A piece of wisdom from
December 16, 2021 · Thursday
The quote
“Millennial burnout is not a problem of bad work-life balance. It is the lived consequence of a generation raised to optimise themselves into a labour market that has been engineered against them.”
— Anne Helen Petersen · Burnout
The concept
Dharma
The right thing to do, in your particular life, right now.
Dharma is the most translated and most mistranslated word in Indian thought. It is not religion. It is not duty in the dull civic sense. It is the right action, for you, in your nature, at this stage of your life, with the people in front o…
A practice for today
Notice one moment today when the lesson of Dharma. The right thing to do, in your particular life, right now.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 4.8
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्। धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे॥
“For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and to re-establish dharma, I am born age after age.”
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