The document discusses introducing Buddhist principles for managing workplaces and cultivating spirituality. It outlines challenges in management like stress and introduces the Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Path of Buddhism as a framework. These teachings emphasize right view, intention, speech, action and livelihood. Employers have obligations to employees and employees to employers. Wealth should be used wisely and not cause harm. Meditation, ethics, and developing emotional intelligence can help create enlightened workplaces and relationships.

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3. Introducing Spirituality at
Workplace

5. A Buddhist Model for Management
 Jayadeva de Silva
M.SC,MBIM,FIPM,FITD
3rd National Conference
on Buddhist Studies
Thursday 12th – Friday 13th July 2007

6. Challenges for Management
 Low Productivity
 Mismatches
 Attendance
 Punctuality
 Low trust
 Stress
 Emotional Intelligence
 Attitudes
 Gender Issues

10. Four Noble Truths
 1. Duhkha or suffering is
everywhere
 2. Tanha or craving or desire is the
source of suffering
 3. Relieving craving ceases
suffering--when craving ceases
entirely through dispassion,
renunciation, and non-
dependence, then suffering
ceases
 4. The path leading to cessation of
suffering is the Eightfold Path

11.  Happiness
 Path to happiness
 Reason for Unhappiness
 Unhappiness

12. Eight Fold Path
Like spokes in a wheel

13. Eight Fold Path
as a framework of guidance
 Three Main Goals
 face life objectively
 live kindly
 cultivate inner peace

14. Eight Fold Path
 1. Right views
 2. Right intention
 3. Right speech
 4. Right action
 5. Right livelihood
 6. Right effort
 7. Right mindfulness
 8. Right concentration

15. Eightfold Path
 1. Right views or Right understanding
 I recognize the impermanence of life, the
mechanism of desire, and the cause of
suffering.
 2. Right intention
 My thoughts and motives are pure, not tainted
by my emotions and selfish desire.

16. Eightfold Path
 3. Right speech
 I speak honestly and kindly, in positive ways,
avoiding lies, exaggeration, harsh words.
 4. Right action
 My actions do not hurt any other being that can feel
hurt, including animals; I avoid stealing and sexual
conduct that would bring hurt.

17. Eightfold Path
 5. Right work or livelihood
 My livelihood (occupation) does no harm.
 6. Right effort
 With moderation, I consistently strive to improve.

18. Eightfold Path
 7. Right mindfulness
 I will keep my attention, awareness, and mind
focussed on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness:
the body is impure, sensations result in suffering,
the mind is impermanent and all dharma do not
have a substantial self.
 8. Right concentration
 I use the disciplines of meditation (dyana) and
focused awareness to contemplate the nature of
reality more deeply.

19. •You always have a choice on how you will react to
pressures, and conduct yourself each day.
•It’s about how you use the freedom of choice in the
moment to become a better worker, and to find your own
path to enlightenment.

20. Five Precepts
 To abstain from taking life
 To abstain from taking what is not given
 To abstain from sexual misconduct
 To abstain from false speech
 To abstain from intoxicants which cloud the mind

21. Pancha Seela (5S)

27. Singalovada Sutta
by Lord Buddha

28. Jethawanaramaya
India

29. Jethawanaramaya
India

31. Sigalovada Sutra
Friends
Teachers
FamilyParents
Clergy
Employees

32. Employer’s Obligations
 Assign work according to capacity of the worker
 Provide proper wages /meals
 Provide medical facilities when sick
 Distribute delicious food
 Relieve from work when necessary
(Singalovada Sutra)

33. Manager of Choice
Jayadeva de Silva

34. 5 Competencies
1 Talent scouting
2 Relationship building
3 Trust building
4 Skill building
5 Organization Brand Building

37. Employee’s Obligations
 Rise before the employer
 Go to sleep after employer
 Accept only what is given (not to steal)
 Do the assigned work diligently
 Spread the good name of the employer
(Sigalovada Sutra)

40. Wealth – Why ?
 To sustain yourself
 To sustain family & relatives
 To be able to do charity
 To feel secure
 To discharge civic responsibilities
 To avoid being stingy
(Singalovada Sutra)

41. Matching
 Match Income with Expenditure
 Match Expenditure with Income

42. Expenditure
 ¼ - Consumption
 2/4 - Investment
 ¼ -Save for emergencies

43. 4 Fold Pleasure From Wealth
 Awareness that it was earned through your
mental , physical labour & effort
 Awareness that you are using such wealth for
consumption and charity
 Awareness that you do not owe any money
 Awareness that it was earned by just means
(Singalovada Sutra)

44. 7 Forms Of Other Wealth
 Proper concentration
 Devotion to the religion
 Discipline
 Reluctance to commit sins
 Fear to commit sin
 Learning
 Donating

45. Reasons for Poverty
(
 Liquor
 Loafing
 Socials
 Gambling
 Bad friends
 Laziness

48. Adult Learning & Buddhism

49. EQ

51. We are what we think
 We are what we think. All that
we are arises with our
thoughts. And with our
thoughts, we make our world.”
- Buddha

52. INTENTIONS
THOUGHTS
ACTIONS
REACTIONS
Impressions are
the basic
inclinations. They
give birth to
intentions
Intentions
trigger
thoughts
Thoughts lead to
actions. Quality of
thoughts decide
quality of actions
The way
we meet
the results
is the
reaction
Reactions
get stored
in our
psyche,
results in
shaping the
personality
IMPRESSIONS
Spiritual values to
be embedded here
Change of
Attitude
Improving
the quality
Reorganizing
the priorities
Broader vision and
Selflessness

53. Ethics

54. Seven Sins
1 Wealth without work
2 Education without character
3 Politics without principles
4 Commerce without morality
5 Pleasure without conscience
6 Science without religion
7 Religion without sacrifice

55. Becoming an Enlightened Worker through Buddhist
Teachings
.
• First recognize that you are responsible for your
own future.
• Second, recognize that you always have a choice.
• Part of the Eightfold Noble Path is choosing Right
Livelihood.
• Do great work, all the time.
• Do not take more than you should.
• Action always beats inaction.

56. Cultivating Enlightened Work Relationships
.
• True leadership is service to other people.
• Wise people admit they don’t know everything.
• Stay open to learning.
• What goes around comes around.
• Give unselfishly to your coworkers.
• To influence others, you must have competence
and character.
• Listen more than talk.

57. Creating an Enlightened Workplace
.
• We are responsible for our own development as
employees.
• Never put profit before people.
• Your organization should embrace diversity.
• Buddhists are not sexist.

58. Creating an Enlightened Workplace
.
• When two coworkers quarrel, be the mediator and
peacemaker.

59. Meditation

65. Until next we meet
 May you be safe and protected
 May you be happy and peaceful
 May you be healthy and strong
 May you carry your life with ease and grace
Jayadeva de Silva

66. djayadeva@gmail.com
077 7272295
Thank You

67. Salutations!