Game plan -- Mountains are mountains: roots of everyday stress -- Introduction: applying Zen -- Zen and professional leadership -- The power of Zen -- Mountains are not mountains: transforming conflict into opportunity -- Everybody must get foxed -- The greater the doubt, the greater the enlightenment -- Seeing the forest, but not missing the trees -- Mountains are mountains, again: from structure to anti-structure -- Returning to the marketplace -- All's well that ends well -- Coming from nowhere to somewhere -- Glossary -- Appendix: Koan translation ("Te-shan carrying his bundle")
Summary
It is said that in traditional Japan the samurai embraced Zen because it helped them to be fearless in adversity, to act quickly and decisively, and to keep focused on their ultimate goal. In White Collar Zen, Steven Heine shows how, by applying Zen principles in our working lives, we can achieve the same results for ourselves. Heine describes the way Zen embraces two different yet harmonious paths. The Way of the Hermit teaches detachment--the mental clarity you need to view your situation dispassionately and impartially, to perceive who is an ally and who is a competitor, to understand what
