W11 Reflection: Entrepreneurial Journal

This weeks study material was very interesting to me. I found that a lot of it was innate information I had not fully realized. I was especially happy to see my score on the quiz improve, though I had to ask the teacher for a second go as I was having difficulty with the quiz submitting on its own.

I particularly enjoyed learning that the richest place in the world is graveyards, full of unrealized dreams and goals. I initially thought this would be because one cannot take with with them upon departing this earth, but this new perspective was interesting to me because I knew it, I just never really truly realized it before. I don’t know how many goals of mine will be left unrealized after I depart the earth, I have always thought of it from a standpoint of not taking anything with me.

There is a Buddhist practice I’ve always wanted to try. The name escapes me but, they will create a huge mural that covers a floor, made from colored sand. It takes hours, perhaps even days to do. It can be anything you like, a geometric pattern, a portrait, a landscape. Anything.

When they finally complete it they take a broom and sweep it all away. No pictures, nothing but the memory of it. It is meant to teach the creator to not be materialistic, as I understand it.

No matter what we create with our life, it will all be swept away by time. But what if, we only had so long to create our sand art? What if at some random time another monk came along and started the sweeping for us? And we never got to finish? How would we feel about how we prioritized our art? How would our perspective about it be swept away be changed by the idea that we don’t know when that will occur?

Just a thought really, but the graveyard being the richest place stuck with me because of it.