「正命」(Right livelihood) 涉及以工作賺錢，賺取美元、英鎊、歐元、比索等。為了購買食品和支付房租，你需要金錢。這不是強加給我們的一個殘酷現實；這是自然的情況。我們與金錢打交道，不必感到尷尬難為情，也不必怨恨需要工作謀生。你付出的能量越多，所得也越多。賺錢讓你與許多情境交涉相關，它滲透你的整個生命。避免工作通常也意謂著在避免生活的其他面向。
節錄自邱陽創巴仁波切《自由的迷思》一書，「八正道」之章節。
Earning Money
Right livelihood involves making money by working, earning dollars, pounds, euros, pesos. To buy food and pay rent you need money. This is not a cruel imposition on us. It is a natural situation. We need not be embarrassed by dealing with money nor resent having to work. The more energy you put out, the more you get in. Earning money involves you in so many related situations that it permeates your whole life. Avoiding work usually is related to avoiding other aspects of life as well.
Condensed from “The Eightfold Path,” in The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation, page 122 in the Shambhala Library edition.
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