Lessons From Vishen Lakhiani’s New Book The Buddha And The Badass: Chapter-1 (Mindset)

Welcome to the first of a few series, where I’m going to be sharing with you ideas from the book The Buddha and the Badass.

So, these blog posts are designed to be educational and to take an idea from each chapter of the book and give it out to you directly.

If you like this blog, you are more than welcome to leave a comment, and buy the book it is an amazing book 📘

Now before we dive right in, there is a really important idea in chapter 1, that involves this mysterious piece of paper.

This is Vishen Lakhiani’s most important piece of paper in his life, unfortunately, he cannot show it to us since he says it’s “Confidential”, but I’m going to come back to this in a moment.

First, I want to tell you an interesting way in which Vishen Lakhiani wrote this book, so Vishen Lakhiani believes the idea that you have to read a book in order is nothing more than a B.R.U.L.E (Also known as a bull shit rule).

However, Vishen Lakhiani does admit that this rule applies to most books, but not The Buddha and the Badass, in this book he does something completely different, he wants you to hack this book.

When you open it, he wants you to read the intro, see what every chapter is about, then see if a chapter resonates with you, and if it does then that’s the one you dive into.

For example, maybe you care about bending reality, the idea of using your mind to accelerate the probability of success so that the work that you do moves with ease.

Or maybe you don’t give a damn about that, and what you care about is activating your inner visionary, which means to go into your beliefs and your ideas of just how much you can do and inflate them.

Or maybe you care about attracting your allies, how to create a mission, company, product, and life that is magnetic to people who can support you in that vision and mission.

Or maybe you care about discovering your soul print, the real reason your soul chose your life in your body, to come into this human existence.

Now what’s interesting about Vishen Lakhiani’s book, The Buddha and the Badass, is that it goes deep in spirituality.

But it’s written in a way where all of those ideas are acceptable to the wider world of business today, Vishen Lakhiani has trained with sports stars, from every major American sports team.

He’s trained world-class C. E. O.’s, Hollywood actors, and Mindvalley is being used by world-class organizations such as the U.S. Air Force and some of the world’s biggest fortune 500 companies.

So, when Vishen Lakhiani talks about spirituality he’s speaking about it in a code that makes it acceptable to everyone, but also wakes people up from how much power within us gets suppressed, by traditional business.

We talk about productivity, software, and tools to increase employee output, but the real way you magnify what you’re able to do in the world, are the tools within.

So, let’s get to chapter 1, and the first tool, this is about discovering your soul print, and I want to tell you a story about this tool.

This particular tool is based on the idea that your soul chose to be born in your body for a specific reason.

And, just like all of us have a unique fingerprint, all of us have a unique soul print, this is the foundation of your soul, and the foundation of your life, that your soul desires to see emerge in this particular lifetime.

Now, the problem is most people are completely unconscious and unaware of their soul print, and so they don’t live life in tune with what their soul wants, and this is what happens.

You start going off in the wrong way, following the rules of culture, following the advice of people who may not know what’s the best for you and force you to fit in, to stay common, and to follow the road most often traveled.

And what does your soul do? Your soul gets irritated, and it causes something to break, Vishen Lakhiani calls this “The beautiful destruction”.

Examples of this could be that your soul might mess with your relationship, health, or your business.

To set you on the right path, In Zen philosophy, this is called a Kensho moment.

It’s the idea that we can have an awakening through Satori, or we can have an awakening through Kensho.

We understand that we are on the wrong path, but what if this pain is nothing more than an impulse from your soul to auto-correct you?

Now, what if you could avoid the pain altogether, understand your soul’s unique soul print, and then create your life, business, and career based on what your soul wants to express?

This is the exercise in that chapter, and Vishen Lakhiani learned this from a Sudanese refugee, if you follow global politics you know that the government of Saddam was overthrown.

But, before this dictatorship was overthrown this guy was a freedom fighter, and the dictatorship was trying to assassinate him, he sought asylum in Canada which is where he lives now.

He changed his name to Dreamer Starlight (Which I think is a really cool name), and he taught Vishen Lakhiani this technique in 2016, then he made Vishen Lakhiani do an exercise.

And at first Vishen Lakhiani didn’t understand the point of the exercise, and he invited Dreamer Starlight for 45 minutes to have coffee with Vishen Lakhiani.

And at the brink of Vishen Lakhiani thinking, he had wasted his time, he realized what has appeared in front of his eyes.

Vishen Lakhiani then said, “This has massively changed my life”, and the 2 of them spent the next 4 to 6 hours going deep.

Then Dreamer Starlight made Vishen Lakhiani realize that he was not living his life based on his true values.

When Vishen Lakhiani did this exercise he successfully identified the key components of his soul print for him, and they were unity, envisioning, and transformation.

Then Dreamer Starlight showed Vishen Lakhiani how to take these 3 values and plug them into his work, so that everything he did would transform, now this happened in the summer of 2016.

And back then Mindvalley was going through one of the hardest years of its life, they were having failure after failure, and were bleeding money, shortly after doing this exercise.

This is when Vishen Lakhiani started aligning with the vision for his soul and shortly after magical things started happening, Vishen Lakhiani ended up inventing a new type of learning system called Mindvalley Quest.

This was roughly 5 months after doing this exercise, and it hit all the category’s unity, transformation, and envisioning, shortly after that year Mindvalley started growing at a remarkable pace.

Now, was it the fact that Vishen Lakhiani was now aligned with my soul print, or was it mere coincidence? I’ll let you decide when you read this chapter.

IN CONCLUSION

Now, even if you’re not an entrepreneur, maybe you’re a C. E. O., founder, freelancer or you work for a company, if you care about your work, and you want to master something.

You need to understand how your soul print injects itself into your work, and makes you a true master at your craft.

All the great filmmakers, artists and writers, scientists, the people who are doing the best work at companies around the world, and the best entrepreneurs, whether consciously or unconsciously, are operating in alignment with their soul print.

The question is do you know yours?

And

Do you want to unleash your true hidden potential, and positively impact your future?

If not then oh well that’s a shame, thanks for reading anyway, I hope you’re happy with the life you have now. (Which statistically the numbers are “OK but not that great” just take a look at this…)

WHICH PERCENTAGE ARE YOU IN?

But if you do want to have the dream life that you and the people you care about truly deserve.

Then join Vishen in The Buddha and the Badass, even if you don’t read any other chapter and you only look at chapter 1, that alone will probably change the direction of your life.

Come on! Stop having life happen to you, and start taking life in the direction you want!

When are things going to change if you’re always on the fence? I beg of you, do this for your loved ones and your own well-being, click the image or the link and take the leap of faith in the right direction.

You’re going to be blown away at how impactful this book will be to you, and the people you care about, I 100% promise you will never look at the world the same way again.

Thank you for reading, Click the image or the link now, and I’ll see you on the other side. 🌉

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