Mastering Successful Work: Skillful Means: Wake Up!

Mastering Successful Work by Tarthang Tulku, was created to help readers live cheerfully, work with good results, and profit from knowledge in any circumstance. Offering clear, powerful guidance on how to make work into a path of transformation and dynamic realization, Mastering Successful Work sets forth principles and practices that apply to almost everyone and to virtually every discipline. For those who have been successful, it offers opportunities to discover a quality in work that gives a new sense of meaning.

This book shows how to make work into a path of realization and transformation- an art form that blends practical results, deep enjoyment, and inner fulfillment. It presents a step by step approach to cutting through obstacles, developing our inner resources (awareness, concentration, and energy), and getting inspiring results that benefit everyone. Immensely practical, Mastering Successful Work includes over 80 exercises, most of which can be done on the job. Accessible to everyone, but meditators who have wondered how to apply meditation to work will find much value here.

Part One sets forth central themes of knowledge, time, and awareness

Part Two introduces structures for accomplishment: paying attention, taking responsibility, discipline, communication, and sharing knowledge.

Part Three presents exercises for transforming attitudes and approaches: recognizing and overcoming negative patterns.

Part Four includes more advanced supplemental exercises, leading up to tools for transformation, and concluding with a list of good business practices. Together, the motivation chapters and the exercises have a structure and progression that can be followed by individuals working on their own or incorporated into Skillful Means seminars and programs.




This is a companion volume to Skillful Means, by the same author.

Tarthang Tulku, Rinpoche is Buddhist teacher born in Eastern Tibet in 1935. He left Tibet for exile in India in 1958. While a refugee in India Rinpoche taught at Sanskrit University, Varanasi, and began reprinting endangered Tibetan texts. In 1968 he moved to the United States where he has lived and worked ever since. Rinpoche has founded more than 20 organizations, preserving and promoting Buddhist wisdom both in Asia and in the West. A pioneer in communicating the wisdom of his tradition to secular audiences, Tarthang Tulku is the author of more than two dozen books, including Gesture of Balance; Time, Space, and Knowledge- A New Vision of Reality; Kum Nye Tibetan Yoga; Skillful Means, Revelations of Mind, and Caring.