Ever work with lazy co-workers? How did it make you feel? Another person's free ride (happiness) does not always beget happiness (it annoys the hell out of us in this example).
The workplace is a microcosm of the macrocosm. Not everyone just gets what they want. Nothing would get done. Life requires giving and taking..working together. In the workplace I'm able to not be bothered by people's laziness..up to a point..I can see myself and it makes me chuckle, but there are things that do bother me and I speak up.
We can accept the conditions in the world, understanding them as the creator experiencing itself, and perhaps know that there isn't much that we can change, but we can change ourselves and the decisions we make. Our choices related to our own happiness have consequences on another's happiness. So it's a balance as always. Some things you're just going to annoy others with and oh well, they're gonna have to deal with it. But in other cases we have to consider both sides.
I think we have to be careful when we look outwards and become dull to the suffering around us in the name of being enlightened. The best description for that I've heard is "Being bred out of our humanity."
By the way, depending on where you work, the workplace can be a great place to understand and experience yourself, putting things you're learning into practice in terms of acceptance, speaking up etc.
The workplace is a microcosm of the macrocosm. Not everyone just gets what they want. Nothing would get done. Life requires giving and taking..working together. In the workplace I'm able to not be bothered by people's laziness..up to a point..I can see myself and it makes me chuckle, but there are things that do bother me and I speak up.
We can accept the conditions in the world, understanding them as the creator experiencing itself, and perhaps know that there isn't much that we can change, but we can change ourselves and the decisions we make. Our choices related to our own happiness have consequences on another's happiness. So it's a balance as always. Some things you're just going to annoy others with and oh well, they're gonna have to deal with it. But in other cases we have to consider both sides.
I think we have to be careful when we look outwards and become dull to the suffering around us in the name of being enlightened. The best description for that I've heard is "Being bred out of our humanity."
By the way, depending on where you work, the workplace can be a great place to understand and experience yourself, putting things you're learning into practice in terms of acceptance, speaking up etc.