{"id":265,"date":"2002-11-10T23:28:19","date_gmt":"2002-11-11T07:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2002-11-10T23:28:19","modified_gmt":"2002-11-11T07:28:19","slug":"the-diamond-cutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"the diamond cutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so, i am a week away from a making a major turning point in my life, on a path a full time enterpretneur. the past year since orange has been operation, it&#8217;s been back and forth between contracts and orange. but now, as i approach that mythical number, which is only significant because i want it to be significant, it&#8217;s time to reconcile my work ethnics and my personal ethnics.<\/p>\n<p>although fimilar with numerous buddhist texts, i decided to pick up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0385497903\/qid=1036998910\/sr=8-1\/ref=sr_8_1\/102-0583809-7103345?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">&#8220;the diamond cutter&#8221;<\/a> from the public libaray. it&#8217;s a translation of the tibetean diamond sutra teachings as well as application of those teachings within a business environment. i&#8217;ve only gone through the first sevearl chapters and i haven&#8217;t been impress by the writing\/teachings presented so far but it&#8217;s too early to tell.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\ni&#8217;ve completed half the book and by far, there&#8217;s too much stuff about the diamond business. still, he dissects fimilar concepts with a different knife and are are new angles to digest the meaning of the teachings. i like his metaphors of the concept of emptyness as it ties in with concepts that i&#8217;ve know by different names. luckly it&#8217;s short book but a worthy book in the context of a business environment, not real practical if you don&#8217;t already have some background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so, i am a week away from a making a major turning point in my life, on a path a full time enterpretneur. the past year since orange has been operation, it&#8217;s been back and forth between contracts and orange. but now, as i approach that mythical number, which is only significant because i want it to be significant, it&#8217;s time to reconcile my work ethnics and my personal ethnics. although fimilar with numerous buddhist texts, i decided to pick up &#8220;the diamond cutter&#8221; from the public libaray. it&#8217;s a translation of the tibetean diamond sutra teachings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb4m0Z-4h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jack.orangephotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}