As it is
May 19, 2008
“In this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will serve others”
These are the words of Chogyam Trungpa.
We don’t have to wait until we are smarter or slimmer or more enlightened, until we complete our degree or take that workshop or buy a car or start re-cycling.
We can begin now in the world just as it is, just as we are.
We can once again or perhaps for the first time consider our basic human goodness, the divinity in each human being.
All of us slip into periods of self-doubt and self loathing, a sloth with which I am familiar.
All our emotional turbulence comes from a disconnection with the reality of our own basic goodness.
The flame of goodness dwells within you, give it some oxygen, breath into it.
***** the picture shows Chogyam Trunpka in western dress on the right, with Dilgo Khyenste/
Do you “engage” your employees?
May 12, 2008
How do you get your employees to really “buy in” to their work and passionately “join the team” all the way?
As the picture above suggests, success is often built, piece by piece, by an engaged group of workers.
The delightfully-named David Zinger has a 39 page ebook with 300 zen like suggestions on increasing the engagement of your team members. Click here to download this ebook.
Energy? Being fully engaged in something you believe in — there’s energy there!
Start Again
May 8, 2008
Start Again!
It is simple!
Easy? No, simple.
Simply sit and concentrate on your bare breath,
say your wasifa 1001 times,
count your beads,
every morning clear your mind,
pray that you will be filled with light,
that you will not be consumed with
hurrying to met deadlines,
bills that cannot be paid,
children who cannot be helped,
the hardness that comes of pity,
of feeling less than,
the worry of a wasted life, the frustration,
the search for the big fix.
The anger, the memories of doing and not doing.
We have done those things which we ought not to have done,
and left undone those things which we ought to have done,
Is there any health in us?
start again
the fear the lurks just below the surface…….where did I put those keys…..
start again.
how can I be a good person if I cannot help the aged, the young, even myself?
start again
Get up every morning and
start again
chose your discipline and do it.
Just do it!
If you miss doing it for a week, a year, a decade, a day
start again.
“Come, come, whoever you are,
no matter how many times you’ve broken your vows,
come,
come again”
start again
“it doesn’t matter how many times you fall down, it’s how many times you get up”
start again
if the Hindus are right I’ll have to do this again,
if the Christians are right I’m on my way to hell,
if the Buddist’s are right it’s all an illusion,
if the Sufis are right there is only heaven,
open your heart and close your mouth,
close your heart and open your mouth,
close your heart close your mouth,
open your heart and open your mouth……
start again.
Today is a new day. Too big? how about, this is a new minute?
Can I negotiate with God, spirit, the light, the prophet, self pity?
Just as you are,
no matter how many times you have broken your vows,…..
start, start again.
