In the auditorium, the students were personnel from renowned brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Shiseido, Senka, Anessa, Tsubaki, Narciso, and Clé De Peau Beauté… They were managers and potential leaders from Shiseido Group, eager to learn professional Leadership skills; one group flew in from Hanoi to study. They attended the full TMT 6 Blocks Leadership course (Ether Leadership/Automatic Leadership). At the end of the first session, suddenly, after a short exchange with the instructor in the Q&A before lunch, I shared a few thoughts. Then, entirely outside the program's original agenda, the students expressed a shared wish to learn meditation. The whole class burst into applause. Their intention was clear: “We want to learn meditation.”
I find this interesting, but not surprising.
Why is it interesting? You know, in the Corporate environment, we must constantly move forward, chase targets, and fight intensely. In an environment of Luxury brands, we focus even more on values such as designer goods, elegance, refinement, and prestige. There is nothing wrong with that. However, we need balance to go further without so much inner hurt, and to become more fulfilled
At a stage of life when we still need to focus on material things, we usually regard information about spirituality, consciousness, or meditation as a joke. Our attitude toward it feels uncertain; we may even find it off-putting. Then we often use science to reject it, although we ourselves do not truly understand what “science” means or what it has “implicitly” acknowledged by now. Yet we frequently use that scientific “shell” to deny the truth. It simply is not our time yet; for now, the lessons we need lie in another area.
On the other hand, there is a group of people relatively progressive in consciousness who practice an enlightened life every day and move closer to the truth. They understand what is truly important in this world.
But there is also another group of people who renounce material things and take an excessively extreme stance toward them. They use spirituality as a means of escape rather than balance. They temporarily leave the material ego, only to fall into a subtler one: the spiritual ego. They think that having the Buddha, God, meditation, and spirituality makes them good. If you have renounced material things and look at someone just stepping out of a Lamborgini, inwardly scoffing and thinking you are better and more evolved than they are, then you have fallen into the spiritual ego. Being excessively extreme about material things is just as dangerous as excessively chasing them.
The necessary attitude is balance: a marriage of spirituality and material life. Meditation is a very important path toward this.
So when you live in an environment filled with glittering, luxurious illusions, and are even a senior executive in those Luxury settings, your genuine desire to learn meditation arising so quickly interests me. Many people misunderstand meditation; some even think it will slow them down, stop them from earning as much money, make them regress or become obsolete, and so on. Yet these senior executives want to learn meditation. They came here to learn Leadership, and after meeting the instructor, they wanted to learn meditation too. I find that very interesting.
But I was not surprised. Because it was an immediate transformation of energy. They were inspired to begin approaching the truth. That was a clear signal sent to me by the universe, telling me what I needed to do.
At the next session, a few more participants came up to the instructor's desk and quietly asked me, “Will you teach meditation later, Teacher?” and “Will we get to learn meditation later, Teacher?”
I smiled. The sign was already unmistakable.
I stood up straight, smiled and looked directly at the wonderful people before me. For the first time in my life, I declared in a clear, strong voice:
“I will teach you meditation.”
I accept this mission.
Then, immediately, they began discovering the benefits of a method that meant they did not need a holiday in the Maldives to find peace. During Covid, they could not travel even if they wanted to. Instead, they could attain peace within minutes through a means always free and always available in their own bodies. Immediately, they could respect their emotions, whatever those emotions were. They began going deeper within, dissolving the outer layers of ‘make up’ to gradually approach their true inner essence. Immediately, they began concentrating their minds; with further practice and the right method, they could purify the mind and heal many memories and patterns within, attaining true peace and true happiness.
The road is only beginning for them.
And for me, this mission is beginning to bloom too.
If I taught you meditation, would you want to learn? As many people know, and as my assistant who handles training contracts knows, my fee is $1.000/hour or $3.000-5000/day. For teaching meditation, I would charge nothing at all. I will teach meditation free of charge if you need it. Meditation is like Facebook: free. But unlike Facebook, where you use FB and become its ‘product,’ here you never become meditation’s ‘product.’ Meditation will always be a tool you use to develop consciousness.
Interact with me and tell me how you feel. If you want to learn meditation, let me know by commenting below.
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