If Your Aim Is Not to Attain Buddha-hood, Why Not Aim for Material Success?
You may be aspiring to become wealthy, your ambition may be to grow in your career, or you may want to beat the competition in your industry and become the numero uno in the field. These mundane desires and attaining Buddha-hood can not co-exist. Therefore, it is not necessary that you should worry about reaching that saintly stage or something parallel to it that may need complete renunciation. It is enough if you focus on the task on hand , that is accumulating wealth, achieving the career growth you want, or climbing to the top position in your industry. But how to accomplish these aims? Let us find out. If you observe how a champion player proceeds with his Chess game, you will observe that he will aim to make tiny gains on the board. As the game proceeds, these tiny gains will culminate into a huge win. Similarly, you should always work for making small gains. This rule is applicable to everyone, regardless of whether they are entrepreneurs or employees, or whether they w...