I am a pharmacist. I count pills, verify prescriptions, talk to doctors, counsel patients on their medications and answer a lot of questions. That is my job. It is rather repetitive. I am a replaceable cog in the healthcare industrial machine.
You might be a teacher, engineer or programmer. You might be a project manager, carpenter, scientist, paralegal, author, lawyer, or designer. You might even be homeless. You most definitely are a friend, a neighbor and maybe even a parent.
That is your form.
What if you were to train in the formless?
What if you trained in being open and receptive, trained to listen to the needs of others? What if you trained in patience and generosity? Love and kindness? What if you intentionally cultivated focus and insight?
Can you imagine in the course of doing your job that you could also do your art- which is to use reality, people and interactions as your canvas to share generosity, love and kindness. To give gifts that don't have a limit. To benefit others.
Your job- which was repetitive and unfulfilling- could take on an infinite and endless potential. It is a strange notion, but you could fulfill your aims and the aims of others simultaneously.
That is work worth sharing. And it pays dividends.
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