Janna · Nov 8, 2026
THIS IS THE MESSAGE WE WOULD LIKE TO SEND THE WORLD
This is the message we would like to send to the world which we are fond of and love. All of us must love each other, live responsibly for our planet, help each other to do more good deeds, and search for the supreme happiness to the awaken spirit and mind. Everything in this world is impermanent, born and destroyed.
For all these reasons, right now and right here we will talk about a method to practice - MEDITATION. Meditation is the path to attain supreme happiness, which is not only for oneself, but for all people when our mind attains liberation, egolessness and total self-forgetfulness.
Egolessness is no-self. Everyone can feel there is a self inside. The modern lifestyle and some people have created a culture of "self" where the self is all important. People tend to become differentiated, have their own personalities, becoming more selfish and isolated.
Looking back to older societies, people were afraid of being different. They tended to behave and act in similarity to each other, even wearing the same styled shirt, having the same hair style, or using the same vocabulary in speaking.
However, in these days, if a person dyed her hair blue, I may dye my hair purple; a person wears a 2 sleeves shirt, I may put on a 1 sleeve shirt. Such actions help to define our differentiation, which is our "self". When the self is set way too high, people tend to make each other suffer more and more.
We need to understand one thing that supreme happiness doesn't have a place for self. We become everyone else. We don't speak, but love everyone. We don't need to declare our life, but live for everyone. What we call the supreme happiness is the enlightenment.
The ANZ Bank will be a representative for all of us to send this message to the world:
“People who are blessed or superior please understand that you can influence many other people's lives. Therefore, the more blessings you have, the more responsibly you should live.”
Everyone agrees that while we seek to live a responsible life for other people, our mind is balanced and inclined to egolessness. We don't live for ourselves any more, and this helps our blessings to become infinite. If there is a second or an hour we stop to live for ourselves, our blessing will be decreased. If there is a second, a minute, an hour we wish to live for everyone else, our blessings will be increased, from one life to another, to the infinite. As a result, the infinite blessings turns to supreme happiness, or enlightenment.
In order to live in such a noble way and to keep our mind stable, balanced and righteous, besides moments we are stressed and busy with work, we need to meditate because meditation helps our mind be balanced.
Meditation helps us to reduce stress.
The truth is that people with much money will worry more because they are afraid of losing money. Having money helps people not to worry about buying each meal but instead make them worry about losing money. Most people who possess much money will invest into a business or something. Sometimes when a person reaches his own investment capacity, he will deposit his money into ANZ bank so that the money will be continuosly invested. Depositing money into a bank is asking for another person to invest the money because the bank will loan the money to someone else who has an opportunity to invest and make more profit.
Therefore, the bank takes the burden from us because it co-ordinates and invests our money to make more and more profit to pay us interest while keeping our money safe.
When the return of our own investment is good, the bank manages our money well, and lenders invest our money efficiently, the whole society will move forward having abundant food and clothing. We hope this thinking will become real, so that our country will become more affluent and every citizen will have enough clothing and food. Next, we can share our prosperity to other brother countries. We shall remember there is no border to stop us doing good deeds.
We may be blessed to wear beautiful clothes, drive luxurious cars, and have people beattentive to us as we speak. We feel these things are valuable and they make us feel happy.
The truth is that we have many worries. If these worries add up with selfishness, superficiality and meanness, they will destroy our brain much faster than they will do to a peasant. The reason is because the peasant isn't tricky. He works hard on the land, then goes home, eats and sleeps peacefully. He grows old but he doesn't become forgetful. In contrasta blessed person has opportunities to do business, to consider pluses and minuses. If the person is also selfish, tricky, alcuting constantly on winning or losing then such a mind will destroy his brain quickly.
Somehow, if our mind is only filled up by good thoughts then our brain becomes brighter, smarter, and happier. In contrast, if our brain contains bad, mean and selfish thoughts these will destroy our own brain cells. Our brain cells will cause their own sickness and gradually be destroyed sooner than the expected time, thus causing us a miserable life.
While we are busy doing business or investing, we also spend much of our time worrying for ourselves, families, relatives as well as pay taxes to the government.
Many matters we need to take care of and be responsible for may cause us stress. Meditation can help us solve this problem. There would be nothing better if we could not only be talented and successful businesspeople, paying attention to small details, but also keeping our minds peaceful and happy. What would be better in life then making lots of money, running a business successfully allwhile keeping our mind peaceful? It would be difficult to attain these 3 things all together.
However, if we meditate, we can attain these 3 matters: money, a successful business and a peaceful mind. There would be nothing more valuable than attaing these 3 things. As a result, there will be a price to pay for attaining these 3 things at the same time: we need to have morals and meditate. Our investment brings benefits to many other people, our personal life also helps many people, and meditation is our fellow-traveller in each day of our life. Therefore, we encourage each of our esteemed guests to spend time to meditate regularly.
First, meditation saves our souls.
Second, meditation brings happiness to our families.
The fact that sometimes we are stressed from our business, we go home and take the stress out on our families. We may yell at the husband and scold our children.
A home which is our most fundamental place for support will be filled with yelling, being strained and scolding due to our stress from outside work. No matter how our job will be, if we can keep our mind peaceful and we are not under high pressure from work, we will not bring home any of our stress. We will not take the stress out on our families thus destroying our last happy place.
In order to protect our happy home, our psychology must be stable. If so, we need to meditate because it helps our mind become brighter to solve problems in our work and life. Meditation helps us to forecast many things which others can't guess. Theory is only one part of doing business while intuition also plays a very important role.
For example, there will be a time when some people ask us to join them to invest in a real estate plan. They will talk to us as if it's a good deal, promise to make much money, about how promising the land will become, etc. All of a sudden, we have unhappy or anxious feelings inside. Who makes us feel this way? No one. There is no other information; all information is only from the people who are asking us to join them to invest.
However, we feel insecure and decide not to join them. Two years later it turns out that the person who asked us to invest disappears. The investment is unsuccessful. Therefore, our insecure feeling was right. This is our blessing and intuition. Businessmen need such intuition.
We can predict about 70% of personality of a person who we would like to cooperate with or not. Our intuition can help us to foretell if the person will deceive us in the future. Right now the person may be a gentlemen and nice to everyone; however, he can betray us when it comes to benefits. Therefore, due to our intuition, we are able to decide at which level we should cooperate with this person; thus avoiding failure by not joining the business.
Intuition in doing business is very important because it helps us think and calculate less. Listening to a matter, we can guess how it will end right away. Meeting a person, we can tell how the person is. Listening to a plan, we can predict how it will turn out due to our intuition although we do not make any calculation at all. For a businessman to possesses such precise intuition will be more valuable than gold, even diamonds.
Where does the intuition or the insight come from?
First, it is a result of meditation. Second, it comes from our blessing. Meditation helps us not to become greedy. It is strange that we are doing business, making profits, but we are not greedy. Most of people who are doing business are greedy, especially trying to make high profits. However, meditation provides a strange result. We are still doing business, looking for profits, but we don't become greedy people. As a result of not being greedy, we can escape many traps.
Buddhism has said that intelligence will be covered by desires so that people can't realize the underlying truth.
For example, if a person takes us to land where he plans many investing options. At this moment if our greed arises, it will take over. We see nothing else but great profits we will make if we decide to buy the land, build something, and then sell it. We then decide to invest in this plan. This may result in a failed investment.
However, if we are not greedy as we follow Buddhism and meditate, no matter how much profit they promise us, our decision will not be affected by our greed. When our greed doesn't prevail our mind becomes brighter and we will realize the plan is incomplete. There will be unexpected risks in the future, which can make the plan fail. Therefore, we withdraw the investment. It would not be surprising that our intuition is correct. In this case, our desire which is our greed doesn't arise, thus our mind become brighter so that we can judge the matter right away to figure out the result.
Meditation also offers us: if we don't have ill-will, we will not get angry at anyone; we do not become greedy while still fulfilling our responsibility and calculating profits or losses. We can still possess a qualification, and the dignity, talent and high-rank of a businessperson but deep down in our souls, we are not greedy at all. We will become a wonderful businessperson, pearls of the world. A person who makes money but who is not greedy for money.
As the same, when we talk about a governer who holds power in his hands and is not greedy for power. These people are pearls of the world. They are looking for wisdom and knowledge but are not being self-important.
Buddhism offers us such thing, so does meditation. In conclusion, we must meditate. Not only must we meditate but also the whole world needs to meditate.
However, in order for the world to listen and follow, we need to practice first.
Who are we? Why do we need to practice first, and then tell the world to follow? Because we are blessed people and businessmen, who will influence many other people, whose voices will be heard better by our communities. Our ancestors said that whatever wealthy people said would have a certain power on others. Their words would have more weight than others. This becomes a principle as well as the truth.
We do hope this world is peaceful, happy and loving of each other. It can happen be like tbis when the whole world is filled by businessmen who are not greedy for money, people who are not greedy for power, and intellectuals who are not self-important.
How can we have such wonderful people? Only when they know about meditation.
How do they know about meditation? Because someone else askes them to meditate.
Who can ask other people to meditate? They are wealthy and blessed people.
Why do such blessed and wealthy people agree to meditate? Because these people realize clearly that: meditation will free our soul and our world.
Written by:
Janna
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