Living your life as a spiritual practice. Action without expecting a reward. Practising being in the wide open present in everything we do rather than being trapped in our reactions, we work with our reactions with an attitude of acceptance and letting go.

Hanuman says to Rama: When I meditate and rest in myself I am you; when I act and do things in the world I serve you.

Any work can be done with an attitude of practice. What is being practised in Karma Yoga? Awareness is what is being cultivated and practised in Karma Yoga. We do what needs to be done and we watch the thoughts, attitudes, feelings, sensations as they arise in our bodymind. We take note of them but we come back to the job in hand, the task we are doing; we are present with the task and the people we are working with to complete the task. We act, and we prioritise the job we are doing in the present, we serve everyone and everything through our service. We do our tasks as service and then we work with whatever arises in our bodymind as we do our task; we work with our resistance, our fear, our feelings of shame or worthlessness, our resentment, our joy, our bliss, our peace, our sadness, our visions, our fantasies, our daydreams, our judgements, our inner critic, our jealousy, our envy, our depression, our apathy, our tiredness…

Karma Yoga is mediation in action.

Why do we do this? We do this to realise who we are. As you practise in this way your sense of identity will shift. It will shift from your thoughts, feelings and sensations to being aware. You practice being aware and awareness is where you live in yourself for more and more of the time until you live in awareness all of the time. Living in awareness means that you realise that you are not separate from anything else. Everything else is all you.