Labor Day

This morning I hear a cricket outside last week it was a cicada off in the distant trees.
At one time in the United States children worked alongside adults in factories and mines. That started to change in 1832.
Groups of people united to change the way we were treated at work. Those unions of people have pretty much disappeared since Ronald Reagan fired Federal Employees for standing their ground.
Ronald Reagan pretty much learned how to treat people from the movie industry where people were moved around by Directors who worked for Producers.
Workers unions helped organize health benefits and retirement plans for their employees - that has pretty much disappeared.
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It is early Monday morning and my life has been very physical.
In the past I have been moved rock as in a chain gang. The work made my muscles sore.
Hard work drives out the time to ponder and to muse.
That is something I learned at Tolstoy Farm and Morningstar Commune; I learned that work is part of life and part of the ability to survive. Being paid to work is a bonus. Work has nothing to do with society; it is strictly a personal thing; society benefits from my work.
I grew up thinking that a human being had to work nine to five jobs and that if you did not work for society you were a slacker. That thought is pushed into the minds of human beings in our society and creates a false sense of moral values of doers and slackers.
The world has learned to abuse the ability of work by creating slaves to do their work; causing me to think that work is part of the evil when in realty it is the man that controls the slave that is evil; not the work.
Where ever you find a group of men working as slaves you always see a few men that are content with their lives and you wonder why.
I know why now.
Yes we must free man from slavery; not free man from work; pounding rock is not evil.
We should also free man from the propaganda implanted in the brain about work.
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"Carrying water and chopping wood are the activities of the Buddha,"
"The everyday mind is Buddha," are two of the most well known Zen sayings.