Some days back I was in the management school of BHU where I talked about the Art of Living in recession. The gloomy faces of the students gave shape to the entire talk.
Business is not an investment, it is an idea. There have been millions of business men in the world who have succeeded only on ideas. But for an idea to strike you, you have to be fully aware. For denominating a new idea in the present, the past and the future have to be zeroed out. Reeling in the past, or anxiety about the future will not precipitate a new idea in the present. There have been times in my life when the best of ideas bombard in the exteriors of a silent, scenic place or the calm interiors of the mind. Doing nothing. Just waiting. Smiling. Experiencing.
The mind has to find a stimuli to come back to the present. For creativity the mind has to be totally naked. Being in the now allows us to be in touch with our creativity.
The other factor, which stops us from doing something new, is risk. Risk of the unknown. Risk of failure. Risk of complacency.
Courage is the opposite of Risk. A little fear is also detrimental to self-reliance. Fear is an impression of the past reflecting about the future of the present. When you want to depend totally on yourself, there is nobody else, then you need a lot of courage. Depend on your ‘self’. You need to invest some time, effort in knowing the self. By meditating. By consciously dropping the past, and shutting off the future.
Then Ideas follow you. Courage engulfs you. Self-Reliance is easy and effective. Take this one idea to implement all the other new ideas in your life ?
Great post!! This is exactly what I realised when I got a break through in my research work. A calm mind is a real source of great ideas.
Wonderful.! jai Gurudev
Yes like they say..a good idea is to…implement a good idea 🙂
AWESOME 🙂
jgd… 🙂
absolutely..
just as u said… u can see the bottom of the lake, only when its free of ripples..
However, its something that should be taken with a pinch of salt..
b’coz.. [and I am speaking from past and vicarious experience]… some of the greates ideas have also come… when a relaxed mind has analyzed a past situation.. or predicted a future possible problem and thus thought of a creative solution for it..
bhaiya, u didn’t write anything about the Place whn mostly ideas pop up;-)
frnds u cn ask bhaiya about tht:)
this is wonderful , well articulated talk .. Brillant is not the word.. would really like you to post such thought provoking stuff…
Just Brillant…
jaigurudev
Harshad
Thought provoking 🙂
wow… yesterday you said me idea come only in cool n calm mind….really after reading it my thnking improved to a better stage….
good idea! :);)