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>>9460264

>Why can't I just take it easy?

You can still take it easy even if you have a job. The Buddha's Simile of the Saw helped me a lot when I had to get a job.

>"Monks, even if bandits were to carve you up savagely, limb by limb, with a two-handled saw, he among you who let his heart get angered even at that would not be doing my bidding. Even then you should train yourselves: 'Our minds will be unaffected and we will say no evil words. We will remain sympathetic, with a mind of good will, and with no inner hate. We will keep pervading these people with an awareness imbued with good will and, beginning with them, we will keep pervading the all-encompassing world with an awareness imbued with good will — abundant, expansive, immeasurable, free from hostility, free from ill will.' That's how you should train yourselves."
>"Monks, if you attend constantly to this admonition on the simile of the saw, do you see any aspects of speech, slight or gross, that you could not endure?"

If the monks were capable of feeling calm, happy, and unaffected as they were carved apart then you can also feel these things during the torture of work.

A real world example of this is Thich Quang Duc. He burned himself to death in public and throughout the entire ordeal he sat calm and perfectly still until he eventually burned to death. If he can remain calm and at peace during such a thing then you can do the same during a job.