ZENgagement: Work is pervasive
By David Zinger on Feb 27, 2008 in Employee Engagement, Zengagement
Employee Engagement is all about work.
Speaking about the daily activities in which humans engage, everything is work — being alive and in a body is already work. Every day there is eating and sh..ting and cleaning up. There is brushing and bathing and flossing. Every day there is thinking and caring and creating. So there is no escape from work — it’s everywhere. for Zen students there’s no work time and leisure time; there’s just lifetime, daytime and nighttime. Work is something deep and dignified — it’s what we are born to do and what we feel most fulfilled in doing. ~ Norman Fischer, Zen monk abbot, (From Howard Gardner’s Responsibility at Work).
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Tim Wright | Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
David -
A fresh, if all-inclusive, perspective!
I like that Fischer, by omission, makes clear what the “it” in sh–t is all about.
Tim