Great post here from my friends over at Click to Client

The true color of networking is often revealed after the event itself.

The emails that get traded, the connections we make, and the relationships that continue to grow.

Here are 10 things to do immediately after attending a networking function (conferences, seminars, business clubs).

10 Things to Do Immediately After a Networking Event



 
 

So I was watching one of my all-time favorite movies last night "Point Break" with Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves.

Total kick-ass movie!

This movie is one of those cult classics, alongside Roadhouse (another Swayze flick), Office Space and Princess Bride, that's chock-full of one liners. It's action-packed and is just a helluva lot of fun to watch.

In it, Reeves plays an undercover FBI agent, Johnny Utah, looking for a group of bank robbers who also happen to be surfers.

He befriends the surfers before realizing they're the bad guys.  His new best bud is the pack leader, Swayze's character, Bodhi...they call him the Bodhisattva because he's always searching...searching for the ultimate ride.

Now, this post is actually not about the movie nor the actors, but rather about Swayze's character's name - Bodhi.

I've heard the name before - Steely Dan has a tune titled Bodhisattva ...

 
... check out a pretty cool video of the song here

... and I've always really dug the name - I wanted to name our current dog Bodhi, after Swayze's character...but he was labled with Otis instead.

Problem is, is that I never really knew what was behind the name Bodhi.

So I did a little research, courtesy of Wikipedia and I discovered that the name is quite fitting of what we do at The Million Mind March.

Now, this may be nothing new to you, but I've never studied Buddism, so it was new for me and I figured it might be new to a few others as well.

Bodhisattva, as I've already hinted at, comes from Buddhism, and while there are slightly varying divisions of Buddhism, the meaning of Bodhisattva is basically the same throughout -

The Bodhisattva is a person with a considerable degree of enlightenment and seeks to use their wisdom to help other human beings to become liberated themselves. The Bodhisattva is an already wise person who uses skillful means to lead others to see the benefits of virtue and the cultivation of wisdom.

Again, there are some slight variances of this definition, but this is the crux of it.

Neal Pollock, who has written on Tibetan Buddhism, explains the Bodhisattva with this story -

"The nature of the Bodhisattva is apparent from a teaching story in which three people are walking through a desert. Parched and thirsty, they spy a high wall ahead. They approach and circumnavigate it, but it has no entrance or doorway.

One climbs upon the shoulders of the others, looks inside, yells "Eureka!" and jumps inside.

The second then climbs up and repeats the actions of the first.

The third laboriously climbs the wall without assistance and sees a lush garden inside the wall. It has cooling water, trees, fruit, etc. But, instead of jumping into the garden, the third person jumps back out into the desert and seeks out desert wanderers to tell them about the garden and how to find it.

The third person is the Bodhisattva."

So, in a nutshel, Bodhisattva = enlightened being; wisdom being; and by some definitions, it is a being that has not yet reached total enlightenment, because he is refraining from nirvana in order to save others, and it is in saving others that he reaches total enlightenment, or Buddhahood.

Now let's take a look at The Million Mind March ... straight from the website -

"The Million Mind March is a focus society with a vision to inspire 1-million fellow Soldiers of Prosperity to bury the words, "I can't" and to unify as a movement of change, to deliver wisdom, reciprocity and abundance to all who would be free and who share in the collective ideal of greatness."   (Go here to read the rest)

So, do you ever have those...what Oprah calls an epiphany...where you suddenly realize some moment of clarity?

Well, I just had one...why I like the name "Bodhi" and why I was drawn to The Million Mind March.

Dare I say that, for me, M3 and what it stands for, is Bodhisattva.

M3 is way of being.  It is enlightenment.  It is delivering wisdom to help others.

So, how cool is that?

A cult classic film with the likes of Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze, can actually teach you something!