Will I Ever Go Back to Talking About Business?

Originally posted on Business Zen 2.0

Maybe, maybe not. What we do know is that everything is impermanent. Right now what we know is my ego is softening a bit so I’ll go with the flow and just write about it. We also know that this understanding is not only Buddhist in nature but the nature of life as well as the nature of Business. I’m sure you will see the connection.

Lately I have been able to relate to the image to the left, it’s a batik of the assault of Mara on Buddha as he meditated under the Bohdi tree. My own practice has been full of assaults, my ego assaults as well as life and suffering make assaults. Although, I am just starting to awaken to an understanding, there is a glimmer of an understanding there.

The beauty of my recent commitment to a Sangha is the community and the Dharma that is expressed weekly, in my case it’s Robert Beatty @ Portland Insight Meditation Center. The notion taught this past weekend was on Anicha, or that which arises will pass; otherwise known as the impermanence of things. It’s been on my mind, it’s been observed, it’s been shunned and it’s been embraced; all in the same moment. Then it opened the way to a small moment of presence.

Surely we can see why this is important but then I started to think about it in relation to what my ego gets hit with and how it can be stopped from adding one more layer by understanding that what causes the layer will pass.

In business, it’s become a huge concept to me. When stressed or when my ego wants to get in the way and lash out at someone, the concept of Anicha just pops up and things soften. This is where the business comes in and how another concept of Buddhism can be applied. In business we often make too slow a decision or too quick, we shoot from the hip or we just get it done. Much could be said for allowing all or part of a problem to just pass. Nine times out of ten it wasn’t a problem but a perceived problem.

Anicha….impermanence

Oh and this is what made me think of the invading demons of Mara:

COUNTY CASCADES.AND CASCADE FOOTHILLS…

A SNOW ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON.

SNOW SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TODAY AS COLD ARCTIC AIR INVADES
SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHWESTERN OREGON. THE HEAVIEST
SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING HOURS…WITH SHOWERS TAPERING
OFF THIS EVENING.

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