The Diamond Cutter: The Buddha on Managing Your Business and Your Life (Paperback)

~ Geshe Michael Roach (Author) "What makes this business book different from any other you have ever read?..." (more)
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?A Cross between the Dalai Lama?s ethics and Stephen Covey?s Seven Habits, The Diamond Cutter will have you gardening a path to the bank.? ?Amazon.com, editorial review

?Here is wise advice and counsel on an ethical and prosperous way of being in the workday world based on Tibetan Buddhist principles.? ?Spirituality and Health

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“A Cross between the Dalai Lama’s ethics and Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits, The Diamond Cutter will have you gardening a path to the bank.” —Amazon.com, editorial review

“Here is wise advice and counsel on an ethical and prosperous way of being in the workday world based on Tibetan Buddhist principles.” —Spirituality and Health

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Three Leaves (July 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385497911
• ISBN-13: 978-0385497916
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #331,740 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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33 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't know what to say.. (79 stars!!!:)), February 22, 2006

By	J. Malnar "http://s1.ba.gladiatus.org/game/c.... (Zagreb Croatia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

and I don't end up speechless often.
Since I started reading this book 4 days ago I retold the basics of its lessons to half a dozen friends, and they have been adding their names to the waiting list to borrow it.
This book came into my life at the time when I already reached the level of spiritual understanding needed to put it into practice.
The bottom line of the book (and the buddhist teaching) is that every thing we DO, SAY and THINK, leaves an imprint onto our minds. Good or bad.
The more positive imprints we "stamp" onto our consciousness, the more positive our life's circumstances will be, resulting in more positive experiences.
Most desirable imprints we can plant in our minds, summarized in an 1800 years old poem by an indian master (quoted from the book):

I'll tell you briefly the fine qualities
of those on path of compassion
Giving, and ethics, patience and effort,
concentrating, wisdom, compassion and such.

Giving is giving away what you have,
And ethics is doing good to others.
Patience is giving up feelings of anger,
And effort is joy that increases all good.

Concentration 's one pointed, free of bad thoughts,
And wisdom decides what truth really is.
Compassion's a kind of high intelligence
Mixed deep with love for all living kind.

Giving brings wealth, a good world comes from ethics;
Patience brings beauty, eminence comes from effort.
Concentration brings peace, and from wisdom comes freedom;
Compassion achieves everything we all wish for.

On how to use the knowledge given in Buddha's teaching in everyday life, do read the book. Its going to change your life. Or rather, it will give you tools to start changing your life.
I already started changing mine.

25 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ancient Wisdom with Modern Enterprise, October 23, 2003

By	"kveenhof" (Arizona, United States) - See all my reviews

Geshe Michael Roach combines 15 years as an international business executive, with the wisdom accrued by living a life dedicated to spiritual evolution. In fact, his phenomenal success as a business man was directly caused by following the principles outlined in The Diamond Cutter.

This book is an incredible guideline for not only how to be an sucessful, ethical businessperson, but how the world actually works. The point is not the dogmatic notion of virtue, but the logic behind it. Why does generosity lead to wealth? Why does kindness lead to happiness? The key lies in two concepts clearly articulated by Geshe Roach in The Diamond Cutter: Hidden Potential and Mental Imprints.
Read this book if you want to know why you experience your world the way you do, and the speciic causes for creating the business, and the life, that you desire. Learn how to get to the end of your career, and look back and know that it was worth it. This book is highly recommended.

27 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful book that brings spirituality to the workplace, March 21, 2004

By	F. J. Cote (Downers Grove, Il USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is a wonderful story about a Buddhist priest who comes to the New York diamond business and works his way up from the bottom using Buddhist principles anonymously. The business is a great success selling millions and still being true to the most unlikely of business attitudes. It's a great story and it actually rings true. Along the way he talks about a lot of the problems westerners have with classice Buddhist writings.
This book made me rethink the way I deal with the people I work with and my goals in life.
I want all my friends to read this book.