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  • #412875
    Lukas
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    hello.

     

    it has been quiet a while, i appricate all your posts and input as it has helped me to reflect.

     

    I have Set my next steps to leave the consumption based Business World.

    And i had a realization while reflecting. I somehow lost my Joy a long the way and with it my light heartedness.

     

    I wonder if anybody of you has some input for me in regards to cultivating Joy…

     

    thank you very much and all the best to everyone

    #410933
    Lukas
    Participant

    Hello Tee,

    yes, they truly are great role models I am truly grateful for them.

    Thank you very much for your kind words, I hope I can achieve this dream, but as mentioned I am already working on a business plan for exactly that, with the foundation being capitalistic – in a sense that its the base for the company to be healthy, to not write red numbers, but do not have it as an ultimate goal, which I currently feel like is the case with the company I am owning a big share of.  I already communicated my intentions to sell everything off and start anew.

    Thank you so much for the link I already checked it out and it seems to be very interesting indeed. Thanks for your blessings, i am sure it will turn out well since it is something I really want to do to plant seeds of transformation for our environment and the way we do business.

    There is a book in german roughly translated to “Lead, shape, move: Values and wisdom for a globalised world” by the dalai lama on ethical business and it inspired me a lot, maybe you can find it as an English translation 🙂

    I am also rooting for you, may whatever you do lead to the well-being and happiness of others and yourself 🙂

    #410930
    Lukas
    Participant

    Hello tee,

    there is some great truth in this I guess. My parents never judged materialistic people, they themselves are very “rich” without living like it, also had friends which were living a very materialistic life.

    But I am sure you are right about the fact that I don’t value outer accomplishments that much, it just doesn’t fulfill me, I think this is the key point – I think I need to make a choice in some sort of way, I don’t want o to impoverish myself, but I want to leave the consumption-oriented business, I think these things are harming our planet and our future livelihood and I can see and feel that this is not in accordance to what I want to be living.

    I think you might be right about that, that I don’t think it goes together, at the same time I agree with you, I know a lot of rich, humble people. BUT I don’t want to be getting rich from selling things, I don’t want to add more to consumption, and I don’t want to exploit resources more, I guess my point of view is more like this:
    Living a capitalistic life and nurturing capitalistic tendencies don’t go together with my concept of not harming other living beings.

    But anyway, thank you a lot for your input it gave me a lot to think about and I think you are right about a lot of things and i have more understanding now to further improve my well-being.

    #410928
    Lukas
    Participant

    Hello Tee,

    thanks for your thought. Of course, this is true, but at the same time, I am very successful, also in a materialistic way.
    But I’d rather not be and move towards a more straightforward, uncomplicated, and “less successful” life, so I am caught between doors and trying to maneuver out of this situation. Which I am, I am working to start something very different.

    I am already there, I am young but I managed to do what most people won’t – to run a multi-million dollar company, but it doesn’t make me happy, there is no value in this, thus I am caught between what I know, and what I know to be, but what is not yet (if that makes sense, I’m not an English native speaker 🙂 ).

    Anyways as mentioned, I feel like I have been making a lot of progress in letting go and at the same time accepting what is there, anger, greed, and ill will and I feel like its ok, its fine to be there, but at the same time I help it being transformed, or I try to 🙂

    #410926
    Lukas
    Participant

    Thank you Roberta, i will try this mediation when I sit the next time and keep on continuing to practice it!
    It sounds like a beautiful practice and you are right, also i don’t really strive for outer accomplishments, most people call me very humble and this sometimes even confuses me more, that there indeed is greed in me, while i mostly don’t live a greedy life. At the same time i have to marvel at my existence with all its manifoldness and I think i am making progress, as mentioned above, to just accept and at the same time appreciate all of these qualities to be great teachers to me, while at the same time not nurturing them further

    #410925
    Lukas
    Participant

    Thank you so much for your thoughtful response anita, I truly value it.

    There is great truth in this and I did just that, I accepted my anger and welcomed it in every mediation to be here with me, to feel free to come and go as it wants, I will continue to do so. At the same time I tried to look deeply into my brothers existence and understand his suffering to gain compassion and understanding, both of these things helped me tremendously already. As a third practice I now ALWAYS hug my brother when I see him and listen to him thoroughly when we talk, to give as much attention as possible in order to not just practice on my cushion, but to also live what I try to practice.

    again, thank you for your reply, thank you for the quotes which help me to understand more deeply and to keep on walking the path 🙂

    Greetings Lukas

    #409867
    Lukas
    Participant

    hello Anita.

     

    its been a long time, i again want to thank you for All your input. i thought i had made some progress, also I stayed away from the Internet for quiet some time..

    I want to apologize for not taking the time to respond before doing so.

    you are very on point with most of your thoughts. my parenrs though never valued anyone more than an other, they are the real Buddhists without knowing, truly beautiful people.

    I will try to read inro the precepts and suttas for advice on how to transform anger, jealousy and greed.

    Surely i will be able to find something there :)!.

    once again Anita, i am sorry and thakful for your time and love.

    #401083
    Lukas
    Participant

    Hello Anita.

    Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.

    My Partner is way better off in the Deal financially, which is fine, He is the Real founder of the Company, He put in a lot of money, but it makes me angry and it makes me feel underappriciated, so i guess the Anger is fueld by my jealousy. Im jealous of him being better of and thus i can never “overtake” him in this regard and will always Stay behind and He will be better of always, this makes me jealous.

    And the underlying Problem seems to be that i cant manage to be happy with what i have – which is plenty. I can manage this in nearly every other Situation but not in this.

    And it really dissapoints me with myself that i am this “unnobel”

     

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