Rip Up The Agenda

One of my friends in the consulting business wrote an insightful article entitled “Throw Away Your Integration Plan.” The friend is John Pancoast of Acquisition Solutions, a firm that helps organizations achieve more effective mergers or acquisitions.

His article was about having the flexibility to know when the plan you drew up before a merger was announced should be abandoned for another course of action based on some unanticipated development.

The main idea makes sense to me. No original plan can anticipate everything that is possible to happen, especially in a multifaceted endeavor like a merger.

Sticking religiously to an a-priori version of the path forward will produce suboptimal results at best and may even be disastrous.

It is not just mergers and acquisitions where we need the flexibility to change a plan based on new information. We deal with the need for flexibility in every area of our lives.

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Be as simple as you can be

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  “Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”

~ Paramahansa Yogananda ~

 Tao & Zen

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Welcome to the samsara little ones (2:49)

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▶ Newly-born Twins Don’t Realize They’ve Been Born Yet! – YouTube.

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Dalai Lama’s guide to happiness (8:06)

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By BMC

“This eight minute epic reveals some incredible insights into human behaviour and values that impact our happiness, particularly in this materialistic Western life so many are living, or reaching for.”

Dalai Lama’s guide to happiness:

The Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules For Living:

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: 1. Respect for self 2. Respect for others 3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t…

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We are in control

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It is important to realize that there is nobody else who can wake us up and save us from samsara. There is no such thing in Buddhism. That may be Buddhism’s biggest drawback, and at the same time its greatest advantage. This view shows us that there is nobody else in control of our lives, our experiences, our freedom or our bondage. Who is responsible? Who is in control? It is us. We are in control. We can bind ourselves further in samsara or we can free ourselves from it right now. It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature of our mind. There is no guru, deity, buddha or bodhisattva out there to look for it for us. Although they would happily do this, it would not help us; it would only help…

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As a bird flies through the sky

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If we allow our thoughts to
arise and dissolve by themselves,
they will pass through our mind
as a bird flies through the sky,
without leaving a trace.

~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche ~

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The intricately structured jewel

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 “There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.”

~ Alan Moore

Meditation Masters

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When you leave this earth

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 Remember that, when you leave this earth,
you can take with you nothing that you have received
— only what you have given.

St. Francis of Assisi

— with Jhimli Chatterjee, Aparupa Chokraborty, Arpita Chatterjee, Dipanita Sen, Shilpi Roy, Fred Weissmann, Emma Emma and Eddel Weissmann.

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Never stop thinking about how to gain liberation

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It is not enough to wish from time to time that you could be free of samsara. That idea must pervade your stream of thinking, day and night. A prisoner locked in jail thinks all the time about different ways of getting free—how he might climb over the walls, ask powerful people to intervene, or raise money to bribe someone. So, too, seeing the suffering and imperfection of samsara, never stop thinking about how to gain liberation, with a deep feeling of renunciation.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpochefrom the book “The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva”
ISBN: 978-1590304570 – http://amzn.to/18Ko0OO

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If the doors of perception were cleansed

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If the doors of perception were cleansed
every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up, till he sees
all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.

William Blake
photo: William Corey

Poetry Gardens

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