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Seeing Ourselves and the World With Fresh Eyes
Living at Tassajara, Zen Mountain Center in the middle of a wilderness area provided me with numerous lessons on giving up what I thought was supposed to happen on any given day. During my first winter in the valley, a week of winter rainstorms transformed the creek...
Manage Your Energy Like Your Life Depended on It
Right now my life is just one learning experience after another. By the end of the week I should be a genius. - author unknown (once published as a Brush Dance greeting card) When I was a full-time student at New York University’s Graduate School of Business, I...
3 Things to Do Every Day at Work
Many years ago, when I was CEO of Brush Dance, my wife asked me to give her the names of some graphic designers and to describe their particular capabilities. I wrote her an email, describing the two designers we used and outlined what I felt were their strengths and...
Audio: Relaxed and Alert Meditation
In this 5-minute guided meditation, we’ll practice completely being relaxed while being completely alert at the same time.
Audio: Just One Career
In this dharma talk at City Center, a branch of the San Francisco Zen Center, Marc Lesser discusses how we only have one career and how the practices of knowing our self, going beyond our self and helping others are interconnected with practicing love. Drawing on his...
It Takes Patience to Accept the Truth
I was the CEO of Brush Dance for more than fifteen years. When I look back at the initial business plan that I wrote in 1989 I see that the company achieved exactly what I set out to achieve in terms of revenues, product line, and distribution. It took us nearly...