Welcome to week six. In the following excerpt from The Caravan of Remembering, David listens as Savitri and a young girl have a conversation about Right Livelihood in Buddhism and how it relates to our essential nature.
Excerpt:
"Right livelihood calls us to be in service to something larger than ourselves.The Eightfold path also calls for the liberation of all sentient beings. I feel that this path also reminds that to be here at all is a great opportunity. Wouldn't that make it important to honor our reason for being here?"
Watching her as she talked, Savitri replied to her, "Yes, the Buddha is quoted as saying, 'Your work is to find your work and give all of yourself to it.' When the Buddha says this, what is he saying? Is he asking us to find something or anything that we can do and give all of our self to? Is he saying we should attune to the nature of our mind stream, or to the essential nature that is each of us and give all of our self to that?
There is an essential nature that is the unique nature of your Self. The way this essential nature meets the world will be the way you can be of service to all sentient beings. This essential nature holds the gift of your call."
