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    Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck
    Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck
    Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck
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    Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck

    By David Nichtern

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    A friendly, funny, practical guide for creatives and entrepreneurs, written by a four-time Emmy award-winning and two-time Grammy-nominated composer-guitarist-producer who has worked with Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Jerry Garcia, Lana Del Rey, and Krishna Das, among many others. Also a beloved and highly regarded Buddhist teacher, David teaches readers how to integrate their creative process with their spiritual practice and livelihood.

    “How do I make a living doing what I love?”
    “Am I a sellout as an artist if I want to be successful?”
    “How do I integrate my spiritual principles with the art of running a business? And actually, um, how do I run a business?”

    Wondering how to reconcile your calling with your need to make a living wage, or what to do once your art starts selling, or how to achieve success in your field, or what it even means to be successful? David Nichtern offers his lived, learned experience as an entrepreneur, musician, and Buddhist teacher to first help you figure out what “success” means to you and then show you how to get there. He offers advice on the creative process and principles of business and ethics—everything from “listen to the muse!” to “protect your intellectual property!”—and provides mindfulness exercises to help you integrate inspiration and aspiration, vocation and avocation—to go from surviving to thriving.

    Whether you’re a baker trying to grow from the farmer’s market to a brick-and-mortar or a CEO exploring how taking care of your employees can be the same as taking care of your business—if you’re trying to align your spiritual, creative, and financial pursuits and discover what it means to truly live well, this book is for you.

     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWisdom Publications
    Release dateOct 8, 2019
    ISBN9781614295181

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      Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck - David Nichtern

      Part  I

      Basic Principles: The OS for Enlightened Living

      IN PART 1 we’re going to lay some groundwork for our project of integrating creativity, spirituality, and making a buck. We’ll be talking about some basic principles that are pervasive and foundational.

      When I teach these days, I like to say that we’re learning principles, not rules. Rules only apply in a system where the situation remains static, which is rarely the case in real life.

      Principles, however, can be adapted to changing situations, even though the principles themselves remain constant. Gravity, for example, is a principle, not a rule. If you’re on a spaceship, gravity is still present, but it might behave differently. If you understand the principle of gravity, you can adapt it to the feeling of weightlessness you might experience in outer space.

      The underlying principle of this book is that it’s possible to move toward balance, prosperity, happiness, and basic sanity in our lives as human beings. The core of the operating system that will get us there is recognizing how our minds work and how the world works—deepening our understanding of ourselves and the world in which we live.

      Integral to that kind of knowledge is developing a clear vision of where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going; and how clarity, intention, and effort can help bring about a more beneficial outcome for ourselves and others.

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      Joining Heaven and Earth

      Spiritual and mystical suggest something rarefied, otherworldly, and loftily religious, opposed to an ordinary material life which is simply practical and commonplace. The whole point . . . is to show the fallacy of this opposition, to show that the spiritual is not to be separated from the material, nor the wonderful from the

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