The Practice of Conscious Business Relationships | The Conscious Business Challenge (Week 2)

In this week’s challenge, you’re invited to see how you can bring greater Presence into your personal interactions (at work or home).

As Eckhart Tolle often teaches, all of our relationships can be an excellent training ground for spiritual practice. This is particularly so when it comes to business transactions, where there’s a greater tendency to see the relationship as a means to an end and become overly identified with the roles we take.

In this week’s challenge video, Eckhart answers a question about business exchanges and how to avoid taking advantage of one another. He reminds us that what is primary in all relationships is to bring our full Presence into the engagement, and to keep some of our attention on the underlying consciousness beneath whatever formal roles we and the other party may be playing.

WEEK 2 PRACTICES
This week, we challenge you to keep in mind that “your entire life can become your spiritual practice,” if you approach your relationships both professional and personal in this manner. Here are some suggestions you can focus on:

1. Practice empathy. Eckhart recommends we “feel our way into the other person,” that is, to sense the animating consciousness within the other person and yourself.

2. Look deeper than your roles. It’s easy to get preoccupied with the outer form or physical appearances, as well as with the psychological form or personalities. By remaining alert and still, Eckhart teaches, we access the transcendent dimension while playing our part and avoid turning things into a strictly transactional meeting.

3. Remember karma yoga. Relationships, especially business exchanges, can quickly become stressful or in other ways negative if we become too attached to a desired outcome. Citing the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, Eckhart helps us circumvent this trap by “letting the fruit look after itself” and making Presence our primary purpose.

Whether you’re simply grocery shopping or negotiating the purchase or sale of a home, ultimate success in business depends on the same thing: balancing whatever you’re doing on the surface with an awareness of your shared Being with every human being you encounter. Enjoy our challenge this week, and join us on the community tab this Sunday for this week’s reflection prompts!

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