes.

When unopposed, these thoughts ruin one's life.

... i think it's how karma works.

... it is also true that people fear changes, of unknown that these changes bring ... - so when one tries to change himself or herself for better - parts of one's self oppose - in my case this takes form of in-mind self-slander and self-destructive auto-aggression.

... i hope that i'll find causes and conditions of my ego's destructive self-behavior and stop them, before i am too old to experience love in my middle age.

Term 'empty' i understand as 'dependent on conditions', 'non-permanent'.

... as years pass, i lose hope for living fairly normal life, i lose hope for experiencing enlightened love.

... i am trying to 'get up', to make my life better - for benefit of me and others - but feel beaten and slandered by my own mind instead.

... i think i need to understand my ego, my self - and counter worst parts of it with mantras and wishes.

Then hopefully my life will change for better.

Thankfully one's reality is not fixed still, thankfully we can change ourselves and the world in result as well.

What we fear - the Changing Nature of Reality - mean that we can change for better and improve our and our friends' lives - even if we are never prepared for unknown dangers that changes bring.

... i hope this brings us hope.