Spirituality, Meditation & Business

Business is a human activity and a means to an end, while sprituality and meditation are the vehicle to take you to the sole purpose of our existence, i.e Self realization, and help to understand one's true potential. A better understanding of our being and our True Self, helps gain an equlibrium or equinanimity and peace, which helps to conduct any human activity ( business including ) perfectly and with ease without any internal strife or tension, from a higher level of consciousness. With a Spirituality in life and meditation practice helps one, the Doer ( You) and the Activity ( here Business) it helps them to coalesce in one whole like milk and water, insepreable, yet the Doer does not get attached to the activity ( the Business), even though he is the acitivity incarnate, for the duration he spends time in the activity. The purpose is to stay connected to the perpetual inner stream of Universal Consciousness undeterred by the ups and downs of our daily life activities.

Deb Ranjan Bhattacharya

Meditation Thought

Before the "Chief Referee" blows his whistle, your garden of "being more" has to contain more roses than those in your garden of "having more". In this very awareness rests the key to establish a bridge to towards global peace.

Ray Bhowmik

Online Meditation

Dear friends!

I've just completed some web pages for online meditation. The idea is to show you simple methods, which allow you to meditate without too much formalism, and for whatever reason you do it.

If you are new to meditation, go to Spiritual Living and Meditation, where you will find both an introduction as well as an overview of different approaches.

If you want to do some meditation right away, go to the Meditation Garden.

The pages are still in the "beta" stage - so feedback, suggestions and comments are most welcome.

Thank you!

Dieter

Deepak Chopra's Introduction to Meditation

Spiritual Wisdom

The relation you have to yourself is the first and most important step to freedom. It is when you are centered in yourself that you really can give to others without expectations.

Dharma

Meditation Tip

There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us.

Wayne Dyer

Meditation Thought

Stopping unnecessary mental doing allows the natural state to arise.
Deep stillness always rests under an agitated mind.

Jac O'Keeffe

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Thus, everyone's task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.”

The above quote is from Viktor Frankl.   

So my question is:

What are YOU here to do? What's your specific vocation or mission in life? We all have one. What's yours?

Clear? Write it down! Live it!

Stuck? Write down the question: “What is my specific mission in life?” Then simply write down “My specific mission in life is to …” and let it flow. Don't censor yourself or need it to be “right.” Just write.

Comment here, at Facebook or at LinkedIn

Does God have a future?

Spiritual Wisdom

You will be what you will be;

Let failure find its false content

In that poor word "environment",

But spirit scorns it, and is free.

It masters time, it conquers space

It cows that boastful tricker, Chance,

And bids the tyrant Circumstance

Uncrown, and take a servant's place.

The human Will, that force unseen,

The offspring of a deathless Soul,

Can hew a way to any goal,

Through walls of granite intervene.

Be not impatient in delay,

But wait as one who understands;

When spirit rises and commands,

The gods are ready to obey.

James Allen (As You Think")

Meditation Tip

For penetrating to the depths of one's own true self nature, and for attaining a vitality valid on all occasions, nothing can surpass meditation in the midst of activity.

Hakuin

Meditation Thought

If one does not think about right and wrong,
then the mind is naturally at ease.
If one has no thought of peace of mind,
that is true peace.

Chuang Tzu

Thank You!

First, I'd like to thank you all for your comments to the question " Does spirituality have a place in business?" - for me it was a real inspiring experience!

While most agreed upon the need of spirituality in business (if it is not religious), there were actually only few "real life" examples given. Which leads me to the question: what exactly does it mean to you to life spiritually, both in business as well as in private life, what do you do differently in your day-to-day activities? 

Comment here and/or - if you are on LinkedIn - in one of your groups (or join Personal Leadership on LinkedIn). Alternatively choose from among your favorite social media.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Dieter

Overcoming problems of motivation to meditate

It never fails to shock me.

Because I'm teaching meditation and, perhaps, because of
the anonymity of the Internet, I get these incredibly
heartfelt emails where people share issues that are
deeply personal.

I got one of those the other day and, in part, the writer
said, "Even though I KNOW meditation will help with my
condition, I just can't get the motivation to do it. What
do you recommend?"

Have you ever had that? Where you know you *should* do
something, but find that you don't do it?

Maybe it wasn't with meditation; maybe it was with exercising
or dieting (those were mine).

Either way, what I've discovered about dealing with motivation
will probably surprise you... and, more importantly, may
help you get over that issue.

Check out the post (and leave a comment) at
http://www.AdvancedMeditation.com/blog/motivation/

Spiritual Thought

Ultimately the only answer to the question, "How many?" is "One."

-- Alan Cohen

Meditation Tip

"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."
-Matthew Arnold

Meditation Thought

It's important to remember ... that attachment and avoidance are fundamentally the same psychological movement, since both try to dodge the circumstances that present themselves to us.

--Awake in This Life