Buddhism and Management – Balamadana

Good morning Volker and family and all others!

You know, me and Volker, we just have exchanged some words on msn and we have got a little fun about the sex of his baby, and it was enough to make laugh and have a good start for my day.

Well, being a father or parents is a wonderful opportunity to practice patience and uncontaminated LOVE, so, I have found this words from Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, wroten on the book “Transform your Life”. Actually your life Volker is going to be transformed by love and care by themselves.

“…Patience is a mind motivated by a virtuos intention that happily accepts difficulties and harm from others. A person with no patience has no stability of mind and is upset by the slightest obstacle or criticism. In contrast, when we develop real patience, our mind will be as stable as a mountain and as calm as the depths of an ocean. With such a calm, strong mind it will not be difficult to perfect the spiritual realizations fo universal love, great compassion, and bodhichitta.

By thinking skilfully in these ways, we can regard even those who harm or deceive us as our Spiritual Teachers. This is a very important point because it means that everyone can be our Teacher. Whether someone is our Spiritual Teacher or an obstacle to our spiritual progress depends entirely upon our mind. In many ways, those who harm us are the kindest of all because they shatter our complacent view that sees samsara as a pleasure garden, and, like a powerful Spiritual Guide, they inspire us to engage more strongly in spiritual practice. By thinking in this way, we can transform the harm we receive into the spiritual path and, instead of being discouraged, we can learn to cherish even those who harm us. It is specially important to have this attitude towards our close friends and family. Since we spend so much time with them, it would be very beneficial if we were to regard them as pure Spiritual Teachers!”

Volker, your baby will be your great Spiritual Teacher, as everyone else also is. All your obstacles, lack of time, distractions and problems are your real Spiritual Teacher, because if you can apply a positive and virtuos mind whenever you face them, you will be learning and developing your Buddha seeds in yourself.

Practicing contentment we can easy become happier and from that happiness we can help all Living Beings.

Have a lovely weekend

L&K

Marcelo

Good morning Volker and others, I hope all of you are doing well.

Unfortunately we cannot stop this bolg for some reasons, first of all we have been developing some commitements overhere to other, at least I have got a commitment to you and vice-versa.

Secondly, life never ever stop, so how can we stop? But we can imput on it the speed we want to and also establishing our main priorities.

You have just got married, job, carrier, house, cats, friends, goals in life and now meditation. The meditation cannot be perceived as another commitment in your life but should be understanding as a method to help you to hold up all the others commitments you have in your life.

The meditation is a meaningful and special medicine for our problems, difficulties or just to provide to us a state of mind more peaceful and balanced to face our duties and commitments in life.

So, take you time, try to use your meditation to help you not to drepress you. I know sometimes when we start somethink new we want to get into it as deeper as we can. But, that is not the Buddhism message.

The Meditation is to make our happy and bring to us some peace and balaced. If these are not the fruits we are harvesting from it, that means are making mystakes in our practice.

Do you remember when I said: enjoy your Path. Yeah, we need to learn how to enjoy our lifes with all those responsabilities, commitments, pains, sufferings, hord works, happiness, excitations, anxieties, anxiounesses and all phenomena.

Get it easy and you will se the colourful life and way we have received from your karma. Mainly be Patience with yourself, but never stop!

L&K

Marcelo