A friend of mine works a high powered job at Microsoft; which is an interesting description in the first place. It's interesting to watch her journey. MSFT is some what of a evil ego builder in that you think your identity is collective; you are nothing if you don't have an email address that ends in @microsoft.com. Interestingly her blog is titled "workingtodeath." She is on the verge of a break, which I recall having one similar just about 1.5 years ago. Having attended a advanced meditation course this past weekend, I paraphrase something Sri Sri said prior to one meditation and I post it here:
If you honestly got word that you had just 3 years to live, what would you do? Think about it. Would you change your work relationship? Would you change your relationships all together? How would you spend the time? What if it were 3 months? Would it change...the relationships? How about 3 weeks? Now what would you do? Is it different? What about 3 hours? Now what? What if this next deep breath was your last intake...AND your breath out was your last? Dead to the world. Would you be conscious of this last breath, or would you continue working some mindless drone position thinking you will make a difference. we all go to the grave. Spend time consciously knowing yourself and not spending endless hours chasing your tail. You, me, we all go to the grave. Until we realize this life is short, really, really short and that we are nothing to this world...we can be free."
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Good timing. I know someone else at MS who is going through a rough time and needed to see this so I passed it along. Thanks for keeping us grounded. :)
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