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Article #121: The Diamond Cutter

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Geshe Michael Roach is a Princeton business. Successful business people have
graduate and a Buddhist monk. After the resources to do more good in the
graduation, he spent seven years studying world than those people without the same
the wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism. At the resources do. In addition, the very
suggestion of his teacher, he joined a people who are attracted to business are
fledgling diamond business in New York to the same people who have the strength to
test his ideals in real life. He stayed grasp and carry out the deeper practices
with the business as a member of the core of the spirit.
management team for seventeen years. Money should be made honestly and with
The company grew from a start-up with two absolute integrity. How we make money
owners and two employees to $100 million matters more than anything else does. It
in sales and five hundred employees in determines our ability to keep making
offices around the world. The Diamond money as nobody can indefinitely run a
Cutter: The Buddha on Strategies for business built on dishonesty or
Managing Your Business and Your Life deception. It also significantly affects
tells the story of how Geshe Michael our ability to enjoy the money we make.
Roach built the diamond division of this Nothing is good or bad in and of itself;
company, using principles culled from everything has a hidden potential. This
ancient Tibetan Buddhism as the driving is what the Buddhists call emptiness.
force behind his decision making. What is bad news for you may be good news
Drawing on lessons he learned in the for someone else, and vice versa. We must
diamond business and years in Buddhist not leap to conclusions about events, but
monasteries, Roach shows how taking care must stop to consider what potential they
of others is the ultimate path to taking really have for us. Even competitors can
care of oneself, even--especially--in be seen as fairy godmothers challenging
business. As he puts it, you have to us to find the correct path to greater
engage in "mental gardening," which means accomplishment. It is a matter of
doing certain practical things that will perception. With the right state of mind,
form new habits that will create an ideal we can turn our problems into
reality for you. If this sounds a little opportunities.
outrageous, his very precise instructions We should look ahead to the inevitable
are down to earth and address numerous end of our days in business, and put
specific issues common to the business ourselves in a position where we can
management world. Through this practice, honestly say our years in business had
you will become a considerate, generous, some meaning. The idea here is to
introspective, creative person of immense anticipate our future, and move in a
integrity, and that will be the key to direction that will allow us to look back
your wealth... A on our past with total joy and
Some of the many insights in The Diamond satisfaction.
Cutter are as follows: The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on
A business should be successful; it Strategies for Managing Your Business and
should make money. There is no conflict Your Life by Geshe Michael Roach (Author)
between spirituality and success in List Price: $23.






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