January 3, 2023by Brian WeinerNo CommentsChanging The World One Thought At A Time., Lessons From The Mountain

When the mind is weak, the situation is a problem. When the mind is balanced, the situation is a challenge. When the mind is strong, the situation becomes an opportunity. BUDDHA

When the mind is weak, the situation is a problem. When the mind is balanced, the situation is a challenge. When the mind is strong, the situation becomes an opportunity. BUDDHA

What are you truly made of?

We learn these things about ourselves as life puts us to the test. Sometimes we pass with flying colors, and other times we are certain that we could have done much better.

Every doctrine, every guru, every everyone will always come straight to the power of the mind. They speak to the value of understanding your current mindset, such that you may make adjustments that will deliver value on countless fronts. 

When the world is running on our terms, and everything is behaving as expected, the problems that arise look like logistics to be contemplated. But when life is on the opposite track, we are more prone to find each of the obstacles as being more ominous and more trepidatious. 

Is it really the size and logistic of the problem, or is it the mindset that sets the scale? In truth, it is most likely both, working in harmony or counter production to one another. 

As Buddha so aptly shares, when you have your head in the game, the problems actually create opportunities for you to stretch your wings and fly. A problem under those circumstances test the mettle of your overall being. It helps you define your internal fiber and understand how and what you have going for you that is helping you to be so on top of your world.

If you are at the low stage and the problems are genuine and the situations continue to bring them, your only choice is to stop and stare fear right in the face, and take on each and every issue that is lurking and find the solution. Work each situation until such time as you are out of the woods and into the clear again.

Happy Monday!

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Written by Brian Weiner
When I was 5 years old, I discovered that the lemon tree in the backyard + dixie cups + water and sugar and I was in business. I have been hooked on that ever since. In 1979, I borrowed $14,000 to create a brand new product... photographic greeting cards with no text on the inside, called Paradise Photography. That was the start of The Illusion Factory. Since then, The Illusion Factory has been entrusted by all of the major studios and broadcasters with the advertising and marketing of over $7 billion in filmed, live, broadcast, gaming, AR, VR and regulated gaming forms of entertainment, generating more than $100 Billion in revenue and 265 awards for creativity and technology for our clients. When I took a break from film school at UCLA to move to Hawaii, my mother did not lecture me. Instead, she took 150 of her favorite aphorisms and in her beautiful calligraphy, wrote them artistically throughout a blank journal. That is the origin of the Lessons from the Mountain series. Since then, on my journeys to the top of a mountain to watch the sunrise, I have spent countless hours contemplating words of wisdom from the sages of all races, genders and political persuasions, constantly accumulating the thoughts to guide me on my life path. I hope you enjoy my books. Please let me know your thoughts, as I highly value your feedback!