You want a successful career and a happy life,

But at the same time, your intuition clearly tells you,

Life without spiritual connotation is meaningless.

You want to be a millionaire and be able to meditate.

In fact,

If you want to be truly successful in your career,

You must have some insights from your spiritual life-

You can have your cake and eat it.

In this chapter, we are going to talk about the potential of everything.

It is called "emptiness" in Buddhism.

But don't guess what is empty yet,

Don't be bothered by this strange name.

The meaning of this word is completely different from its literal meaning;

This is the secret of any success.

We explain the meaning of "emptiness" from an amazing conversation between Buddha and disciple Xu Bodhi.

We can understand the dialogue between Buddha and Bodhi in this way-

The main idea here, that is, the key to understanding the hidden potential of everything,

You can call this book a book,

You can also understand it as a book, precisely because it can never be a book. "

This sentence has a very specific meaning;

This is nothing mysterious.

It contains all the knowledge you need to succeed in your career and life.

Let's give an example that we often encounter in business to illustrate the concept of this potential.

This is an example of real estate.

When valium started,

We rented one or two offices in the larger office area of a jewelry company near the Empire State Building.

The boss Ophir and Aya are sitting in a small room;

In the larger office cubicle next door,

Wu Di (diamond inspector), Alex (jewelry designer), Shirley (computer operator) and

I sat around a big table.

On the other side of the table is the diamond inspection area.

One corner is the computer accounting area, and the other corner is my telephone area.

Our entire product line has about fifteen rings.

We often work until midnight.

Later, business continued to develop.

We took risks and opened our own factory;

This is a house on the streets of Manhattan.

On the rough concrete floor, a huge iron fence stands.

For the first time, we have a real vault.

After about half a year, we had to consider moving the factory again.

Are we moving to the diamond district?

If we rent a big venue, but the order is reduced,

So what should we do?

On the other hand, if we rent a small venue,

But we have received a big order. How do we deliver the goods?

So we made a compromise decision:

We rented half a floor in an old building outside the diamond area.

So, we rented a bigger venue,

And reduced the rent.

I'm sitting alone in the office of the diamond department (in fact, it's just a small room)

Sometimes I also work part-time in the "system department" (also a small room and a lounge);

Sometimes I go to the vault to work. The vault is small and can only hold two people.

The workshop is very big, but only one polisher sits alone in the corner.

In nearly a year, our sales have doubled.

And it will double almost every year in the next decade.

As a result, our narrow space has become an obstacle to the growth of our company.

When we don't have enough space,

We naturally rented the other half of the floor.

Later, the employees on this floor only had 20 inches of office space each.

So we rented another floor and connected the two floors with stairs.

The employees on the second floor are 20 inches wide each.

So we rented another floor—

But there are two floors between this floor and the existing floor.

When we need to expand again,

There are no vacant floors in this building.

We had to rent a floor in a building far away from our two buildings;

At this time, we are faced with an embarrassing situation:

In order to cooperate with sorting rooms in two buildings,

We have to carry bags of diamonds or other precious stones between two office buildings in the street.

It's dangerous to do this. As the diamond area expands into our region,

Our rent is also rising.

At this time, our company has already had millions of annual sales.

And there are about one hundred employees;

So we must find a suitable place for the company.

So we went back to the real estate issue,

And the hidden potential of things.

What does this have to do with real estate?

How can this reveal "hidden potential"?

After years of struggling between leasing or buying, expanding or maintaining the status quo,

Finally, consider buying a house;

You can imagine what questions we will ask ourselves at this time.

Should we take this big step?

At such times, businessmen will estimate the pros and cons:

The new building can leave a good impression on customers.

And it will make customers and suppliers feel that we have strength.

However, they may also think that we are "punching our faces to be fat"—

Maybe customers will worry that we will raise the price because of the higher cost;

Maybe the suppliers will think that the price they gave me in the past is too low.

It was they who sacrificed their own interests that made us buy a new building.

Maybe moving out of the diamond district will make business difficult,

It will cause greater difficulties and risks for gem suppliers to deliver goods to us.

But maybe the money we save on rent will make us bid higher for suppliers.

This will also attract more middlemen,

Make more money.

Maybe the new office is not convenient for employees to go to work-

Many people take the subway for half an hour, which will make our excellent employees leave the company.

Find a new job near the diamond district.

However, our employees may like the quiet atmosphere in the new office.

There are specialty stores and restaurants with higher cost performance than the original office area.

Maybe the value of the new building will soar after we move.

Greatly increase the return on investment of the owners.

But perhaps new york's real estate will experience another sudden decline.

We still have to pay off the high mortgage.

Maybe all the production processes are completed in one building,

This enables us to lower the price and make a big profit in the market.

However, we can also try to maintain a large production plant-

Even in the off-season, we must maintain it-make ends meet and gradually die out.

If you have been in business for a long time,

So realistically speaking,

You must know that anything can happen in this situation:

If you buy a building and everything goes as you wish, then you are a genius-

You made a wise deal;

But if you buy a building and the company loses money,

Then you are an adventurous fool;

If you don't buy a house, the company will run smoothly.

Or you don't buy a house, but the company loses money-

Then you don't know what people will call you.

But anyway, you know:

You're still the same.

In this way, we slowly and firmly entered the link of explaining the hidden potential of things.

Like Anding International's real estate decision to buy a nine-story building on the west side of Manhattan,

This is a good example of the hidden potential of everything.

This potential is also called "emptiness" in Buddhism.

Here's a key idea:

In this building, or in the matter of buying a building,

All kinds of hidden potentials, good or bad, exist at the same time.

If we buy a house and the house price in new york suddenly drops,

Then buying a house is a bad thing for the owner.

If we buy a building, all the managers will suddenly have more office space than before.

Then buying a house is a good thing for the manager.

If we buy a building, all employees from New Jersey will spend more than half an hour on the road every day.

Then for them, this is a bad thing.

But for employees from Brooklyn, it's a good thing-

Because the new office building location saves their commuting time.

If we buy a building and make the supplier think that we have strong economic strength,

Then this is a good thing for us.

But if we buy a building and make our suppliers feel that doing business with us is a loss,

Then this is a bad thing for us.

If we remove the words "for us" or "for them",

What will this mean?

We can judge the building itself,

Or is buying a house itself good or bad?

As long as you think about it a little, you will know,

Buying a house itself is neither a good thing nor a bad thing.

It all depends on who is watching.

For those who benefit from it,

Looks like a good thing;

For those who are hurt by it,

This seems like a bad thing.

However, buying a house itself is not fixed.

It doesn't have this quality itself,

It is empty and has no such quality.

This is the exact meaning of emptiness:

Things have different possibilities,

The building itself has no inherent characteristics,

All its characteristics depend on how we look at it.

This is the hidden potential of things.

The dentist will give you root canal treatment,

Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

There is no fixed good or bad in this painful treatment itself:

If we put aside people's different perspectives,

Then it itself has no such characteristics;

It's neutral,

Or it is blank, empty.

In short, it is "empty".

According to the most profound classics of ancient Buddhist wisdom,

Its emptiness is its hidden ultimate potential.

People around you-including colleagues who annoy you the most,

This person will be kind to another colleague or family member who likes him.

Does it exude "annoying qualities"?

This person doesn't have such qualities,

Otherwise, he will automatically show it to others.

This person is like a blank screen,

Is neutral, different people will see different qualities in him.

This is a simple and rigorous proof of emptiness or potential.

Everything in the world is empty.

Now we can go back and understand what the Buddha said in the book:

"You can call this book a book or understand it as a book, because it can never be a book."

In the matter of buying a house, we can say this:

"You can say that buying a house is a good thing, and it can also be understood as a good thing. It is precisely because buying a house itself can never be a good thing or a bad thing. In other words, aside from our views on it, it is not a good thing or a bad thing in itself. "

What does this have to do with business?

Why does the hidden potential of this thing become the key to our life and career success?

To answer these questions,

We must understand what the operating rules behind the potential are.

(To be continued)