- The plants do not come to the gardener; the gardener must go to where the plants may be.
- Each plant has different needs at different times and the gardener must anticipate those and be proactive.
- However tall a mountain is, and however torrential the rain on it, it cannot hold water. To hold water, you need to make your mind a valley.
- I am not the purpose, I am the mode of conveyance; like a municipal water pipe, my job is to deliver the water and not quench my own thirst.
- Imagination is everything. If we can imagine a future, we can create it, if we can create that future, others will live in it. That is the essence of success.
Dalai Lama Visits Zen Garden
We talked about today's business crisis, on leadership and the young professional who loses affective regard for the idea of work while seeking early material success.
While we all wait for the launch of The Professional later this month, I have something special to share with you.
I trust that all of you are tracking the Zen Garden in Forbes India magazine in which I have had the rare privilege of hosting some truly remarkable people from Jimmy Wales to Siddhartha, from Anu Aga to Kiran Mazumdar Shaw. In this unusual column, I get to know of their personal space, their ideas about life and work and their life-lessons.
This fortnight, I have the rarest of rare occasions: His Holiness, the Dalai Lama is the visitor to the Zen Garden. He is, to me the CEO of the soul and entrepreneur of the spirit.
On behalf of all of you, I had the opportunity to converse with him recently in Delhi. We talked about today’s business crisis, on leadership and the young professional who loses affective regard for the idea of work while seeking early material success.
Do not miss it, you must pick up the collector’s issue from the news stand in the coming week and let me know your thoughts.
Dear Subroto,
Little disappointed to know that I have to wait till end of September to see ‘The professional’ in my hand. I have already booked it from Indiaplaza.in and counting the days.
Regards,
Jayakumar
Dear Sir,
I look forward to reading the 2nd issue of September edition of Forbes-India magazine. I also look forward to lay my hands on the upcoming book ‘The Professional’.
A suggestion. I would request if you could bring out a collection of your column ‘The Zen Garden’ on an yearly basis, since there are possibilities that most of us might miss out a few interviews, which we could catch up through the yearly collection. I guess this suggestion might be a bit too early, but please do consider this when the appropriate time arrives.
Regards,
Gurudatta.
