It often happens that even professional people are held in some point of their strivings come to a clear understanding that no longer want to deal with its past activities. One is the lost interest, others have realized the harm his profession for themselves or for others. To me at the consultation came literally dozens of people with a plea for help in making a decision to change professions. Somehow, those who formerly work simply ceased to interest, not asked about how they do, and trying to find myself for what interests them, and then quietly dismissed. But those who doubted the usefulness of what he worked all his life, usually not able to take a mature and informed decision on their own. Profession sometimes actually harmful it was for the spiritual seeker, as well as corrupting him, draining his strength and takes too much time. I had to tackle the question whether a follower of the spiritual teachings to be a waiter, a seller of tobacco products to apartment broker, an employee of the FSB (the then KGB), and even an actor.
Incidentally, the actor - it was the rare case in my practice when I took responsibility right to tell people that his profession litsedeya from the spiritual point of view rather harmful than useful for its evolution. He was insulted, but may still be heeded my advice, and things went much better than both. He quickly made a career in advertising agency and led him to stop trying to be what was not. He has freed time and, most importantly, spiritual strength to the study and application of esoteric knowledge.
There are some professional activities, which are absolutely contraindicated spiritual seeker. I am not aware of any spiritual seeker, who would succeed in his chosen path, for example, a salesman of beer or a butcher: you can not climb into the spiritual sphere, odurmanivaya other people and soaking his body and psyche of the gross drunken emanations of beer and bloody smell of meat. In exactly the same can not be esoteric student and a physician at the same time, abortion. One can hardly claim a heavenly wisdom and be a dealer in a casino. And, of course, any kind of criminal business, whether illegal or legal, absolutely incompatible with the high title of spiritual disciple.
If a person has reached a certain level in their worldly activities and careers, and then carried away by spiritual teachings, then he may have other problems - he will hide his interests and occupations from superiors, colleagues and society. Well, if the nature of his work lies outside of ideology and education and is not connected with the need to write articles and publicly promote their views. I have seen major superiors in rank factory directors, managers in ministries and departments in large firms which, for example, were engaged in secret from the other raja yoga practitioners or daoskimi studied Sufi philosophy. Of course, they were right in their obscurity. Practice shows that the true esoteric knowledge must be precisely established. Anyone who advertises it can have big problems with public opinion.
Nevertheless, the strategy of tight man, his self-restraint and caution in principle, allows to combine the leading position and spiritual passions. More difficult for those who, while at the helm, playing a socially meaningful role, is trying to spiritual ideas. At some point it will still have to make a choice: either further external road of success, career, rank, wealth, social comfort, or spiritual path. Not necessarily that the man chose the latter, will be expelled with ignominy from work, is doomed to poverty, and before it will close the doors of all decent homes. It is possible that he could maintain a tolerable existence, but the road to the top of social success and power he will be ordered. The more a person has achieved in the external terms of life, the more difficult choice, which he will do.
But, of course, have always addressed man himself. Not so long ago I met a friend sociologist, lived in political circles and has a good earnings. He told me that he had made a firm decision to resign from his job to another, not by direct specialization and less troublesome, where he will receive a five (!) Times smaller, and explained its intention that it will give him free time to Loved to read the ancient Chinese philosophers, meditate and do Tai Chi. "It's much more interesting than to run among the monsters, and knock off the money" - confessed to a sociologist, I opened a new, unexpected directions.
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