#selfless action

“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.” - Shunryu Suzuki

Tao Te Ching, ch.7

No man is to be judged by the mere nature of his duties, but all should be judged by the manner and the spirit in which they perform them. Swami Vivekananda from Karma Yoga: the path of selfless action.

In the field of action desire takes many forms, but the most powerful of all is the vital self's craving or seeking after the fruit of our works. The fruit we covet may be a reward of internal pleasure; it may be the accomplishment of some preferred idea or some cherished will or the satisfaction of the egostic emotions, or else the pride if success of our highest hopes and ambitions. Or or may be an external reward, a recompense entirely material, - wealth, position, honour, victory, good fortune or any other fulfilment of vital or physical desire. But all alike are lures by which egoism holds us. Always these satisfactions delude us with the sense of mastery and the idea of freedom, while really we are harnessed and guided or riden and whipped by some gross or subtle, some noble or ignoble, figure of the blind Desire that drives the world. Therefore the first rule of action laid down by the Gita is to do the work that should be done without any desire for the fruit, niṣkāmakarma. Sri Aurobindo, from The Synthesis of Yoga.

Idk about y'all but this episode really put me in my feelings. If there's any Rick and Morty fans, Rick is known to be a selfish super genius scientist that cared mainly about himself, but to me he proved he actually cared about his family when he turned himself into custody for doing illegal revolutionary stuff with the Bird Man. After I saw this episode, I just stared at the t.v after I turned it off and just went to bed. I hope he gets rescued by his family 🙏🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯😫😫😫😫😩😩😩😩

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