Experiencing Business Problems
A student was experiencing business difficulties.
My very dear Tim,
How are you? If, through serving others with a good heart, you lose even your whole business, there is always so much merit gained from that. Even if a lot of money does not result from your efforts, sooner or later you will enjoy the result.
When you work for projects that have greater and deeper benefit for sentient beings, usually obstacles arise. Not every time, but many times. You have to have a lot of merit to be able to offer that service. Otherwise, sentient beings would be able to attain enlightenment very easily, and there wouldn’t be any left by now.
But it is very important work, because it makes your life meaningful. Even though the money didn’t come, because it made your life meaningful, your effort was not wasted.
In the world, in most people’s cases, even though they may be making many billions of dollars, it’s all done for the self and for this life, so everything becomes negative karma. Their whole life becomes negative karma—a cause to reincarnate in the lower realms—besides such a life being meaningless and empty. You can see the big differences between these two lives, this one and the one who is serving sentient beings and the teachings of the Buddha.
With much prayer and love from the Lawudo Mickey Mouse...