Starting Spiritual Practice
Why work seriously when sixty-percent and full effort receive the same pay?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
Additional effort may develop your learning and experience as well as complete company tasks. Calculating that equal pay makes less work preferable can also abandon opportunities to learn and perform better.
A practitioner encountered colleagues meeting basic requirements and avoiding major faults with sixty-percent effort. Full effort was harder without more pay, making sixty seem sufficient. Yet the difference contains learning and experience. Seeing only extra effort hides those benefits.
Through practice, a good job is also a blessing worth treasuring. Salary brings responsibility toward work and those served. Merely drifting through without fulfilling duties gradually consumes that blessing. Continued indulgence may become so habitual that you no longer see the problem.
This does not forbid relaxation. Our discussion distinguished occasional breathing space after constant tension from abandoning responsibility whenever a supervisor leaves. Rest has its place. Notice whether idling has become something you consider entitled.