Will being a businessman prevent me from achieving enlightenment?
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outcome
"Enlightenment is not a commodity to be bought or sold; it blooms when you abandon the transactional mind and embrace a total, fearless commitment to the quest."
According to Osho, being a businessman doesn't prevent enlightenment; it's the businessman-mind - bargaining, profit-calculating - that blocks it. Enlightenment isn't a commodity to buy or an investment for gain. Cultivate the warrior spirit: a noncompromising, all-in readiness to stake everything and drop profit-thinking. When seeking becomes total and not transactional, mind falls silent and the door to awakening opens.
Your job doesn't block enlightenment; treating it like a deal does—give your whole heart instead of bargaining.
Why this matters practically
- Stops you from treating meditation and relationships as transactions.
- Encourages wholehearted risk and commitment, deepening practice.
- Prevents postponing awakening until after material goals.
- Encourages wholehearted risk and commitment, deepening practice.
- Prevents postponing awakening until after material goals.
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