About The Author
Geabe Michael Roach is a Princeton graduate and the first American to receive the Geshe, or Master of Buddhism, from a Tibetan Buddhist monastery after 25 years of study. He is the author of The Diamond Cutter, a global bestseller which tells how he helped start a $200 million business to help the poor. Michael currently serves as CEO of the Diamond Cutter Institute, which around the world teaches the secrets to personal success and great relationships.
About The Book
The Perfect Partner. Don't find them, Plant them. And if you already have a partner, Make them perfect-With karma. Stop the uncertainty of looking. Stop putting up with less than you really want your partner to be. Everything can change, with the wisdom of ancient Tibet. It's all here.
Foreword
I grew up in Arizona, had a normal American youth and the normal encounters with girls, and then after high school went east to attend Princeton University. I excelled in my schooling, and was even awarded a medal for scholarship from the President, at the White House. It seemed like my life was charmed, that I was headed for great things. And then one night all of that changed. I was in a meet-ing at the university chapel for volunteers who wanted to help do something about world hunger. nger. The priest took a telephone call, and then came and touched my arm and asked me to come with him to his office. There he told me that my mother had just died. My charmed world was shattered. In the time that followed, I received two more phone calls one that my younger brother had died, and another that my father had passed as well. In this sea of grief it seemed that staying in college, and in the life I had expected, held little meaning. I left school and journeyed to India, searching for answers. I had the good fortune to meet some Tibetan monks, and gradually became a monk myself. I stayed in Tibetan mon-asteries for more than 25 years, and was the first westerner in six centuries to receive the degree of Geshe, or Master of Buddhism, from the great monastery of Sera Mey. To finish this degree I had to undergo many tests such as a 3-week public examination by hundreds of the monks, all in the Tibetan language. My main lama in the monastery, Khen Rinpoche, proposed for me an additional test: Could I go to New York, start a diamond company, and make a million dollars, to prove that I understood the principles of karma which I had been taught in the monastery? We would then give the money to Tibetan refugees to help with their food and other needs. Re-entering the world, especially the world of New York City and a business as potentially dirty as the diamond business, was the last thing I wanted to do so I avoided his advice for many months. In the end, though, the Lama's word prevails, and I had to go. I did help to start a company, called Andin International Diamond, and helped bring it towards its $200 million in an-nual sales. The company was recently purchased by War. ren Buffett, one of the world's wealthiest people. With the money I earned at the company, I was able to help refugees and many other people. Our firm was one of the fastest-growing companies in the history of New York, and naturally that drew some atten-tion. I was approached by Doubleday Publishers and asked to write a book about how we achieved our success by using the principles of karma the principles of helping others. And so I wrote a book called The Diamond Cutter, named after a famous sutra which explains karma and its flip-side, the Buddhist idea of emptiness. This book has become a business bestseller around the world, translated into some 25 languages, and is used by millions of people; it is especially popular in the Chinese edition, and has helped many people achieve financial independence. Inevitably, people began to ask me to come and give talks about the book. In the years since it was written, I and my colleagues at the Diamond Cutter Institute have conduct-ed business seminars and retreats for thousands of people in many countries. During these programs we often hold small break-out groups called "Wisdom for Daily Life," where par-ticipants have a chance to ask questions about their own com-panies and careers. One day, during a program in China, a woman in one of these groups asked if I would answer a question not about business, but about her relationship with her husband. Did the Diamond Cutter Principles the principles of karmic seeds also apply to her family life? I answered that of course they did; that karmic seeds in our mind are responsible for everything and everybody around us. Suddenly a dam broke and everyone in the group began asking pent-up questions about the most intimate issues of their relationship with their spouse or partner. In that mo-ment I realized that taking care of people's spiritual needs-and needs like housing and money and food was not enough. Our intimate relationships are the source of perhaps the greatest happiness in life; and they can also be the source of our greatest pain.
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