A COMPASS TO FULFILLMENT Author: Kazuo Inamori 　Mr. Kazuo Inamori is the founder and owner of Kyosera, globally noted high-tech company with thirty billion dollars of consolidated sales worldwide, and a Buddhist monk with many bestselling books of his own ranging from business to everyday life tips. One of the books known to the West is Buddhist Business Management published in 1994 and A Passion for Success: Practical, Inspirational, and Spiritual Insight from Japan's Leading Entrepreneur（McGraw−Hill. Also he is well known as the founder of Kyoto Award which is comparable to Nobel Prize in many ways including the diversity of the fields of work of recipients from science to art. The laureates include Avram Noam Chomsky from the States to Maurice Bejart of France 　 Table of Contents: ・How to elevate your soul is the purpose of your life ・If you change the way you think you can change your own fate ・Life's law is simple; All you will get is what you desire to get ・Imagine all the details across the board if you desire to get it ・Fate is the result of your mind ・Keep making effort over and over again, then you will find something entirely new ・Perspiration in your brain brings you a success ・Three poisons in your mind ・My own experience of mendicancy as a monk taught me warmth of human mind 　 High lights: 1) The teaching of Mr. Honda 　I met Soichiro Honda, the founder of Honda, at a seminar site for the first time. I was really looking forward to his lecture and yet he was late to appear. We waited for his arrival more than thirty minutes. He finally appeared. We expected he would start with apologies. 　Go home. Go back to your work place. It is a waste of time to be here. You would learn nothing from this kind of seminar. You can learn a lot by sticking to your job. We were all shocked and soon we found that he said it intentionally to let us know that trying to get an easy solution by just attending a seminar was wrong. 　Of course he gave us an intensive meaningful lecture mentioning intriguing anecdotes in his early days with Honda motor company. What he repeated over and over again was that things can be improver only through hands on works. Reading books, attending seminars discussing things with colleagues are all important. But you should know that what teaches you most is the experiences that you have at your work place. You can study how to swim in a classroom but to swim actually you should train yourself in a swimming pool. I kept his teaching in mind since then. It helped me greatly to invent world's most advanced fine ceramics for computers. 　 2) An old lady's mercy 　In September, 1997, I became a Buddhist monk at a temple in Kyoto. Originally it was scheduled for June, but it was postponed because a cancer was found in my stomach and I needed to take an operation to remove that. 　One cold morning in early winter of the year, I was doing mendicancy, which is an important part of training for a new monk. I kept walking on the streets asking people for their favors and mercies. 　It happened in the last minute of the day. I was walking back to the temple with my legs entirely tired. All of a sudden, at the corner of a small park, an old lady approached me and put a coin of 500 yen in my hand. It was about $4. Though it is not a huge donation, but it was a huge help for me at that time. I was so moved by the lady's warm heart knowing that she did it without hesitation for a moment. 　 3) Heaven and Hell 　At a temple, a young monk asked his mentor, " They say there are Heaven for our next life. What is Hell like?" The mentor replied immediately. " According to my teacher there are not huge differences between the two. Physically they look alike from distance but what are different between the two places in people's minds. Heaven and Hell have large bowls with plenty of past. The only tool you can eat it is a pair of long chopsticks over one meter each." "It must be very difficult to eat the noodle with that kind of long chopsticks!", the young monk said. "You are absolutely right, if you try to feed yourself. Actually, that's what people in Hell do. However, people in Heaven don't do that. What they do is they feed people on the other side with those huge chopsticks. It is so easy to feed others on the opposite side of the bowl They will feed you back in the same way. Thus people in Heaven can live in peace. I like this story very much. Heaven and Hell, both exist in your mind indeed. 　 4) I am sure that our mind consists of five factors. 1. Intelligence We acquire it through experiences at schools, workplaces and even on the streets. Books and other media are another source for intelligence. 2. Sensibility Five senses and other sensors of ourselves form our egos. A baby cries when hungry, This is a result of the peripheral area of our ego and premature human beings behave based on those instinct. Grown-ups behave with what your real ego says from the core part of your soul. 3. Instinct Desires to maintain your body system and to protect it from dangers in the outer world. 4. Soul Your real ego that is covered with experiences and absurdity in the real life. 5. True ego What lies in the bottom of our heart. It is full of beauty, virtue and truth. Real you. 　As a baby, you behave with your ego and soul. Instinct functions as the main Engine until you learn sensibility and intelligence. As you grow, the circles get larger and larger. While aging you gradually lose intelligence and sensibility getting back to the core part of yourself. 　 5) A flower and existing 　Dr. Hayao Kawai, one of the scholars I respect greatly, gives me interesting remarks occasionally. One day he said, " I don't know if the existence called myself is performing the role of myself or I myself as Hayao Kawai is an existence. Usually we say here exists a flower. However we could say here an existence is forming a flower. 　Sometimes I feel the same way because I know that I have been supported by so many other things and people．in other words I am merely a result of the will of so many other existences. So I often times feel that am a result of an existence in the form of human being. If you see things around you, you will find thousands of living creatures that are different forms of existence. Existence that has a face of an animal. Existence that has a form of a tree. And most importantly, existences in the form of human beings. The most important thing is to know that we are all dependent on so many other existences. By keeping this simple fact you can live better and your life will be filled with much more satisfactions and successes. Territory :World Sold:China Publishing Details:1700 Yen 248 page Book Size 23mm x 188 mm x 128 mm ISBN -7631-9543-3 July 2004 Inspirational / Business Use our contact forms. Home Our Mission Publication Lines NEWS Mail International Rights Company Data Contact Us This site is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 7.0 or Internet Explorer 6.0. and later versions. Copyright (C) Sunmark Publishing,Inc. All rights reserved.