Hello, I am Chong Weiqiang from the website of Road of Miracle Network. In this part, I will talk about the connotation of the field of work in the world and the fusion point of “these connotations and miracle minds”. The reason for me to illustration this part is that people often have troubles and confusion.
First of all, I will narrate the main implications of all the work in the world: every work in the world has different pronoun, for example, restaurant cleaner, restaurant cook, restaurant boss, restaurant buyer and so on. These pronouns also represent different work properties, rules and techniques. And if these different rules and techniques are learned by someone, he would be able to do the work, and the job would bring him the corresponding monetary reward. And money can satisfy people’s food, clothing, shelter and transportation. This is the main implications of the field of work in the world. So, whatever industry you are engaged in, you are restrained to the rules and techniques of your industry, but not restrained to any interpersonal relationships.
Here’s a pretty straightforward analysis of the four kinds of work posts I’ve just listed, so you can see how to defuse the troubles at work.
1.Restaurant cleaner: if you work as a cleaner in a restaurant with 20 employees, you clean your area and keep it clean, then you get your work done, and you get paid. Other staffs don’t make any sense for your work. Your boss, your leader, also has no specific meaning for your work, because your boss is a person who makes working rules and work instructions for you, so your boss only represents a set of work rules and instructions for you. This is your basic work connotations. It implies that you don’t have any personal relationships with all the employees in the restaurant. So, you don’t have to have a substantive conflict with anyone in your working field. To put it more profoundly, this restaurant is empty for you, because this restaurant only has yourself, a set of work rules and a salary.
The only situation where you as a cleaner can have a conflict with someone else is that your boss may give you strict work instructions that make you feel like your pay isn’t proportional to your salary when you are doing a specific job. Then, you can re-evaluate the return on your investment and salary, and then you can choose to keep working, or talk to your boss about salary raise, or find another job. This situation also tells you what kind of person your boss is, what kind of rule he represents, whether you can adapt to this rule depends on your choice. However, even that conflict isn’t a real relationship conflict, because it is only what you give and what you get.
The work of cleaners explained above basically covers most of the work in the world. The work that is paid for with certain fixed rules completed belongs to the type of the work of cleaners. This kind of work is basically accountable. If there are mistakes in work, you should be responsible for them; if there is an error, you should correct it.
2. Restaurant Cook. This type of work belongs to the technical category. The connotation for this kind of work is not fundamentally different from that of cleaner. The only difference is that you need to use your expertise, which is the main source of salary, to complete work commands based on industry rules. If you are a restaurant cook, the restaurant only has you, a salary, cook standards you should follow and your cooking skills. Besides, the restaurant is empty for you.
The type of work that a restaurant cook does covers the world’s technical and artistic types of work, which also follows responsible system and sometimes has more important responsibilities.
3. Restaurant Boss. The role has a complex set of working rules. If you are the owner of this restaurant, you not only need to set all the working rules for yourself and your subordinates, but also need to constantly give instructions for yourself and your subordinates. You not only need to follow the market rules and implicit rules of the restaurant industry keep pace with the times. You have to constantly train or arrange all of your employees to get to the right work post, because only by this will your restaurant normally operates. It doesn’t matter who your employees are in the process of fostering and arranging all your employees. What matters is that you choose the right person to follow your work instructions, which is what a restaurant boss is all about.
From the above connotation, you can see that the restaurant is also empty for you if you are the owner of the restaurant, because the restaurant only has yourself, the profits of the restaurant, and the rules of the restaurant owner that you should obey. So there is no need for you to have a real relationship conflict with restaurant employees.
Then, when you follow the rules of the restaurant boss, your restaurant may develop well, but it may close down. Because there is a saying in the world, “business is a battle, and it is natural for businessmen to gain and lose”. It is possible to fail even if you do a good job to follow the above set of rules, which is nothing new, for there is no absolute thing in the field of work.
The above type of work done by restaurant boss covers most businessmen in the world and jobs with decision-making attributes. This type of work is more accountable.
The three jobs mentioned above basically cover the vast majority of the work fields in the world. You can see from the explanations in the work fields, everybody is responsible for his duty, rules prevail, rewards and punishments are clear, and survivors are the fittest, these laws are not negotiable. But the purpose of talking about these is not just illustrating the connotations of work. My key points are that there are no special relationships in the work area. There is no one else in your field because you face only a set of working rules and implicit rules. That’s all. To put it more bluntly, you don’t need to convict people in the work fields, or to form negative relationships in the work fields.
If you can understand this now and directly apply it to your work field, then you will be able to clearly recognize your position and role in the work field, and then you break away from many worries in the work field. However, anyway, the human beings’ ideology is not very advanced, social formation is also not very advanced, so the human beings cannot completely avoid forming negative relationships in the work field. Then, I will use a restaurant purchasing agent as an example to illustrate the situation in which it is easiest for negative states of interpersonal relationship to appear.
4.The restaurant purchasing agent: This type of work belongs to the business type and is directly linked to money. The connotation for this type of work is consistent with the three positions just illustrated. The restaurant purchasing agent also has a set of independent work rules. The purchasing agent only needs to follow these work rules and the instructions of the boss. But this type of work can easily lead to negative interpersonal relationships featuring concealment and fear. To put it bluntly, the purchasing agent may get the supplier’s backhander after purchasing, and the buyer will never tell his boss about the backhander. At this time, the purchasing agent has built a negative relationship featuring concealment and fear with his boss. In other words, the purchasing agent has created a person making him fearful out of nowhere in addition to completing a set of work rules, that is, his boss. This is one of the most common negative relationships in the work field at present. This situation is also pervasive in many work fields. And sometimes you hide about something other than money, but whatever it is, if you conceal from and fear the other person in the work field, it means you have built negative relationships with other people in the work, unless your work rules involve confidentiality.
If you have these negative relationships featuring concealment and fear in your current work field, I suggest you learn the eighth part and then slowly practice in your work field to overcome this. I just suggest you practice slowly. This is the first time I use this phrase; because there are many hidden rules in the work fields in this age, people can’t conquer the fear of money immediately, and there is also a kind of hidden rule like “if people do not raise the issue, officials do not investigate” in the world. So I just suggest that you take your time and practice being aboveboard in your work field. Certainly, if your concealment in the work field is against the law, it is rigid. Whether you are able to rein in on before it is too late is up to you.
The concealment and fear in the work field above is the first fusion point of the work field and the miracle mind. In the following, I will illustrate some other fusion points.
As for the second fusion point, we should trace back to the beginning of this part, “Work brings people money, and money provides people’s food, clothing, shelter and transportation”. This statement first represents the basic purpose of work. What is the purpose of food, clothing, shelter and transportation? The most basic reason is survival of the body. So what is the purpose of a person’s body survive? Everyone has a different answer to this question. You might say, “for a better life, for better enjoyment of life.” There is no problem for this answer, because no one is going to deprive your right to enjoy life. But I would like to sublimate your answer further, that is, the survival of body is the most important tool you can use to wake up from your big dream of life. You can only rely on a body to learn and practice this thought system that wakes you up from the big dreams of life, which is the ultimate purpose of body survival. If you are committed to this final goal, your attitude toward work, money and body will change dramatically, and your desire will decrease dramatically, which will play an important role in your spiritual cleansing.
All people living in the world have a deep belief in their sub-consciousness, that is, eating, drinking, and sleeping can keep the body running and alive. Although such a deep belief is illusory, it is difficult for people to overcome such an illusory belief in their big dream of life. What’s more, a person’s eating, drinking, and sleeping are independent events, which do not cause interpersonal conflicts or create sub-conscious sin and guilt. So you should make money in this big dream of life, and eat. You don’t need to practice keeping your body alive without eating, drinking, and sleeping, which is extremely difficult to practice and meaningless.
As for the third fusion point, if you have practiced miracle mind in your life right now, you can practice the following miracle mind in your work field: you should listen to your co-workers’ suggestions and reminders that conform to your work rules, and you can adopt them. As you practice this, you will find that every advice and reminder that follows the rules of the work can help you avoid many mistakes and troubles in your work field.
The above principle of miracle mind is relatively huge and abstract. You will gradually understand this principle in the process of learning and practicing the miracle mind. So I will just start with clarifying the methods and the benefits.
The fourth fusion point is the fusion of meeting the needs of your family and work field, that is, if your family just wants you to have a regular job, then you just need to meet the expectations of your family. Certainly, you can make more money on the basis of meeting your family’s expectations, but your base line is to keep your family’s expectations for your work. Because in the process of making money from your work, you sometimes impose what you think is the standard of happiness on your family, which generally means that you first decide how much money you need to earn to be happy, and then you think that your family thinks the same way. In the end, you completely ignore what your family really expects for you. Not only will you live a hard life, but your family will probably live a tiring life. At the end of the process, if you don’t achieve the goal you set, there will be compunction and guilt in you heart, so this is not necessary for you.
The explanation of the above fusion point is misunderstanding between work and life. So if you are already living in this misunderstanding, you can change your mind now. You can change your mind about the purpose of working and making money, making it closer to your family’s needs and expectations.
There is also another misunderstanding that your family expects too much for your work, but you can’t do it at all; at this time, your family may resent and attack you. When this happens, the first thing you need to do is to separate the public and the private mentally. Working and earning money belongs to official business, in which you should understand that you may not achieve the desired results even if you work hard, so the official business is out of your control and beyond the control of your family. After you have distinguished official business from personal hope, you can practice the thought of letting go of fear and punishment in the situation of resentment and being attacked. The results of this practice are unpredictable, but it is sure to be peaceful in the end.
The integration of the miracle mind and the work field has been basically completed. The original purpose of this part is to enable people to practice the miracle mind that wakes them up from dreams in a harmonious environment. And I hope you will wake up early from your big dream and fulfill your mission of benefiting all beings.
Chong Weiqiang
April 2018