INCORPORATE BUDDHISM INTO YOUR LIFE
Question: A fellow Buddhist practitioner is a business owner. To win more business, he constantly needs to come up with all sorts of ideas, which causes a competitive mindset to arise. As such, he finds it difficult to attain a tranquil mind. What should he do?
Answer: It’s almost unavoidable to have a competitive and greedy mindset in business. Otherwise, one would not venture into it. However, as a Buddhist practitioner, you should rid your greed and embrace the mentality that you will only earn what is rightfully yours, and not take even a little more than you should. Only with such a mindset you will gradually improve in your spiritual cultivation.
Say, you are selling something, you should only earn what the item is worth, no more, no less. If you jack up the price when things are selling well, you are being greedy.
As a Buddhist practitioner, your daily life itself is part of your practice. That is, to rid yourself of greed, hatred and ignorance, even when you are running a business. If you are overcome by greed in your business, how can your cultivation progress? Therefore, you must restrain yourself. After all, isn’t it just a little money? If you don’t earn it today, you can always earn it somewhere else tomorrow.
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Discourse (Question 63), 25 August 2013
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