Life and Work for DELIGHT - 3

 Dear Son,
       I would like to tell you about my past life. Whenever I was able to work,
       I felt and touched deep happiness, arising from clear cut work with my heart
       and soul. On the contrary, if you do not pay attention to your work, do not
       give all the heart and thoughts to it, but work lousily, without attention and love
       for the work, you will aim at its result more than its process. For example, you
       may work for rank, power and fame, without considering how much attention
       you give to make the work excellent. To me, this condition of work makes you
       narrow-minded, coarse, selfish and greedy.
      
       I say narrow because you merely think of your own benefits. You are
       not considering the success of the work. When the doer does not gain any
       benefit, he may not do it at all. When the outcome of work is incomplete, he
       will be desperate, feel hopeless and does not have any inner strength to go on
       with the work. Do you know or not when the common good is refused, your
       association will be limited and thus become narrow ? Society is limited by you
       yourself, or by the association which refuses you. I hold that your knowledge,
       ability and experience will bog down and be made narrow commotions. When
       your association is limited by you yourself or by the association which refuses
       you, I believe your knowledge, ability and experience will be enclosed. Your
       common sense, sense of responsibility, your soul, in accepting and refusing will
       become coarse, because of your selfishness and lust for minor things. Actually,
       in doing each kind of work, the results are not only for rank, honour or an increase
       of salary or praise. There are many results for each kind of work, as I said before.
       If you only work for such goals, you will become coarse, selfish and greedy.
       What I have just said may confuse you. I will cite some samples to make your
       clear.
      
       A person attentively grows a mango tree with its seed in order to get the
       fruits. When that mango tree becomes a big tree with many branches and leaves
       and gives shade, the person watches the mango tree with discontent and outs off
       the branches and leaves of the tree. He will explain that he grows the mango tree
       for fruits, not for branches and leaves and shade, when he is asked. The air and
       organic substance come from the roots and the leaves of the mango tree. If you
       do not say that this person is coarse, selfish, greedy and stupid, what else can you
       say about him ?
      
       Son, as for me, to live without working is to take us away from the core of
       life, and refuse to use the inner force to do the work. This decreases the values
       of your life. You will live with fear and unsteadiness, when life is of no value.
       When you don"t see the usefulness of work, you will not find any means to
       usefulness and deep values.