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 Books and articles abound the shelves and internet on how to bring joy at work, offering recommendations on how office workers can find happiness and how they can be encouraged to bring joy and energy to their work which in turn will reap profits. Joy at work goes beyond the standard business tale.
‘All work and no play make Jake a dull boy’ is a proverb most of us have heard of. Is work and joy separate? Osho says, work itself is joy. “If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance. Your work is your poetry.”
Unfortunately an intrinsic nature of man ‘joy’ has to be cultivated these days.
In seriousness one can never be free. The whole human mind has been trained for work. That's why duty has been praised and playfulness condemned. Work is seen as a means for some result. No one works for work's sake. Work in itself becomes a burden to be carried somehow, because it is the end that is to be achieved. Osho says, “play has a different dimension. In play there is no result to be achieved. Nothing exists beyond it. This is action, but without a cause or desire.”
“Meditation gives a new quality of mind. If you are going to your office, go meditatively. If you are doing work in your office, do it meditatively, do it relaxedly. Then you will not be exhausted. Take everything as a play, and you will not be exhausted. Rather, the work will become a pleasure.
Try to turn and change and transform your work into a meditative act.”
“If you are working with joy and song and dance, and if your work has become worship, it is not going to tire you. It is going to make you stronger. It is going to give you more energy to share and more love to share.”
OSHO
- Editor
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