The Karma of Phil Stutz

Phil Stutz (of Stutz fame) is reminding us of a perennial truth that a Sakyan aristocrat points out to his brother, as recorded in an early Buddhist text: there is no end to work. It is what life entails. Work, like impermanence and suffering according to the Buddha, and uncertainty and pain according to Stutz, is inherent to existence. The sooner we come to be at peace with that idea, the easier it is for us to look into other, more important matters—such as, the kind of work we do engage in.

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