A Mason's Work

• The Bhagavad Gita teaches detachment from success and failure.
• Masonic labor is symbolic—not for reward, but for refinement.
• Identity must be separated from outcomes to sustain real growth.
• Bhagavad Gita 2.48 https://www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/2/verse/48

This is really instructive for us as Mason's because it helps us understand that what we're really doing is cultivating our behavior in a way that allows us to shape the probability of outcomes by shaping the behavior that we execute. — [00:02:39]
We stop getting focused so much so on this sort of perilous attachment model to outcomes. — [00:03:40]
As we move to higher virtue work, higher ways of working, we get to a point where the execution of the work becomes the value itself. — [00:04:00]
This helps us demystify some of the things with like the hustle grind culture or the kind of magic pill solutions as well. — [00:04:45]

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