Work can drive one crazy. The more you work, the more you inculcate the values of efficiency, effectiveness, and competitiveness. These values subconsciously get used in other parts of your life - your holidays, weekends, and evenings. Either we keep two alternate values in life, one for work, one for off-work, or we need to find something more encompassing.
The value of life, according to Chinese, is harmony with everything, and in that we need to be selfless. Selflessness is a way we conduct, not referencing just to the self, but to everything within the ecology - the people, the plant, the environment.
Its easy to say, hard to accomplish. What's one's dream, when one do not reference that only to him? Where can you go to pursue it when everyone is hoping you could stay? How does the self function when it cannot be found?
However, selflessness does not mean no self. The self is part of the ecology. And every decision made has to also consider this self. When a decision has to be made, which result is good for the self, and does no harm to the ecology, it does not defy the principles of selflessness.
At work, act selflessly. At home, act selflessly. Then we become in harmony with the environment.
(Have I achieved it? No! This is my encouragement to myself.)
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