A no-nonsense Zen approach to our economic realities can change everything and help us regain our freedom.
Is it possible to be personally fulfilled, and also make a difference
within our current financial system? If you're skeptical, business coach
and Zen practitioner Kai Romhardt proposes a minimalist,
awareness-based strategy that totally reconfigures our core economic
relationships: work, consumption, and money.
How do we do that? We need to pause, breathe, and get in touch with our true intentions.
Too often, we think of the economy as something outside of us, as beyond
the scope of our individual choices. We're unhappy with how things are
going, with unthinking growth that polarizes our world and condenses
wealth at the top, but we don't know what to do. Romhardt argues that
individuals who wield a sharp Buddhist mindset can, in fact, create
change through personal decisions: when we can see in to society, and in
to our constructs, we become empowered to choose deeply real and
purposeful lives.