Dharma in Daily Life.
Many people have the misconception that spiritual life or religious life is somewhere up there in the sky and our everyday life is too mundane and not so nice. Often people think that to be a spiritual person, we must ignore or neglect our everyday life. Actually, I think being a spiritual person means becoming a real human being.
1. Wake up and setting a positive motivation as a start. If we set a strong positive motivation at this time, there is a greater chance of it staying with us and influencing us throughout the day. After generating our positive motivation, we get out of bed, wash, maybe have a cup of tea, and then meditate or recite prayers.
2. Find short time to do some study, meditate or recite some prayers. We said it is difficult to find time to study, meditate or do prayers each day. But we always have time to watch TV, chatting, check instagram, facebook, shopping or get a snack. Why is it that the 24 hours run out when it is time to study, meditate or do prayers? When we understand the value and effect of spiritual practice, then it will become a high priority in our life, and when something is very important, we find time for it. In this way, try to set up a daily practice maybe 15 or 30 minutes each day. To do that, we might have to experience the "incredible sacrifice" of giving up 15 or 30 minutes of television or social media the previous evening so we can go to bed a little earlier.
3. Dharma in workplace. How to do it? first of all, try to remember the kind heart and the motivation you cultivated in the morning. Throughout the day, continually remind yourself.
4. Food offering. Remember our motivation is offering our food before we eat. When you eat, eat mindfully. Be aware of the effort other people put into growing, transporting, and preparing the food. Realize your interdependence with other living beings and how much benefit you have received from them, such as the food we eat. If we reflect in this way before we eat, we will feel very happy and grateful when we eat, and we will eat more mindfully too.
5. Reviewing the day, we may discover that we were angry, jealous, or greedy. We didn’t realize it at the time when it was happening. But looking back over the day, we don’t feel so good about what happened. It may have been our attitude, or what we said to somebody, or how we acted. To remedy this, we develop regret and do some purification practice so we can forgive ourselves and let that negative energy go. In this way, we "clean up" emotionally and resolve any uncomfortable feelings or misdirected actions that may have arisen during the day. Having done this, our sleep will be peaceful.
Getting up in the morning is Dharma, eating and going to work is Dharma, sleeping is Dharma. By transforming our attitude in the midst of daily activities, our life becomes very meaningful.
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