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The key principles of The Diamond Cutter align surprisingly well with several strategies from Sun Tzu's The Art of War , particularly in their mutual focus on winning without direct conflict , profound self-knowledge , and shaping reality before the battle begins. While Sun Tzu approaches these concepts from a military/competitive standpoint, and The Diamond Cutter from a moral/causal (karmic) one, the outcomes of superior strategy are very similar. 🗡️ Strategic Alignment of Key Concepts Here's how the core ideas of the two books connect: 1. The Supreme Goal: Winning Without Fighting Sun Tzu's Principle: "Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting ." The best general wins by defeating the enemy's strategy, alliances, or will, minimizing cost and conflict. The Diamond Cutter's Alignment: The entire "planting seeds" method is designed to create a reality of success before facing the problem. By proac...

The world’s oldest printed book is not the Bible but The Diamond Sutra or translated as Diamond Cutter. In chapter 1 of The Diamond Cutter, it talks about the concept of Emptiness. Emptiness is not empty but full of meaning. Understand that everything that is happening in your team and organization, including the things that you like or dislike, is empty. They are not pleasant or unpleasant things, they are just empty. This is because what is success to one is considered failure to another, that's why things are empty by themselves. It is the meaning that we give to things that has meaning. For example, you see your team fighting among each other as bad. But to the your team member, the fighting is for him to succeed in his promotion, not his colleague. Whatever we want our team to do as a leader, we cannot succeed by telling them what to do. We can succeed only by planting the right seeds. The seeds that we plant in our mind are called karmic seeds. The seeds lay deep inside our...

We know that nothing ever happens to us is a good thing or bad thing from its own side , because, if it were, then everyone would experience it that way as well.  For example, we may find someone irritating in the workplace, as if his 'irritating-ness' were something inside him that was flowing out and flying across the room to us.  That of course is not true.  That person's irritating-ness was just our perception . In reality there is almost always someone who finds this person to be good and lovable.  In short, people have no quality within themselves.  People are neutral, blank or empty.  What we experience is just our perception. What causes our perception?  It is a combination of factors: our own experience, the environment, our opinion, others' opinion and most importantly, our own state of mind . If we are in a joyful or loving state of mind, we will have positive perceptions.  If we are in an angry or hatred state of mind, we will h...