Z.B.A. Zen of Business Administration
CONTENTS
Introduction xv
WE ARE ALL ZEN STUDENTS, WE ARE ALL BUSINESSPEOPLE
We Are All Zen Students, We Are All Businesspeople 5
Start Where You Are 13
Serenity Is Not Freedom from the Storm but Peace within the Storm 21
The Benefits of Integrating Zen Practice with Your Work 25
Unfreezing Your World 31
Work: The Impossible Request 35
Our Happiness and Freedom Are Right Here, Right Now 39
Before Awakening, Work Is Just Work;
After Awakening, Work Is Just Work 43
The First Thing, the Most Important Thing 49
That Darn Tail 53
WALKING THE PATH
Walking the Path 59
Uncovering Your Approach: Right View 63
What Are You Thinking? Right Thinking 71
Paying Attention: Right Mindfulness 77
It’s What You Say: Right Speech 83
It’s What You Do: Right Action 89
It’s Your Work: Right Livelihood 93
Staying with It: Right Diligence 97
Staying Focused: Right Concentration 101
WISDOM: YOUR ORDINARY MIND IS THE PATH
Generosity 109
Ethical Conduct 113
Patience 117
Energy and Zeal 121
Meditation: Letting Go of Everything 125
Wisdom: Your Ordinary Mind Is the Path 131
LISTENING TO YOUR CLEAR, QUIET VOICE
Run Your Business and Your Life
Like a Zen Monastery Kitchen 137
Impermanence 143
Listening to Your Clear, Quiet Voice 147
Radical View of Life, Radical View of Business 151
Accomplishing More by Doing Less 155
The Power of Intention 159
What Do You Want? What Do You Have to Do to Get It? Can You Pay the Price? 163
No Other Truth 167
Taking the Busyness Out of Business 171
Having a Teacher or Mentor 175
Interdependence 179
Success Is Highly Overrated 183
Tenacity 189
Let Cash Be Your King, but Let Flexibility Be Your God 193
YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
Be Mindful of the Needs You Meet 199
Radical Listening 203
Appreciating Uncertainty 207
Sit-Down Comedy: Humor at Work 211
Embracing Our Stories 215
Woo Hoo, I Feel Really Dumb 219
Not You, Not Your Problems 223
You Can Change the World 225
If It’s Not Paradoxical, It’s Not True! 229
Act as Though You Know What You Are Doing 233
Epilogue 237
Nine Practices for Being More in Connection with Yourself While at Work 241
The ZBA Manifesto 243
Recommended Reading 247
Acknowledgments 251
Index 255
About the Author 267