For some, work is only a means to earn a living. The purpose of working is to make money to support their daily needs. When they think in such a way, their minds aren’t oriented toward service but toward making money for themselves. They’re not happy when working since it’s something they do because they have to, in order to support themselves. The work is a chore and it becomes tiring. It’s not something they do willingly.

According to Buddhism, ignorance is a primordial force that afflicts us all. In Buddhist scriptures, it is referred to by the Sanskrit term avidyā (Pāli: avijjā), combing the root vid, which means to “see, know, perceive or understand,” with the negation a, resulting in the opposite meaning. 

An ignorant thought can easily lead to worries and afflictions. Such worries and afflictions may seem tiny and subtle at first, but they can accumulate like specks of sand growing into a desert, and obscure our innate pure nature […]

During the first teaching that Shakyamuni Buddha gave after his enlightenment, he presented the Four Noble Truths, the fourth being The Path to the Cessation of Suffering, called the Noble Eightfold Path.