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Pixar, Culture, and Bollywood

sandeepsood:

Couple of good articles from the NY Times this weekend

Pixar Gambles on a Robot in Love

Andrew Stanton, who wrote and directed the film, doesn’t care if the kiddies want to hug Wall-E or not when the movie comes out on Friday. “I never think about the audience,” he said. “If someone gives me a marketing report, I throw it away.”

When the Comedy Is Lost in Translation

The worse news for Hollywood is that the new movies may be feeding a non-American tendency in once-dependable foreign markets like France and South Korea. “Pop culture used to be American pop culture,” said Roger Smith, the executive editor and a motion picture analyst at Global Media Intelligence, a research company. “But the rest of the world is figuring out how to make pop culture of its own.”

Bollywood searches for deals in Hollywood

After several good years, entertainment companies in India are finding that they have plenty of money but not enough places to spend it.

True Love and the Transcendence of Duality, by Kim Eng

Is business Ego based?

Dear Eckhart,

My wife and I have interesting discussions about your teachings.  Yesterday, she pointed out something interesting. She asked if the business created with your books, CDs and DVDs is another form of ego. What do you think about this?

Sincerely,
Arnaldo

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Certain organizational structures are necessary to get the teaching out into the world.  When I started teaching there was virtually no structure (except for a park bench), but of course very few people were being reached.  I was quite happy with that, but then the growth of the teaching over the years required more external structures.  Those organizational structures are there to respond to the growing demand for the teaching, not to create the demand.  If the growth of the teaching had come about as the result of creating a bigger organizational structure, that might have involved egotism, but it was the other way around.

It is true that any structure or organization could become self-serving (ego-based), which is to say the driving force behind it would be a desire for expansion, for more followers, more profit, fighting against “competing” organizations (“enemies”) etc.  This, as you know, has happened even to churches and religions.  In such cases, the structure serves no purpose beyond itself.

Ego arises the moment you identify with some form.  The “form” could be a business, a possession, an organization, or any mental image of yourself that gives you a sense of identity, of who you are.  Without identification, there is no ego.

Blessings,
Eckhart

Comments on Patience

In reply to a video someone made on practicing intention.
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Experimenting with intention is a wonderful thing. At it’s best it is similar to a baby playing with no attachment to outcome of her play. The baby plays not to achieve and end result, but rather for the simple experience of it.

You mentioned patience and focus. I’d say that focus is a given, but your ability to attract things will increase when you leave patience behind. It’s not needed.

Patience is nothing more than a series of thoughts that says, “I will endure under these difficult circumstances.” Endure? Endure is only needed if the experience in itself does not bring joy. Basically, you wish shit was moving faster than it is.

The challenge with patience (and I realize that it is just a word) is that it has it’s own frequency - it’s own vibration of energy. And that vibration dims the vibration of your intention because it is attached to result. The whole power of intention is that like attracts like. Your internal world creates your external world.

So if not patience, then what? Acceptance. Acceptance doesn’t mean you don’t take action, it simply means you don’t resist. If something isn’t being attracted into your life, you don’t mentality resist wishing it would be another way. Instead, you keep your focus on the present moment.

Our mind is powerful tool and can do many amazing things. And even more powerful than the mind is the collective consciousness that runs the universe (call it God, or spirit, or what ever). That consciousness is way smarter than our individual intention… so if something isn’t attracting into your world that might be part of the plan.

Bring the attention to the present moment and pay attention not only to your own intentions, but the intentions of the universe that show up in the form of daily signs and gut feelings.

Legacy via Tom Peters

100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money

by Tom Peters
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Consider this a variation on a debate in the Tom Peters Weblog over the number of priorities a person can have. Well, I’m settling it.

One!

Here’s the deal. It’s 5 a.m. (09.28.2004) as I write. I have a day crammed full of miscellaneous (that dreaded word!) activities ahead, ending with a flight from Boston/Logan to London/Heathrow. But the…THE…Pressing Question is: WHAT WILL (in One Sentence) THE LEGACY OF THIS DAY HAVE BEEN FOR TP?

Yes, I believe a Single Day can have as much of a “legacy” as a lifetime. In fact that had better be the case! Why? Because the day…stretching out before me…filled (at the moment) with limitless opportunities…is…ALL I HAVE!

Right?

Just another day?

Hardly!

THIS IS IT!

All those things…grand and mundane…I want to do with my life will either be abetted or thwarted or put off or ignored in the course of…THIS ONE, UNFURLING DAY.

So: What (One Sentence) will Today’s Legacy be…for You?