{"id":12,"date":"2009-05-01T09:10:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T09:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/05\/buddha-as-businessman.html"},"modified":"2009-05-01T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T09:10:25","slug":"buddha-as-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/buddha-as-businessman.html","title":{"rendered":"Buddha as Businessman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this lecture interesting, and Gregory Schopen&#8217;s tie is amazing. <br \/><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3GeZGFvbDzo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3GeZGFvbDzo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/object><!--more-->Why is it that Buddhist practitioners and contemplative people are sometimes not so great at budgets, profit and loss, marketing, and all the other things that make successful businesses?I was reminded the other day &#8211; as the director of a nonprofit &#8211; that with very few differences, a nonprofit is completely a business, and needs to be run as such.What do you think? Is business for cut-throat, non-spiritual pirates? Or do spiritual people need to learn how to use spreadsheets as part of their practice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this lecture interesting, and Gregory Schopen&#8217;s tie is amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-right-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Buddha as Businessman? - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/buddha-as-businessman.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buddha as Businessman? - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I found this lecture interesting, and Gregory Schopen&#8217;s tie is amazing.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/buddha-as-businessman.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-05-01T09:10:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ethan Nichtern\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Buddha as Businessman? - One City","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/buddha-as-businessman.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Buddha as Businessman? - One City","og_description":"I found this lecture interesting, and Gregory Schopen&#8217;s tie is amazing.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/buddha-as-businessman.html","og_site_name":"One City","article_published_time":"2009-05-01T09:10:25+00:00","author":"Ethan Nichtern","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/buddha-as-businessman.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/buddha-as-businessman.html","name":"Buddha as Businessman? - One City","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-05-01T09:10:25+00:00","dateModified":"2009-05-01T09:10:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#\/schema\/person\/52c98770e14a482ace0de36ea672938f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/buddha-as-businessman.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/buddha-as-businessman.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/05\/buddha-as-businessman.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Buddha as Businessman?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/","name":"One City","description":"The Interdependence Project","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#\/schema\/person\/52c98770e14a482ace0de36ea672938f","name":"Ethan Nichtern","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/13e\/13ee2d28169053f9c0745fa2e72f15b7x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/13e\/13ee2d28169053f9c0745fa2e72f15b7x96.jpg","caption":"Ethan Nichtern"},"description":"Ethan Nichtern is the author of the acclaimed book One City: A Declaration of Interdependence (Wisdom Publications, 2007) and is currently finishing a novel. 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