Feeling connected - inner networking

Loneliness haunts the XXI century. Why?

People have lost their centre, they have lost connection with themselves and nature and as a result their heart has closed.

A closed heart has place for noone, thus the feeling of loneliness.

An open heart embraces everyone, and so you develop a feeling of belonging. You are connected... with life, with the universe.

And a feeling of happiness fills and overcomes you. That is BLISS.

A strong ego may free us or enslave us

Freedom is victory. Victory over ourselves, not others.

Freedom is hard to attain, and the only way is to work at it from the inside-out.
Freedom is an inner quest, not an outer battle.
To win we need  help, from ourselves and from others.

The inside help is our ego. A strong ego can be a wonderful tool if we know how to use it with the correct motivation. A strong ego will give us discipline and self-confidence to overcome our main obstacle to find freedom: laziness.

This inner quest for freedom has two major goals. They are inseparable, intertwined, different but as one, like two sides of the same coin:
1) empty the mind - this way we become free of ourselves: free of the limits, boundaries imposed by our own concepts and negative emotions; they trap us inside our own mind, it is like living in a box;
2) open the heart - this way we become free of others: the only way to become free of others is to love them unconditionally: "I love you" means "I set you free".

These achievements build on each other: as you empty your mind your heart opens, and as you open your heart, your mind expands.

What is a correct motivation?
A very basic one (universal really) is to be happy, without harming others.

Why Conflicts arise?

To put it in a simple way, we have two dimensions: the body (that follows a physical law) and the mind (that follows an emotional law).

These laws work in opposite ways, but we dont realize this. And it is due to this ignorance that we suffer and conflicts arise, at different levels: family, organisations, nations.

Body and mind have needs, but the way we deal with them have to be different.

To feel happy, body and mind need to be fulfilled in opposite ways:

The body needs to receive energy through food, breathing and sleep. The focus is on receiving, if the body is to survive.

But at the mental/emotional dimension it works the opposite way.
We also need energy to fell happy emotionally.And this energy is Love.
The only way to feel love is by giving it.
Giving love is the way to receive the energy we need to nourish ourselves, mentally / emotionally.

To survive we receive: energy - food, breath, sleep (physical law).
To live we give: energy - love (emotional law).

"All we need is love", we know that. The problem is how to get love.

Because we believe body and mind work the same way, we think to feel happy is to be loved by others. In other words, to fell/be happy we need to receive energy from others.  And this ignorance of the emotional laws gives rise to conflicts, power struggles or control dramas as we go about life taking energy from others.

According to Redfield, "this process of psychological domination can be observed everywhere, and it is the underlying source of all irrational conflict in the human world, from the level of individuals and families all the way to cultures and nations".

These "control dramas" fall along a continuum ranging from very passive to very aggressive. All humans tend toward one of the four “control dramas” (or energy struggles):

›   Victims make us feel guilty and responsible for them.
›  Aloof people attract attention (and energy) to themselves by acting reserved or withdrawing.
›  Interrogators steal it by judging and questioning.
›  Intimidators steal energy from others by threat.

 

Spiritual Leadership in Business

A new global leadership paradigm is gradually emerging:  spiritual leadership.

A spiritual approach to leadership is presented by merging inner wisdom with business wisdom:  a leader's inner perspective on the purpose of life and leadership is the foundation for decisions and actions in the outer world of business.

Empirical research based on interviews with 31 top leaders from 15 countries in six continents demonstrates that "leaders can obtain happiness, respect, peace of mind and success, while at the same time serving the needs of all those affected by their leadership when they lead from a spiritual basis.

It also indicates that spirituality can serve as the foundation for leadership that considers ethics, social responsibility and concern for the environment not just as instruments to protect corporate reputation and income generation but as fundamental principles and values in their own right".

Source:

Peter Pruzan, Dr. Polit. & Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. E-mail:pruzan@cbs.dk

Happiness and Success

To be happy in life and successful in business you need two things in life:

1) empty mind, to have vision (freedom to choose), and

2) open heart, to have self-confidence (the power to decide).

Thoughts give us a full mind (confusion, ignorance). A full mind causes blindness (limits - we are in a box), we lack vision, so we dont really have "freedom to choose".

Emotions make our heart close. A closed heart causes weakness, we lack self-esteem, and so we dont have power to decide.

Creativity and Emptiness

The best creative mind is empty - anything can happen: there are no limits, everything is possible.

 

A mind full of ideas/concepts is limited by those same ideas/concepts - it is trapped in a box.

Think "outside-the-box":  the best way to think (create) is not to think.

 

Emptiness is full of potential. Emptiness is freedom.

 

Absolute freedom to create.

Is Free Will God’s Greatest Gift?

I believe so because I believe we are made in God's image. By this I mean we have the same nature: emptiness. And in emptiness we find unlimited potential, unlimited power.

We have in us unlimited potential but for that we need to unleash our true nature (emprisoned by our ego).

We have to let go of our temporary self (ego) to find our inner self (the true self, "the Kingdom of God").

To manifest our true nature, we need to transform body and mind:

1) we need to open our heart, to manifest our unconditional love. This means we have in us the potential to become omnipresent.

2) we need to empty our mind, to manifest our infinite wisdom. This means we have in us the potential to become omniscient.

Free Will is God's greatest gift.

Free will is omnipotence, the union of:

# freedom to choose, granted by an empty mind (infinite wisdom), and

# power to decide, granted by an open heart (unconditional love).

Only our inner self has the answer to all our problems.

So start the journey of your life, within yourself.
Within yourself you will unveil all the misteries of the universe.

How free is our "free will"?

As explained in previous posts, we are blind and weak (in different degrees).

Our mind is blind because it is limited by our thoughts, concepts, truths. So we limite ourselves, we shorten our own possibilities, we decrease our freedom to choose.

Knowledge is not wisdom.
Knowledge can either be a key to unlock our mind (and give us vision, wisdom) or a lock to close it (and give us confusion, ignorance).

Our heart is weak because it is ruled by our negative emotions (mainly anger and attachment). They close our heart and drain our power to decide.

So free will is the union of
(1) freedom to choose (given by an empty mind - emptiness), and
(2) power to decide (given by an open heart - love)

Ø  Empty Mind is Infinite Wisdom.
Ø  Open Heart is Unconditional Love.

 

 

Can we transform ourselves in entrepreneurs / innovators?

I believe we can. Inner transformation is possible.

 

For that you need to develop two qualities:

Ø  Empty mind, to unleash clarity, vision (freedom to choose);

Ø  Open heart, to unleash strenght, decision (the power to decide).

Mainly, you have to let go of:

1) thoughts - everything you believe in (truths, concepts, structures, systems) and

2) emotions  (anger, attachment, ignorance).

Thoughts produce a full mind (it causes blindness - mental blindness).
Emotions produce a closed heart (it causes weakness).

Blindness because we are ignorant (a full mind is a limited mind): we look but we don’t see.

Weakness, because we are ruled by desire, we are slaves of anger and attachment.
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Lean Thinking is sustained by Inner Thinking

Lean entrepreneurship is essentially another form of management (management of start-ups).

Lean intrapreneurship is another form of innovation (lean innovation).

That is, the lean entrepreneur/innovator applies a different type of management style that recognizes:

·         the uncertainty of the process of taking a new idea into the market, and

·         the need to change and adapt and develop a stream of constant innovation within the start-up / existing company.

To be able to deal with uncertainty you need an “EMPTY MIND” – vision (freedom to choose).

To be able to change and adapt you need na “OPEN HEART” – strength (power to decide).

“Until you know everything in life,
all you can do to make life clear is to decide”.

Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist Master

 

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