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Work as a Spiritual Practice:A Practical Buddhist Approach t

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      Richmond, Lewis. Work as a Spiritual Practice: A Practical Buddhist
      Approach to Inner Growth and Satisfaction on the Job. Feb. 1999.
     
      The principles of the Protestant ethic and its message that work is
      good played a role in helping capitalism gain a foothold at the
      start of this century. As the century ends, Richmond's message is
      that we should embrace Buddhist tenets to help transform free-market
      capitalism, "the most dominant system of human commerce," to include
      spiritual as well as material values. Richmond lauds the empowering
      aspects of capitalism and says the free-market system "brings out
      the best" in people. He acknowledges, however, that it sometimes
      also brings out the worst, but that Buddhism can help reconcile this
      contradiction. After Sausalito-based Richmond lost his job as
      executive vice-president for catalog merchandiser Smith & Hawken, he
      started his own company producing inventory-management software. He
      is also an ordained disciple of Buddhist teacher Shunryu Suzuki,
      heads a meditation group, and cofounded the Buddhist Business guild
      of San Francisco. Here he explains what "spiritual practice" is and
      details the four sectors of the "Energy Wheel," showing how "to move
      around and through" conflict, inspiration, accomplishment, and
      stagnation.