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The Entrepreneur & The Zen Master

August 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

What are the skills that would be required if you were the ultimate entrepreneur?
What would be the difference between an entrepreneur and a Zen Master?

The ultimate entrepreneur would not only have the business skills, they would be able to see beyond the surface, beyond illusion to the truth.

The truth is revealed when you can read the energy patterns. Another step up from that is when you can influence change or control the energy patterns. Not to manipulate anyone, not to hurt anyone, but focussed on the highest good of all concerned. That’s the ultimate win-win.

However, before you learn to honour anyone else, you have to learn to honour yourself. So many people are out there to end poverty and change the world, but where’s the last place the want to go? Inside themselves.

For me, it’s not the lack of knowledge or business skills that hold us back and sabotage us. It’s our own negative thinking, negative attitudes, limiting beliefs and our past programming. Or, the way I would put it, our learned limitations.

To become who we truly are, we must be able to discern, to tell the difference between our essence, who we really are, what we’re here to do, what’s important to us, and our programming.

For me, there’s a triangle, and the triangle is healing transformation,   intuition/creativity/innovation and entrepreneurship:

All three are required and there’s another word that some people use, although not everyone, and that’s spirituality. A lot of people who are very spiritual would never use that word. For me, it doesn’t matter what the word is, for me it’s about how a person acts, how they deal with their life and deal with energy.

For me it’s all about authenticity. True strength comes from vulnerability. There is authenticity and integrity and there are two other parts…. You know in many religions and cultures it’s all about transcending the body. It’s very interesting but did you know that for the Hawaiians and Maori’s it’s not about going up, it’s about grounding yourself, being in the body, on the earth.  Being fully grounded.  It’s a very different approach.

It’s about being connected to source, your intuition, being grounded physically in your body and being real.

Tags: Entrepreneurship

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  • 1 Dave // Aug 30, 2007 at 8:27 pm

    I wondered at the analogy of the Zen Master at first but then, thinking back to a Zen Master I met at a summer school, Imgard Schlogel, I made the connection. I remember her as being VERY matter of fact. Very grounded. Other stories I read at that time, referred to the ‘empty mirror’ which reflects truth without being disturbed (like water) by waves of emotions and uncontrolled thoughts.

    It’s probably true, some great business people have attained their stature because of their clarity of mind and ‘one pointedness’.

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