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When we think about Buddhism, we don’t often think about monks and nuns conjuring spells or curses to break up lovers, exorcise demons, prevent unwanted pregnancies, or kill enemies. But for over two and a half millennia, magic and healing rituals have been an integral part of everyday Buddhism. They were also key to Buddhism becoming a cosmopolitan religion, flourishing in areas beyond the Indian Buddhist heartland. The magical aspects of Buddhist history, however, have been ignored or dismissed by scholars of Buddhism and by Buddhists themselves, resulting in a distorted view of the traditions we may study and practice today.

In his new book, Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and Enchantment Through the Ages, Sam van Schaik, a textual historian and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism, makes a compelling case for why we should pay attention to Buddhism’s magical heritage—and what we lose by casting it aside. Having previously worked for the International Dunhuang Project, van Schaik currently heads the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library in London. He is the author of Tibet: A History, Tibetan Zen, The Spirit of Zen, and The Spirit of Tibetan Buddhism.

In our latest podcast episode with Tricycle’s Editor and Publisher James Shaheen, van Schaik debunks misperceptions about early Buddhism by showing how magical literature can offer a more holistic and realistic view of Buddhism from the ground up. He also paints a vivid picture of the role monks and nuns may have played in the magical-gig economy as well as how we can view mindfulness meditation in a comparable way—as the magic of our current age.

Sam van Schaik: Buddhist Magic and Why We Shouldn’t Cast It Aside

Copying what your competition is doing just leads to being second best.

Only leaders who are willing to think differently can out-innovate everyone around them. Thinking the same thoughts produces the same results. Leadership is all about being The Brave Creative out in front in your marketspace (and your career) versus doing things the way everyone else does them.

Business doesn’t need more copycats. Business needs more Dreamers.

If You're Copying Others, You're Betraying Yourself

If you can’t lead yourself, you can’t lead others. We have no business leading others into greatness if our own personal lives are a trainwreck.

Being successful in the game of life precedes great leadership. Face whatever personal issues you’ve been avoiding head on and clean up on all fronts.

Hope this message helps you build an extraordinary company and an exceptional movement in these uncertain times.

Leader Lead Thyself

Persistency wins.

Work on your resilience muscles so you hunt down the opportunity that exists within adversity. When you most feel like giving up is when you absolutely must carry on.

I do believe that the real value of any work or challenge you face is what the process makes of you.

By continuing when you’re faced with doubt, by persisting when you feel like giving up and by optimizing when you think it’s good enough -- we grow closer to our finest selves. And show the world what’s possible.

Fortune Favors the Relentless [and Punishes the Passive]

Scale your craft. Business ALWAYS rewards the best.

This is a splendid time to invest in your professional education and personal development.

Your industry rewards the magic you bring to it. Get better at what you deliver and the world will blaze a path to your door. It really will.

Those producers who rest on their laurels will soon be irrelevant.

Those performers who lift their game, advance their skills and escalate their craft will find they have more business than they can fathom. And a lifestyle they adore.

1 Tactic to Thrive in a Recession

As you leave the crowd in hot pursuit of a rare-air life, you will be misunderstood. Our world was built by people who the masses called ‘weird’.

Living your heroic ambitions and materializing the potential you have sleeping inside of you - especially in these times - isn’t a game for amateurs.

Nope. It’s for the pros.

Each day you step into the place where you work, you have the opportunity to nurture – and awaken – the artist that inhabits you. We all have a core craving to express who we are and to create something special. Part of being human.  Step out into the world each day and create your masterpiece. The world will be better for it.

Advanced Art is Always Misunderstood

In this episode, I deconstruct the phenomenon of emotional plasticity that will help you accelerate your personal growth + development.

Over the past number of years I’ve been a bit of a lone voice in the wilderness, evangelizing a message that emotional healing is absolutely essential to expert performance.

Heartset work [introduced in The 5AM Club] allows you to dissolve the repressed regret, disappointment, shame, anger and sorrow that we all experience as we advance through life.

Working on a better Mindset for 2021 while neglecting your Heartset sets up a situation of self-sabotage where your intellect knows what you should do yet your emotional world keeps you limited.

Understand Emotional Plasticity to Optimize Your Personal Growth

Find your circle of genius.

Behavioral scientists have discovered the phenomenon of “emotional contagion.” This describes the fact that, unconsciously, we adopt the beliefs, feelings and behaviors of the people we spend most of our time with.

Want to get ultra-fit? One of the finest ways is to join a running group or make friends with athletes. Ready to be happier? Then remove the energy vampires and complainers from your life. Set to build a truly world-class company? Then start spending far more time with those who have been there and done it. Their mindsets and ways of being will automatically influence you, over time. And associating with people whose lives you want to be living shows you what’s possible. And once you know more, you can achieve more.

Your Associations Predict the Level of Your Success

Even when people disappoint you and life hurts you, keep your heart open. This is how heroes roll.

Heartset Work is an Act of Heroism

Most of your industry peers are scared. They are hoping things will return to normal (they won’t). They are holding back (they shouldn’t).

If you do the right things you’ll not only protect your business from the acute disruption, you’ll strengthen the entire enterprise and set yourself up to fly when the calamity ends.

A crisis is actually an excellent time to grow a more agile and efficient company.That utterly wins when this is all over.

So where do you start?

I’d recommend that you begin with resetting your psychology. Because your daily performance is always a reflection of your most dominant beliefs. And until your faith is larger than your fears you’ll be stuck in uncertainty.

Master the Mindset of Possibility for Elite-Level Results

Bestselling author of 15 books (including The 5AM Club), globally celebrated leadership expert and philanthropist; Robin Sharma is considered to be one of the top 5 leadership experts in the world. His work is embraced by rock stars, royalty, billionaires and many celebrity CEOs. 

Deeply passionate about helping children in need live happier, healthier lives, Robin founded The Robin Sharma Foundation for Children (RSFC) as a registered charitable foundation. 

Visit www.robinsharma.com to learn more.