| Sitting quietly, doing nothing, what a waste of | | | | of adding to you knowledge base, while meditation |
| valuable time, right? You could be on the | | | | is a process of letting go, and believe it or not, it's |
| computer or cell phone talking with friends, or | | | | this letting go that instills creativity and energy. |
| doing something really productive or fun. Why sit | | | | Since early in life we trained in academia by adding |
| quietly? | | | | to our knowledge base, and therefore meditation |
| In life, two things separate successful people from | | | | can appear to be a waste of time. But really, |
| ordinary people: creativity and energy. People with | | | | meditation is the only process that you can do |
| no college degrees or credentials whatsoever | | | | proactively to make fundamental changes in your |
| have made it to the highest ranks of corporate | | | | life. While academia makes surface changes, |
| America, and if you look carefully at their | | | | providing the tools, such as knowledge, to pass |
| attributes, you will find energy and creativity | | | | tests and handle everyday life, meditation instills |
| standing out head and shoulders above anything | | | | fundamental shifts in your basic being that takes it |
| that they have learned in the past. Creativity | | | | a level above basic tools such as knowledge, by |
| enables them to see everything anew and | | | | injecting into that knowledge direct, clear, vision |
| therefore not become bogged down in in old | | | | and seeing. A person of knowledge may learn all |
| concepts and stale solutions. | | | | there is to learn about horses and how to use |
| Simon Cowell began his career in a music | | | | them in the fields and to pull buggies, where a |
| publishing company mailroom. Mary Kay Ash, with | | | | person of insight might envision the automobile, |
| no college training, started a cosmetics business | | | | and with instinctive energy and creativity, go |
| called Mary Kay Inc. Michael Dell, at 19 years old, | | | | about producing one. |
| began what was to become Dell, Inc. Walt Disney | | | | Meditation begins when you sit down quietly, and |
| dropped put of school at 16. Henry ford became | | | | instead of thinking about anything for the time |
| an apprentice machinist at 16. Bill Gates, the | | | | that you are meditating, you let go completely of |
| world's richest man for 11 years in a row was a | | | | the outside world as well as any thoughts about |
| college drop out. Steve Jobs attended one | | | | the inside, spiritual world. This is not prayer time |
| semester of college, later co-founding Apple | | | | where we converse internally with God or Jesus, |
| Computers. And finally, Frank Lloyd Wright, who | | | | or think about heaven; this is absolute quiet time |
| never attended high school, became the most | | | | for the mind. |
| influential architect of the twentieth century. | | | | We learn in meditation how to let go. A memory |
| But if you don't have the creativity and energy of | | | | comes up - we let go of it as soon as we wake |
| these people, then it's best to get your degree | | | | up and see that we are supposed to be |
| because that is all you will have to back yourself | | | | meditating and instead have slipped into memories. |
| up for your entire life. You cannot learn how to | | | | If a future thought comes up, we let go as soon |
| get the energy and creativity of these people; it's | | | | as we realize that we are caught in speculation |
| not in the textbooks. Just as a natural athlete | | | | instead of meditating. Whatever comes up; "My |
| instinctively knows how to run and perform, and | | | | leg hurts," "I forgot to call the bank." "What time |
| with little or no coaching becomes great, a person | | | | is it?" - we let go of it - during our meditation. |
| without natural athletic ability will never make it to | | | | When we practice just a few minutes once a day |
| those heights regardless of the best training and | | | | to begin with, maybe just before retiring, and |
| coaching. | | | | learn to let go, quiet gaps will form between the |
| There is a little known secret, however, regarding | | | | many thoughts that now jam our heads. As |
| creativity and energy and how they can be | | | | those still moments between thoughts increase, |
| attained even if you are not born with them, and | | | | the mind becomes delightfully still and relaxed for |
| it's called meditation. A person with little | | | | awhile, maybe for the first time in our lives. And |
| imaginative capabilities and low vigor can | | | | as those moments of delightful stillness increase, |
| transform themselves into being creative and | | | | we have the beginnings of creativity and energy. |
| energetic, and a person who is already energetic | | | | If you would like to learn more about this entire |
| and creative can become extremely creative and | | | | process and how it deepens, visit our |
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| how meditation works, which is not the way in | | | | " Dhamma Talk and Forum. |
| which academics works. Academics is a process | | | | |