I always thought of justifying this 'The Middle Way' .....Buddha pioneered the Middle way long back, the path to enlightenment (what's that) by avoiding the extremes of sensory self-indulgence and self-mortification. The whole idea revolves around the theme of 'moderation'....sounds kind of antagonistic in the fast paced NY life. NY is all about taller sky scrapers, higher ambitions, bigger paychecks, lofty apartments and so on..all things material, all things capital. Moderation is an unknown word in the vocab of the people in and around NY, whether they are struggling actors or established bankers or successful doctors and lawyers.
Life is so hurried here that people don't have actual time to communicate with their near and dear ones....most stuff gets done in phone calls, SMS, chats, blogs, emails....what happened to the habit of just sitting down together for a quiet lunch or a plain walk or just playing a simple board game? We still do all such stuff to provide 'face' time to our 'clients', why cannot we do it in personal life? Why such simple stuff has to always wait for the weekends and not happen suddenly (prize factor) out of a whim? The answers to those questions are obvious; lack of time from work and all. Well adapt the middle path....nothing is more important than doing things (including your work) in moderation specially when you strive for an enlightened personal life. Professional life and work are as much of a calling as the personal goals...and the correct work-life balance can be achieved through some degrees of moderation (the middle way)...what do you think?
inspired by the pace of life in NY
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It is interesting that you bring up this topic. I got the same awareness when I was living in the middle of Paris and just starting to work for a private company. That is when
I got initiated to this religion. I think Buddha was well advanced for his time.
Even if the information is now available in one click, open communication is still a challenging question.
We receive so much information by many ways but we still miss the most important one, trying to dig into all of this and forgetting the personal interaction.
In the big companies, e-mails are becoming a "cover-ass". People still wants to be reachable at any time...just in case.
They do not know that when they retire, nobody will reach out to them because they will have forgotten to build up their
social life, to take their time out of the workplace.
Unfortunately, we have now to deal with a competitive environment but what is the ultimate goal ?... die of a heart attack as a CEO at 40
without any family or friends around.
It is up to each of us to find the right balance, to develop a spiritual life, to enjoy every minutes of what life has to offer because tomorrow may be different.
To me, the ultimate goal is to be happy.
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