Vipasana and business management

Business management

With the increasing complexity of business, especially industrial business, the use of meditation techniques has become popular over the last few years. However, they are mainly used as stress - relieving methods for executives who are experiencing stress in achieving goals.

Managing a large-scale industrial business requires organization, quality control, production, procurement, marketing, cash flow, administration, and more. Each of these operations requires clear thinking, planning, coordination, execution, cost accounting and profitability forecasting. There are now several colleges that teach this type of management. There are special management practices for large organizations with a turnover of one hundred million US dollars or more. Research and development methods are also available to improve the technology of this business.

The need for meditation

Where exactly is meditation in the world? In order to get an answer, we must turn to more industrialized countries, such as the United States and Germany. The character of societies produced by advanced industrialization was characterized by high consumption of alcohol, drugs and cigarettes; pandemic divorces and broken families; economic recession and uncertainty about work; strong feelings of competition and frustration leading to heart attacks, suicides and the like.

A fragmented society

People who become business managers come from this fragmented society. Business schools teach them to work for higher profits and higher wages, and the resulting stress leads to increased drug and alcohol consumption, as well as various health problems such as hyper-tension. The level of uniformity in such societies is worsening. Business owners, executives, and managers develop feelings of pride, prejudice, jealousy, and arrogance, and experience the effects of this lifestyle: anxiety, stress, and other relapses.

Positive transformation

The Vipassana meditation technique improves the lives of executives and business executives by transforming their attitude. Prejudice is replaced by compassion; jealousy turns to joy from the success of others; greed and arrogance are replaced by generosity and humility, etc.

This transformation of attitude leads to a decrease in stress, mental moderation and balance. It is a creative force capable of provoking a dynamic work approach in the subordinate staff. Positive changes are caused by a change in the attitude and actions of the executive to polite and compassionate behavior, a gentle language and a mind full of love and benevolence. This positive change of consciousness is the purpose of true meditation practice, and it forms a new and advanced basis for business and production management.

Create wealth that combines money with health and happiness

Currently, the effectiveness of business management is assessed by profit or ability to "make money". Managers are judged for their ability to make more money by increasing turnover, developing new technologies with better payback, or reducing costs through new inventions. Instead, they want a pay raise and more bonuses. While there is nothing wrong with generating profits and increasing income, the real goal of an economic enterprise is to create wealth that combines money with health and happiness. Vipassana makes a major contribution to improving the mental health and happiness of people, vital components of wealth.

Human resources development

Many companies now have HRD units known as HRD. HRD is a new concept because people who work in the business or industry should not be perceived as having something sustainable. They need to be developed. One of the parameters of this process is the development of mutual respect, which naturally improves interpersonal relationships. Meditation will also help to achieve this, enabling us to overcome hostility to other people - colleagues, subordinates, superiors, civil servants and others. This hostility is manifested by anger, arrogance, envy, revenge, selfishness, greed, prejudice, and ill will. Lectures, seminars, books, discussions and more give some understanding of these topics. However, over 95% of the negative material in the human mind remains unchanged, despite the intellectual understanding of the value of overcoming hostility, negativity, and selfishness.

Proper functioning

The practice of Proper Life (Samma-Ajiva) is an important aspect of Vipassana meditation. This can be the basis for a business management practice that can be based on traditional methods of managing the use of statistics, such as cash flow forecasts, return on capital, GNP, turnover, etc. These options are useful if they are based on the concept of proper functioning.

In short, the application of this concept means that the income , regardless of any corporation or individual, must not only be ethical , but the minds of the persons producing this income must be reasonably pure, ie free from the negatives mentioned above. . The mental climate, devoid of negatives, automatically becomes pure and exhibits the characteristics of true love, respect, cooperation, compassion and evenness. The wealth produced by a group consciousness of this nature not only brings money, but also the mental health and happiness arising from a stress-free consciousness.

The subconscious mind

Without going into the details of Vipassana meditation, I will touch on an important aspect of the transformation of consciousness: the subconscious mind. Very little is known about this mind, which is filled with negatives, counterproductive to wealth in its totality. Although it is possible to recognize and feel these negatives, it is impossible to empty the mind from these defilements without the proper technique.

Most methods of meditation are not able to reach the subconscious, they are not colorless and therefore can "tarnish" the mind, which further complicates the situation. Vipassana bases every step on "reality as it is." Vipassana allows the meditator to experience moments of "no nourishment" of the mind . This triggers the process of "detoxification" by the mind of its impurities.

Industrial disease

A mind that does not meditate and does not develop purification and peace causes dire consequences. When the minds of industry executives are unclean, the consequences are comprehensive and serious.

This phenomenon is an example of a classic example of a management failure at a Bombay Textile Plant. Twenty years ago, it was a viable, profitable unit; however, the greed for fast money caused a financial tragedy. The cash inputs that could be used to modernize the plant and machinery or to finance working capital were set aside for the directors' personal benefit. Their livelihoods were not the "right way of being." Desecration of greed has killed the best interests of directors and caused widespread misery for much of Bombay's workforce and economic system.

Vipassana meditation is a surgery of consciousness. With proper practice, the rate of purification can be dramatically increased. Technology frees the mind from greed. Common sense is alert and capable of meeting the demands of the situation. This, of course, comes from habits and indulgences. Vipassana practice leads to a reduction in thrust. A business driven with this kind of consciousness would have led to the growth of the textile industry rather than the creation of diseased manufacturing units.

An analysis of the growing industrial disease and the failure of business management reveals patterns. In many cases, excessive anxiety about export or expansion leads to a reallocation of working capital to the production of fixed assets. The result is an acute shortage of working capital and excessive borrowing - clearly dangerous avenues for business practice. With mindfulness, mature meditation, such actions caused by desire are checked by the calm and cool nature of the uniformity, which reduces the possibility of making such mistakes.

Pure Reason:

Management basics

The Vipassana technique alone does not create new control technology. It helps to improve governance by correcting the root of the problem - the impurity of the mind, so that the business is constantly eating clean food of the right thoughts and actions. Excessive desires and greed poison managers' minds. These impurities are corrected by meditation.

Attitude to competition

Vipassana also changes her attitude towards competitors. When a business knocks out a competitor, a chain reaction occurs: a vicious cycle begins. Many businesses have been shattered by this attitude. Vipassana purifies the mind and fills it with wisdom that allows the practitioner to understand that there is a place for everyone to coexist. The purification that results from the practice of Vipassana prepares fertile soil where the seeds of healthy business management are grown. The ground of common sense gives rise to management practices, where the primary purpose is to create peace and happiness in society, and the secondary purpose is to obtain money as a means to purchase goods and services, as well as to achieve economic emancipation and improve the quality of life.

Case study of Ananda engineers

My company, Ananda Engineers Pvt. LLC (Bombay) has a turnover of over USD 1 million. All directors, senior members, and most clerks and workers conducted a Vipassana meditation. The way he was introduced was that initially the managing director took the course and then his senior staff followed suit. Other people noticed the changes above, and then they wanted to try. Our experience has shown that the effectiveness of the group's work has increased with the income and the accompanying improvement in mental health and interpersonal relationships. There may be larger companies that have higher profits, but I have found that the happiness of staff and employees stems not only from money, but from warm and compassionate behavior from management. This cardiac treatment does not occur in any way except Vipassana. (This statement comes from my own experience.

Some highlights of the study:

Sixty percent of employees attended the courses. About half of them have completed more than one course.

The resultant changes in the organization were the transition from a rule of authority to a consensus decision taken at a lower level, from individuality to team spirit and from indecision and uncertainty to self-motivation of the workforce. Performance improved by 20%.

Conclusion

I have had in-depth discussions with more than a dozen small business executives following their Vipassana courses. These discussions confirmed that after the Vipassana course, they are able to work 20% faster than before, and the quality of their work has improved the value of using a subtle mind. They report that trends in greed, anger, arrogance, and prejudice have diminished, and friction with staff has also decreased. The result is very healthy and cordial interpersonal relationships, and the wealth of their businesses has steadily grown as a result of these positive changes.

Source : smedevelopment.info