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Linda Kaplan Thaler, who built a billion-dollar advertising company and wrote the best-selling business book The Power of Nice: “I owe much of the success of our company to the beliefs in The Diamond Cutter: we ensure our success when we plant imprints in our minds by ensuring the success of others.”
Russell Simmons, founder of the hip-hop movement, personal value $320 million, master of Diamond Cutter philosophy: “I made a lot of people in the world rich. I made money by making other people money. I’m rich from making others rich.”
You see, in Karmic Management, every time you come to a crossroads and have to take a decision about your project or your life, you’ve already failed, even if you do take a decision and it works out. If you’ve been doing your Karmic Management correctly, events have just worked out already, without the decision.
Every karmic step you take will without question lead to its result: what goes around always comes around.
Your problems are your path. —Geshe Potowa, Tibetan, 1027–1105 AD
In between every action you purposely take to make your karmic business partners successful, you’re going to take three other actions to keep them from being too successful, just out of old habit. Now that’s okay: the one positive action is 100% more than we did in the past, and it’s enough to create more success than we’ve ever had before. But the other, negative seeds are going to be popping in at inconvenient moments in our project, and causing problems. Like Frank.
That is, until it starts to come. The moment a complaining Frank pops up on our team—the very first day you start to see even just the beginning of a problem like Frank—you need to do something, fast. Because now you know that a random negative seed is starting to ripen, and if you don’t shut it down quick it’s going to ruin your project.
“Whatever you want from life, you must do for someone else first.”
The way to shut off a karma is to be absolutely careful not to do any more of it now.
So take joy in your problems; focus on your problems and embrace them.
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Karmic Management by Geshe Michael Roach, Lama Christie McNally, Michael Gordon presents key insights from the Tibetan Buddhism tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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