Karma

यत्करोषि यदश्नासि यज्जुहोषि ददासि यत्
यत्तपस्यसि कौन्तेय तत्कुरुष्व मदर्पणम्

Whatever you do,
whatever you eat,
whatever you offer in sacrifice,
whatever you give away,
and whatever austerity you perform,
do that as an offering to Me. -Bhagavad Gita 9.27

Karma Yoga is selfless action. The Bhagavad Gita being a treatise primary on Warrior Yoga emphasises that Bhakti-Karma be performed as a means of dharma. While I am not a warrior and neither are most people, the idea of Karma Yoga is to perform action without attachment, ego or to the fruits of the action.

The basis of any task then is the question: Is what I am doing selfish?

This question is pretty significant as most everything we do is selfish. Even those things we don’t want to do are selfish: I have a task I like and a task I don’t like. I like to code, I don’t like to clean the toilet. The way forward is to just have a routine and do the task whether you like it or not.

So, Karma Yoga is a form of meditation. You continuously bring the mind back to the task at hand.

However, I think the cheat code that Krishna gave in the Gita is to do your dharma. While we don't have prescribed dharma like Arjuna, we do have a path that we may eventually follow. This path is the dharma that we should be doing, even the boring parts.

• Family. Serve my family.
• Cooking. Cooking is a way to serve my family and friends.
• Gardening. Gardening is a way to serve my family and as a form of worship.
• Community. Serve my community with various methods.
• Business. Build products and services with others.