This is a sample job description for a yogi. Currently there are many unfilled positions for yogis, bodhisattvas and buddhas. Please email sentientbeings@suffering.org for a job application.
Yogi Job Responsibilities:
Dedicates one’s entire life for the benefit of living beings in order to discover the causes of suffering and happiness. To make direct observations about the nature of reality and report back to the public. Greater responsibilities dependent upon levels of realisation.
Yogi Job Duties:
- Reports to his or her chosen guru.
- Accomplishes single-pointed concentration (shamatha) in order to make reliable and accurate observations of the mind.
- Applies the single-pointed concentration to gain irreversible insights into the nature of reality.
- Maintains the precepts that he or she has undertaken, these could be lay precepts or monastic precepts.
- To renounce the eight mundane concerns.
- To move lucidly through the waking, sleeping, dying and rebirth processes.
- Offers prayers of supplications, prostrations and mandalas.
- Equalises self and other.
Yogi Skills and Qualifications:
Be physiologically and mentally fit. The ideal candidate would have achieved shamatha or be dedicating time to achieving it. It is a requirement to have aspiring bodhichitta.
I’d like to apply. Unlike most job positions, I don’t expect set working hours or a set office location, this is mainly because I have already seen through the constructs of time and space 😉