Zen

Why am I here?; What happens to me after I die?; How, then, should I live? These are the questions almost everyone in the lifetime eventually asks themselves. These questions ask what being human really is, and why we, as humans, live the way we do. Put together, these questions are called the Great Conversation. The Great Conversation questions will be dissected and answered by looking at answers given through three stories, the story of Gilgamesh, the story of Mahabharata, and a Buddhist…

Buying a used car is not unlike giving birth: It’s exciting but can also be quite painful. The good news is, buying a used car makes a lot of financial sense. Because new cars typically depreciate as soon as you drive them off the lot, buying a late model used car means you can get a solid vehicle for a fraction of the price. The bad news is, unless you do your due diligence, you can wind up with a real lemon that ends up costing you as much in repairs as a new car would have. To save you a…

took a job as a technician for Atari in 1973. In 1974 Jobs went to India in search of spiritual enlightenment at Neem Karoli Baba. He adopted Indian beliefs by shaving his head and wearing the traditional Indian clothing. Steve then began practicing Zen Buddhism and maintained that practice until his death. Steve later tried the drug LSD and described it as "one of the two or three most important things he had done in his life". Steve Ronald Wayne and Wozniak founded a business named Apple…

opportunity to become so entrenched it causes paralysis. In a small book, The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hahn shares stories and exercises about the monumental relief one can receive from stress, fear and anxiety by changing a few simple things. This Zen master challenges the notion that multi-tasking allows us to achieve more when it actually generates more fear or anxiety about dropping the ball or missing something. The practice of mindfulness encourages being present with whatever…

The poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop dramatizes the conflict between submitting to the pain of loss and looking around it. The speaker is a person who has undergone many loses and is finding difficulty in accepting their most recent loss. They start by giving the example of losing their door keys, providing the humorous image of looking everywhere for the small items. Then, the losses get more intense. We move onto losing their mother’s watch (worth sentimental value), property, and hopes, yet…

displayed and their rhetoric can be shown in the field of psychology. The scientific method, clear communication, empathy, and ethics are four topics that all psychologists must value, and these values are discussed in the writings of Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Gerald Graff’s Clueless in Academe, and Jim Kuyper’s Rhetorical Criticism. To begin, the scientific method…

Leadership and management are crucial to the success of any business since they determine the face of an organization. Depending on how the leadership and management of a company is, differences and conflicts between the employees or the organization will be of significance and how they get settled will mater. Bel (48) asserts that leaders need to inspire and give a purpose not only to the employees but to the organization as a whole. Steve Jobs is such a leader who has inspired many people…

All business activities involve communication. For any manager, various processes such as leading, motivation, negotiation, decision making, problem solving and brainstorming, are all based on their ability to effectively communicate with employees, clients and suppliers. In most cases, managers have difficulty in communication, even when it is domestic. Hence it is only natural that people face barriers to communicating effectively across cultures. In particular for managers and expatriates…

Centralised feudalism presented a social, political and economic system based on personal loyalties, class distinctions and the granting of land rights. The social class system displayed a clear social hierarchy of wealth and power through to poverty and exploitation of people. Wealth creates power and wealth is created by land ownership in exchange for service or labour. Feudalism in Japan rose following the Heian period (between 782 and 1185CE) when the stable imperial government weakened and…

Religion has been embedded in our culture system as histories and narrative. So what is religion, religion is a believe that concerns the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency. Most religion but not all believe in that there is one supreme being, the creator of everything which is God. But what is a being, a being can be anything it can be a chair, a car anything. It may mean that God exist in one way or another in a…