Leadership and Zero State of Mind - 2

Leadership in life is sometimes effected by ours and others self esteem, insecurities, relativity and at times by our voracious desire to succeed and excel.

It causes a conflict, a kind of mental turmoil where the quest to achieve Zero State does not go hand in hand with the passion (madness at times) to suceed in what you do.

I passed through this phase for long time and probably nothing worked. It was as if you are trying to live with two different value systems-one distinct from another.

And then I met my mentor. A light discussion on the concept of Servant Leadership with him made it all clear. All points met and it was a pattern. The two value systems of life outside and at work appeared to be mirror image of each other, with one supporting and energising the other. There was no conflict any more. It was all clear and full of energy. It was like a perpetual motion machine, creating energy for every next step by itself.

Servant Leadership is about serving people and is about dedicating every action to benefit others, for a higher level good. Drive and passion at work are now not for a self oriented motive to achieve material benefits and satisfaction but to achieve higher goals of benefiting a larger number of people.

This thought of Servant Leaderhsip itself is based on compassion, on "loving thy neighbour" and compliments efforts on working on Zero State of Mind.

Leadership and The Zero State of Mind -Part 1

It has been my long lasting quest, a quest to maintain Zero State of Mind regardless of the situation in life.

It is usually easier to meditate for 10 minutes in the morning and detach yourself from extreme emotions. You are detached because you wanted to be so and you put a conscious effort on it. Before the meditative practice we tell ourselves that we would refrain ourselves from "thinking" and belive our daily quota of meditation is over for the day.

What is difficult is to live in a meditative state, to walk, talk, discuss, present, drive while you are in the same meditative state. Probvably such state can be termed as Applied Meditation.

Nothing is permanent

Impermanence. A very simple definition of this word would be nothing is permanent. Everything changes with time and nothing remains as it is.

Bhudhists believe in the phenomenon of cause and effect. Bhudhist believe that every event in our life preceedes an event and follows another event.

This chain of event continues through out our life and keeps most of us busy.

Why do not we ponder more on the concept of impermanence and "let go of things". Why do we get stuck to a thought when things do not go our way. One thing goes against us and we go into the "auto negative mode" with series of negative emotions, one leading another.

Probably that is why Bhudhists believe that we need to cultivate positive emotions such as love and compassion and try to refrain from negative emotions such as anger, jealousy and hatred. Reflecting on impermanence helps in cultivating a reasoning to amplify positive emotions.

Well this is not just a one time post and there will be many more occasions where I will have to write around the same lines to pacify my turbulent mind as it is today.

Even small incidents such as the one today can disturb us so profoundly. Compassion and positive emotions are the key.

Colour of Light

Human emotions are like colour of light.

Those of us who understand the concept of "refraction" will immediately relate to the principle that the colour of light is White and the colours we see around us are just refraction of White light.

So, in reality the colour of light is just pure white. Emotions perhpas canbe compared with these refracted wavelengths of light, which appear to us as different colours.

Summation of these emotions is "white", there is no resultant "force".

Well, I am not the first one..........

While browsing through the web I found this resource which explains similar and to large extent same concepts as what I had mentioned earlier in this blog.

http://biologyofkundalini.com/article.php?story=BiologicalRelationtoZero-Point

Compassion - Key to success

I searched on the web to find some Blogs on similar subject and was surprised to see that there are fair few Blogs presenting thoughts on similar subjects as mine. Its a great feeling that across the world there are people who although striving and succedding in their daily lives chores are interested in thinking on "Self reaslisation".

One of the keys to success is "The Art of Compassion". This is an art and a skill as it is partly in you and partly can be developed with persistent efforts. Compassion, simply put is loving people around you. This is simple to read and perhaps all of us have read this or heard this from religous, social or spiritual sources. It is equally difficult to implement. Mind plays tricks with us and lets our emotions dominate our judgement. The more you let the mind take over and let it freely fly in clouds of throughts and emotions the more the mind gets involved in stronger emotions. Strong emotions can be strong liking represented by feelings such as liking, loving, or longing or can be feelings of hatred, revenge, jealousy and anger. Compassion works as a calming agent on such feelings and helps to bring the mind home.

Whilst I do not claim to be a master on this subject, I am confident in writing that it has paid dividends in the form of subdued mental turbulence in my own life. There are many sites available on the subject of Compassion. I found Tibetan Budhism as great source for learning Comapssion. Teachings from His Highness The Dalai Lama are always simple and effective.

Some good links are;

http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/

http://www.buddhanet.net/compassion.htm

Learning

Sometimes it is difficult to learn. And probably more difficult is to implement the learning. I learnt something yesterday and that was "how to post your thoughts-making a statement or initiating a discussion".

So here it is the implementation of my learning.

Is it really difficult to have a balance of emotions, The Zero State of mind, in your day to day life and espescially at your work place or is it similar to reach the mirage.

Happiness-Let us give it a chance

Well, perhaps it is much easier to understand this subject than implement in our day to day lives. We all crave for happiness of some sort. We define happiness as what we feel elates our mood or senses. Or probably the more intellectual ones might have a more refined definition of happiness. But the fact remains that we all look for that one thing in life - Happiness.

How can we find this happiness, the answer is very simple to understand - "Love Thy Neighbour". The first step to this journey is compassion, which is not practical to implement till we understand the effect of emotions on our mind.

Emotions, depending on the type, can bring or disturb the Zero State of Mind.

The Zero State of Mind: The Zero State of Mind

The Zero State of Mind

The Zero State of Mind

Does the mind has a Zero State. What is The Zero State. And if there is a Zero State how does one know that it is the Zero State. Can one achieve this Zero State by practice and what benefits, both tangible and intangible, one will have if this state is achieved. How does this Zero State effect our day to day lifestyle.

This is Blog aims at presenting my thoughts and experiences on this topic and developing a forum where a community can develop of "like minded" people interested in pursuing this phenomenon more thoughtfully.

Zero State as it defines itself is the state of matter where there is no residual energy of any kind. Zero in iteself has no "value". It has a special value in the science of numbers and is the mid-point in number axis. It is the point where an infinite number axes comes to a "end" and the numbers "change" their value.

Human mind also has a similar Zero Sate where the mind is in its purest form. It is the state when there is absolute peace and bliss. There are no thoughts, no residual energy. It is that absolute vacuum or emptiness of mind that I call the Zero State.

In meditative practices this is the state when mind has "no thoughts" and it is not trying to attach to or detach from a thought. In the science of human emotions this is the state of mind when it has no emotions, the state is emotionless. In Hindu Yogic practices this is the state when there is the "pause" when you have just finished inhaling and are ready to exhale or when you have exhaled and are just ready to inhale.

State of Mind during these situations is what I term as The Zero State of Mind.

I will share more on how this state of mind effects our lives and how to achieve this state in the next post.