Jobs: How did he change the world through Zen?

Steve Jobs, founder and former CEO of Apple.

He is deeply rooted. At the age of 65,438+07, he went to India to find a spiritual enlightenment saint. At the age of 65,438+08, he began to learn Cao Dongzong's Zen method from Japanese Zen master Kobun Otogawa.

Since then, Buddhism and Zen have influenced his life.

Thich nhat hanh has a book called Heart Force, which says that everyone has incredible power in his heart, and whether this power can be fully exerted depends on personal accomplishment.

The power of Jobs' example tells people how important it is for us to seek and inspire our inner potential. There is a giant hidden in everyone's heart, but you didn't use proper means to wake it up.

Meditation is an effective way to awaken a person's inner giant. Meditation exercises concentration, which forms the mind and enhances the will. This will eventually turn into all kinds of joint forces, forming forces that affect mankind and change the world.

Jobs' powerful mental effort is multifaceted, which comes from his fearless will to subvert the world, his unremitting focus like a laser, his infinite creativity out of nothing, and his intuition to transcend appearances and gain insight into the essence. These four forces converge into a powerful resultant force, which is so powerful that it changes again and again.

The power of will, the power of oath. "Although a diamond is hard, it is hard but has no strong will."

Jobs' life pursuit is "changing the world". Before changing the world, he completely changed himself, changed his heart and strengthened his will. When he persuaded President Pepsi to be CEO of Apple, it was not so much his domineering as his strong will, so when Jobs said, "Would you like to sell sugar water all your life, or would you like to change the world with me?" This sentence has been passed down to this day, and he was immediately conquered by Joe's great attraction.

People who are willing to work hard will naturally be strong, and they will not escape when they encounter difficulties and go forward bravely. 1985, Jobs was driven out of the Apple company he founded by his professional manager, but the company he founded was expelled by the migrant workers he invited. This cartoon-like result seemed like a cold joke, but Jobs accepted it because his heart was strong enough.

He later recalled: "Although I was fired, you can't fire my heart and what I still love." So I decided to start all over again. "

He soon founded NeXT's computer company. NeXT was later acquired by Apple, giving him the opportunity to return to Apple and finally regain power. Apple paved the way for his dream of changing the world.

What is your pursuit? How strong is your will? Think about it from another angle, just what kind of person you want to be. Everyone has asked himself these brain-burning questions. Usually, some people make choices that go against their hearts at the advice of their parents, elders and so-called experienced people, while people like Jobs choose to calm themselves down and listen to their deepest calls.

Almost all successful cognition is to listen to one's own heart and be supported by dreams to succeed step by step, instead of listening to the advice of this expert today and the advice of that elder tomorrow.

In this regard, Jobs's suggestion is: "Don't be obscured by the noisy opinions of others. The most important thing is to have the courage to follow your intuition and heart. In fact, all failures have one thing in common, that is, you have no confidence in yourself and don't know what kind of person you want to be. Do you think the advice given by others is useless?

Is your life today what you want to live in your life? Jobs said, "Every morning, I look in the mirror and ask myself," If today is the last day of my life, will you finish what you want to do today? "Everyone put off a lot of things until tomorrow and missed one wonderful moment after another. Jobs is a man who enjoys the present and pays attention to the process. He is a detail controller. His paranoia and control of details are concerned with the present performance, because the more you know the effect of each process, the more you can predict and see the results you want in advance.

This habit is like a seed, it will sprout and grow. There used to be a tree in Alishan, Taiwan Province Province, which was 4000 years old. It was very tall and big. It is called the Shenmu of Alishan Mountain and a famous scenic spot in Taiwan Province Province. Guo Taiming said: "The reason why the Shenmu in Alishan is so big was decided when the seeds fell into the soil 4,000 years ago, and it was not known until 4,000 years later." So everything Jobs did to change the world, he saw the result in advance at the moment he decided to do it, just like the seed that fell into the soil 4000 years ago.

Zen brought Jobs the ability to focus on things and the love of simplicity. There is a book called Crazy Conciseness, which actually comes from Jobs' thought. "Meditation tempered his ability to appreciate intuition, taught him how to filter out any distractions or unnecessary things, and cultivated a minimalist aesthetic in him.

In Steve Jobs' aesthetic philosophy, all products should not have a trace of superfluous things. Every button in every line should consider whether it is necessary. If it is not necessary, it should be cut without mercy.

Jony Ive, Jobs' designer, was abused by Jobs thousands of times. Jony Ive recalled, "He always asked me if this thing could be reduced? Can it be simpler? " Almost drove him crazy many times.

It is under the guidance of this minimalist aesthetic thought that all Apple products can't find simple buttons, and the most typical example is the revolution of mobile phone buttons. Jobs ordered Jony Ive to destroy all the damn buttons on the phone. Everyone, including Jony Ive, thought he was crazy, but with Jobs' paranoid insistence, he achieved great success.

Maybe it's normal for you to use a touch-screen phone today, but it was cool and advanced to use a touch-screen phone 10 years ago.

With this killer iphone, Nokia's first brand was successfully turned over, thus making Apple mobile phone a great product supported by global fruit powder crazily, and it has been selling like crazy until now.

Jobs kept the habit of meditation. The foundation of strong spiritual strength is high concentration. Buddhism says that the heart is like a torrent, and one thought after another flashes in our minds like a movie. We are very easily distracted at work, sometimes we don't even realize it, sometimes we do, but we can't extricate ourselves.

Jobs is an extremely dedicated person. After deciding to do something, he always throws himself into it wholeheartedly and never gives up until he reaches his goal. Jonathan Ivey, one of his vice presidents, recalled that Jobs was the most dedicated person he had ever met in his life. "This focus comes from your inner desire. This is a habit, not' I need to concentrate more on Monday', but to stay focused every minute. "

Jobs said, "Concentration and simplicity have always been one of my secrets. Only simplicity can achieve concentration, and only concentration can achieve the ultimate. "

The so-called innovation is "out of nothing", including ideas, products, art and so on. Major innovation is what we call subversion.

Jobs subverted the world at least five times: first, the era of personal computers was opened through Apple computers; Second, through Pixar computer animation company, the whole animation industry was subverted; Third, through the iPod, the whole music industry has been subverted; The fourth is to subvert the entire communication industry through the iPhone; The fifth is to redefine and subvert the tablet industry through the iPad. The average person can have a subversive event in his life, which is enough to make the legendary swordsman a bragging capital.

But Jobs subverted the world five times. He didn't brag. He succeeded in changing the world. If the president of Pepsi-Cola, who bought sugar water, is still alive, he must have lamented that Jobs did this more than once, and he is very glad that he chose to join.

Every time Jobs develops a new product, there are countless options. The wisdom of Jobs is that he can choose the most suitable one from countless options and combine them together with very demanding standards. Jobs once said in an interview, "To design a product, you have to put 5,000 questions in your mind. You must carefully arrange and try various combinations to get the desired results."

Origin in Buddhism means that everything in the world is born under certain conditions (karma) and is "empty" in essence. "Empty" means that these conditions may change at any time. Once some important conditions change, the nature of things will also change.

Jobs's previous subversive success was to grasp the important conditions that affect the essence of things in the "empty", and then take a shot and hit it with one blow.

Jobs's intuition is very keen. Ming Rui seems to have implanted several sensitive antennas in his body, constantly receiving the voice from his heart, and many of his important decisions were made by intuition. Intuition comes from the ability to follow your heart and grasp the essence through phenomena. Zen brought him the wisdom of this observation.

He never believed in the products finally decided through market research or collective discussion, and relied more on personal intuition. Jobs constantly trained his intuition through meditation. His office is over 200 square meters, and there is almost nothing in it. Before deciding on a new product, he will stay alone in a spacious office, put a cushion in the middle of the floor and start meditation.

On the floor in front of him, there are several different semi-circular samples. When he sat down and opened his eyes, he intuitively picked up a sample, that is, Apple is about to launch a new product. And his product selection based on meditation has been proved wise and correct by the market again and again. When you calm down carefully, your intuition will be very clear and sharp.

Zen requires people to give up their existing knowledge and logic and solve problems with their inner feelings. So Zen is a method, not to accumulate knowledge as much as possible, but to gain "wisdom to prove the truth of everything" by improving awareness.

The ultimate wisdom of life lies in inner awareness. Knowledge is only superficial and a matter of methodology. What you should choose is awareness? What to do at the strategic level.

When talking about his meditation experience, Jobs said, "If you sit down and observe quietly, you will find how anxious your heart is. In this impetuous society where we live, concentration is becoming a scarce quality, and even a yardstick for a person's success or failure.

Do you think it's difficult to calm down now, but you will always calm down after training for a long time, and then there will be room for you to listen to more subtle things-then your intuition will begin to develop, you will see things more thoroughly and feel better about the real environment. When your mind gradually calms down, your vision will be greatly extended. You can see things you didn't see before. This is an exercise, and it must be practiced constantly. "

When we keep practicing to make this behavior a habit, it will undoubtedly enrich the soul and soul, awaken your other powerful "I" and become an invisible "I" of others, but you can feel that he is always by your side to give you direction, strength and even great wisdom.

Too many people always don't know who I am and can't control their own souls. We should take Jobs as an example and get "me" back through life care. Only by recognizing who I am through Neiguan can we know who I will become.

As Jobs said: "Through meditation, you can see things more thoroughly and feel the real environment better, your intuition will rise quietly, your vision will be greatly expanded, and you can see things that you could not see before."

In 2004, Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The doctor announced that he could only live for three to six months, but after the operation, he appeared at Apple product launches again and again. It was not until seven years later that the legend passed away.

Being sick is a kind of suffering, but in Jobs' eyes, it is also a kind of practice, which also makes Jobs more aware of the world and more detached from things. He said, "disease is like a condemnation of life, which makes people think." Jobs said with emotion, "Everyone will leave this world. I just left early ... people will eventually leave with nothing. The key is that when you are alive, there is no reason not to follow your heart, realize your dreams, and bring many beautiful things to mankind. "

Facing death, Jobs learned from Zen: "Death is the best invention in life. It promotes the change of life, the old ones don't go, and the new ones don't come. " In his famous speech at the graduation ceremony of Stanford University, he warned young people: "Although you are still young, your time is limited, so you should create unlimited value with limited vitality."

Don't always let other people's opinions affect your inner voice. And most importantly, you should have the courage to listen to your intuition and spiritual instructions-many people ignore the dream of their inner genius, and to put it bluntly, they are suspicious and unconfident. This is the devil hidden in the body and should be removed as soon as possible.

Zen changed Jobs, and Jobs changed the world through Zen.