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Steve Jobs is a famous Syrian Buddhist Author: Anton Blagoveshchensky

The founder of Apple gave earthlings a personal computer

Many of you have probably heard this name. Well, a phone called " iPhone have seen almost everyone. This phone, as well as many other devices, including tablet computers, laptops and players, was created by Apple, which was led by Steve Jobs (he also founded it in the distant seventies). Thanks to a non-standard approach to doing business, the company managed to turn phones and computers into real cult objects. And Jobs himself, who led the corporation almost until the end of his days, was perceived by many iPhone owners almost as a deity. Even people who are far from computers, almost without hesitation, answer the question: “What is the name of the head of Apple? And almost no one knows the name of Samsung's CEO.

Buddhism and lies

Unfortunately, recently the head of Apple is not called Steve Jobs - on October 5, it became known about his death. Jobs' fans different countries brought flowers, notes and, of course, apples to Apple stores and the house of the founder of the company - this particular fruit is the symbol of the company.

However, the praises of Steve Jobs both on the Internet and in the print media have been published more than enough. Among them, it was difficult to meet critical reviews about the former head of Apple. There will be no criticism in our note, but we will try to find out something interesting about him.

The Huffington Post has collected some little-known facts about Steve Jobs and his life. For example, not everyone knows that Jobs's father's name was Abdulfattah Jandali - he was a Syrian. Steve himself was brought up in a foster family, while, allegedly, his future parents lied during the interview, saying that both had higher education. In fact, the potential adoptive mother did not have a higher education.

Jobs himself, as it turned out, "inherited" a bad habit from his adoptive parents. For work on one of Atari's projects, which was actually done by his friend Steve Wozniak (later co-founder of Apple), Jobs paid his friend $350, while Wozniak's share was $2,500. Before starting work, the friends agreed that they would share the fee in half, after which the future business executive said that he was paid only $ 700, although the real amount that he received in his hands was $ 5,000.

Another "highlight" of Jobs, journalists call his experience of using drugs - in particular, LSD. Steve became interested in the hallucinogen after he returned from India having actually converted to Buddhism - with a clean-shaven head and in matching clothes. “Apple's slogan for many years has been the phrase 'Think different'. Perhaps it was the use of narcotic drugs that helped Jobs to look at problems from a unique perspective, ”the Huffington Post believes.

Few fans of Steve Jobs also knew that he is a pescatarian, that is, a person who does not eat the meat of warm-blooded animals, but at the same time allows himself to eat fish, shellfish, as well as eggs and milk.

Finally, the popular writer in the West, Mona Simpson, based on the novel “Anywhere But Here”, a film was made with Natalie Portman in one of the main roles, this is Steve’s younger sister. The fact that he has a sister, Jobs learned only at the age of 27 years. Steve and Mona did not advertise their relationship.

It is worth returning briefly to the religion that Jobs adopted in India - after meeting the Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, he began to profess Buddhism. According to the Buddhist rite, Steve married Lauren Powell. IN " Buddhist style Jobs' funeral was also held. It is noteworthy that neither the place nor the time of the funeral was announced - Apple representatives announced in advance that the ceremony would be closed.

Popular rumors

Immediately after the death of Jobs, rumors began to circulate on the Internet that in fact Steve had not died on October 5, but a few days earlier. However, due to the fact that the presentation of a new model of the iPhone smartphone was scheduled for October 4, it was decided to postpone the announcement of the death of the ex-head of Apple.

In the very name of the new mobile phone model, which, contrary to expectations, was called not the iPhone 5, but the iPhone 4S, Internet users found a rebus. It turns out that the name iPhone 4S could be deciphered as "iPhone 4Steve", that is, "an iPhone for Steve."

However, the most popular version is the assumption that Jobs was an alien who accidentally got stuck on Earth and amused himself by creating devices that did not look like what others did. Well, on October 5, a rescue ship flew for him.

Steve Jobs legacy

Jobs's fortune in June of this year was estimated at 8.3 billion dollars. This money will go to his sister, wife and children, according to Western media. At the same time, netizens, in addition to condolences, began to speak in the spirit that Jobs's relatives "did not deserve" a colossal inheritance.

For comparison, pop king Michael Jackson divided his savings between relatives (and not only) in a very unusual way. For example, he left nothing to his father and ex-wife, but his beloved chimpanzee received two million dollars. The rest of the money was sent to a special fund run by Michael's mother, and a substantial amount was spent on charity. It is possible that the wife of Steve Jobs will also do charity work, although he himself, when he became the CEO of Apple, on the contrary, closed all the charity programs of the corporation.

Source Russian newspaper, No. 230, October 13, 2011, p. 12

Information about Steve Jobs

Name at birth:
Steven Paul Jobs
Occupation:
entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Apple, NeXT and Pixar
Date of Birth:
February 24, 1955
Place of Birth:
San Francisco, California, USA
Citizenship:
(The United States) USA
Date of death:
October 5, 2011 (age 56)

While flying home, I thought about Buddhism and somewhere between China and Russia, she remembered that the brilliant Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was a Buddhist, studied in India, and he had his own guru. From there he returned completely new thinking, and this is what allowed him to give the world completely new gadgets!

For the first time I learned about this brilliant person in the English textbook "Upstream" Advanced English in the third year. The textbook was quite modern and was full of interesting little articles. That's how I found out aboutmacand its creator, who studied in India...

Original taken from natalyorion in Steve Jobs in my life and Buddhism in his

But then the word "macintosh" meant nothing to me. Today I use it every day. I practically never leave him. Let it be a little outdated, bought back in 2009 in the States, but it is already so dear and indispensable.

Then the iPhone 3 appeared in my life. Then it was something very unusual. The screen is touch, there are books, a playlist, a huge number of applications - it was all just Wow!

2011, October the whole world says goodbye to the legendary personality. Me too. I hold a cute white iPhone in my hands and I understand that this is nothing but his Great Idea, his offspring, expressed in the form ... And I use it, and I'm very comfortable with it. He gave the world new technologies.

If Jobs hadn’t burned so hard, hadn’t worked so hard, all this would have remained unknown to the world! We wouldn't know iPhones, iPods, iPads, Macs...

What made Jobs different from his contemporaries?

He was different rebellious spirit.

He asked questions.

He was looking for the same "live differently" and this led him to Buddhism.

He went to India to "know himself and find the truth."

He left everything and experienced a real pilgrimage - all the difficulties, poverty, when all life depends on alms.

“Returning to America after seven months spent in Indian villages, I realized the madness of Western man - along with his ability to think rationally. If we sit down and concentrate, we can see how excited our mind is. And if you try to calm him down, it will only get worse. However, over time, he still calms down, and then you begin to hear more subtle things. That's when intuition blossoms. You see things more clearly and live in the present. The mind does not work so fast, you feel the greatness of every moment. In general, you see much more than before. This is an internal discipline, it needs to be learned.”

His self-confidence and perseverance found sponsors for computers.
He is fanatically devoted to his own ideas.
Buddhism helped to gain a spiritual core, thanks to which he managed to stoically endure all the ups and downs in his life.

Jobs assured that the path of the Buddha is open to any mortal, and said that life is just a moment.
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't fall into the trap of dogma that says to live on other people's thoughts. Don't let the noise of other people's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know who you really want to be. Everything else is secondary."

He was able to understand the mistakes made and learn from them.

He has always been distinguished clarity of thought.

The sharpness of thought remained until the end of his days.

Many of the sayings of Steve Jobs are popular all over the world.

I really like the saying about Love And faith.

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I am convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved my job. You need to find what you love. And this is as true for work as it is for relationships. Your work will fill most of your life and the only way to be completely satisfied is to do what you think is a great thing. And the only way to do great things is to love what you do. If you haven't found your business yet, look for it. Do not stop. As with all things of the heart, you will know when you find it. And like any a good relationship they get better and better with age. So seek until you find. Do not stop".

Most the best!

“Stay hungry. Stay reckless. And I have always wished that for myself. And now that you are graduating from college and starting over, I wish you the same. Stay hungry. Stay reckless."

And most impudent!

"I would trade all my technology for a meeting with Socrates"

“If you sit down and just watch yourself, you will find how restless your mind is. And when you try to calm him down, the situation will only get worse. If, after some time, the mind still calms down, the subtlest things will open to you. Your intuition will sharpen, your vision will become clearer, you will be able to feel yourself in the present moment of time - here and now. Your thoughts will slow down, your consciousness will expand, and you will see immeasurably more than before.

This is how Steve Jobs described the effect of meditation to his biographer Walter Isaacson.

A special type of meditation - mindfulness meditation, originates in Zen Buddhism and Taoism. Jobs told Isaacson about it shortly before his death, by which time he had been practicing meditation for many years. This is evidenced by the journalist and writer Jeffrey James, who discussed with Jobs in the early 1990s how Zen and programming are related.

In those days, this was something exotic, James admits, but even here Jobs was ahead of his time. After all, today the positive effects of meditation are proven by neuroscience, and giants such as Google, General Mills, Target and Ford specifically train their employees in much the same meditation that Jobs discovered decades ago.

How to meditate?

Judging by the quote Isaacson quoted, the meditation practiced by Jobs is very similar to the one taught to James by the famous martial artist Yang Jin Ming. Here is his lesson, which includes six steps:

Step 1

Sit cross-legged in a secluded, quiet place, preferably on a flat cushion to reduce back strain. Start breathing deeply.

Step 2

Close your eyes and listen to the inner monologue, to the thoughts that "jump" in your head: work, home, TV ... This is the chatter of your fussy "monkey mind". Don't try to stop her, at least not now. Just watch your mind jump from one thought to another. Repeat this exercise for 5 minutes a day for a week.

Step 3

Without trying to calm the whirl of thoughts, try to shift your attention to your "ox mind" - to that part of your mind that thinks calmly and slowly. "Ox mind" simply observes the world around him. He does not give estimates, does not look for meanings, he simply sees, hears and feels.

When you open your eyes, the world around you will seem a little different, new and even somewhat strange.

Most people do not even suspect about him, although he can open up to someone in moments of upheaval, when the "monkey" mind falls silent. But even when we are completely at the mercy of our “monkey mind”, when his commands “Hurry! Let's!" do not let him come to his senses, the “ox mind” imperceptibly continues unhurried, thorough work.

Step 4

As you become aware of your "ox mind", ask him to gradually slow down the work of the "monkey mind". Geoffrey James, for example, was helped by such a technique: he imagined how the “ox” slowly wanders along the road, and this spectacle lulls the “monkey mind”. Don't be upset if he wakes up from time to time. Monkeys, they are. However, you will find that he has become more resting than fussing and making noise.

Step 5

After calming your "monkey mind", continue to focus on the "ox mind". And then the breath will slow down. You will feel the touch of air on your skin. Perhaps you will feel the blood running inside the body. If you open your eyes, the world around you will seem a little different, new and even somewhat strange. Let's say the window becomes just a rectangle filled with light. It does not need to be opened or closed, repaired or washed. It just is - here and now. Just like you, here and now.

Step 6

It will take some time to reach this state. But if you did everything right, then you won’t feel at all the time that has passed from the moment you turned on the timer until the moment it turned off. Gradually, day by day, increase the duration of your meditation. Surprisingly, no matter how long it lasts, you will not feel the passage of time.

Steve Jobs Speech to Stanford Graduates

Three Benefits of Meditation

Regular practice of mindfulness meditation provides three clear benefits:

1. You will get rid of stress. Even if difficulties arise in life, they are unlikely to develop into serious unrest.
2. Forget about insomnia. Geoffrey James testifies that with regular practice, 2-3 seconds is enough for him to fall asleep.
3. You will begin to think more clearly and more accurately evaluate everything that happens in life. For Jeffrey James, mindfulness meditation helped move away from destructive relationships in his personal life and leave a job that made him feel unhappy.

Perhaps more than others, the fact that the current head of Apple Tim Cook offered Jobs part of his liver was remembered. Jobs responded to Cook's offer with an angry refusal, saying that he would never do it. And although after a while he nevertheless agreed to a transplant operation, many decided that his refusal was due to the fact that the religion he preaches (Buddhism) forbids such interventions in his body.

We are unlikely to know the real reasons for Jobs' refusal. However, the fact that he adhered to Eastern practices also influenced the way he coached.

Jobs often practiced mindfulness meditation to reduce stress and clear his mind.

Biographer Walter Isaacson quoted Jobs in the book:

If you just sit and watch, you will see how limitless your thinking is. If you try to calm him down, it will only get worse. But over time, thinking itself calms down and you learn to control it.

At this moment, intuition wakes up and you see everything around much more clearly than you saw before.

Jobs describes a type of meditation practiced by Zen Buddhists and Taoists. He has been doing it for many years. What's more, he popularized the practice so much that companies like Target, Google, and Ford began teaching their employees how to meditate on an ongoing basis.

And although it seems that the idea of ​​corporate meditation sounds rather strange, there is still something to it.

Jeffrey James, a journalist and website editor, was able to talk to Jobs about meditation long before he died. Here's what he said it looked like technique practiced by Steve Jobs:

1. Sit in a quiet place. You may want to put a pillow under you to make you more comfortable. Take a few deep breaths.
2. Close your eyes and listen to your inner monologue. Your brain will go over incoherent events that happened recently: TV shows, books you read, conversations with friends. Don't try to interfere with it.
3. Instead, calmly move from thought to thought. Make it a ritual and spend five minutes every day in this way.

Over time (a week or two), you will learn to control your internal monologue, and then you can move on to more advanced practice:

1. Now, when you hear incoherent thoughts in your head, try to make them quieter and smoothly move away from them.
2. Freeing the brain, focus its attention on the sounds around you, smells, sensations in the body. You may begin to feel the wind on your skin differently, or the sound of the refrigerator running. This is a sign that you are doing everything right.
3. Another sign that you are doing everything right: time in meditation flies unnoticed.

I wrote about a similar meditation technique, and it really was useful.

Frankly, over time, I stopped meditating for one reason. The first few weeks you do not see the result, then it finally comes, and you learn to control thoughts in meditation, to focus on various rustles and smells. But after a while, progress slows down again, thereby killing the motivation to do it further.

I did wrong to stop meditating and Lately looking for a new incentive to start doing it. And knowing that Jobs also practiced a similar technique is a great motivation to start.

The founder of Apple was a pioneer not only in the field of computer technology. He paid great attention to the control of his brain and consciousness.

Steve Jobs was one of the smartest people in the world of computer technology. In terms of influence, only Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg could compete with him. He became known for his legendary ability to create innovative, groundbreaking products.

But what journalists talked about less was that Jobs was the first world famous person who performed esoteric experiments on his consciousness. And I wanted to expand its limits at the expense of “technologies” that are suitable for this.

Jobs considered himself a Zen Buddhist and used the culture's focus and meditation techniques on himself every day. He himself said that it helped him manage stress, think more clearly. He even believed that meditation helped him unleash his creativity!

The Financial Times once reported that Jobs considered meditation a "discipline" that needed constant learning and improvement. The most famous biographer of the founder of Apple, Walter Isaacson, says that Jobs once explained to him what the essence of meditation is:

“If you just sit and watch your feelings, you will quickly realize that your mind is very restless. If you try to calm him down and stop the flow of thoughts, it will only get worse. But if you keep practicing, over time you will start to make progress. You will be able to capture more subtle matters of the world around you, you will begin to feel it better. Your intuition will begin to surprise you. Your consciousness will become clear and pure. You will learn to live in the present moment. You will be able to see much more than you saw before.

As this recollection of Isaacson makes clear, Jobs practiced a type of meditation called “mindful practice.” This technique is at the heart of Zen Buddhism and its Chinese predecessor, Taoism. Jobs spoke to his biographer long before his death and admitted to practicing meditation for decades.

Journalist Jeffrey James says that during one of his conversations with Jobs, which took place back in the mid-1990s, he compared Zen to programming. Like, in order to quickly write competent code, you need to enter special condition clarity of thought. And without meditation, it is almost impossible to deal with the mess in the head, he said.

It is now obvious that Jobs lived ahead of humanity not only in the field of technology, but also in the field of controlling his mind. The most authoritative scientific journal in the United States - Scientific American - recently analyzed dozens of papers by researchers who studied the effect of meditation techniques on the brain. It turned out that the most direct and positive: meditation literally changes the structure of the brain, neuroscientists say.

Meditation is now becoming mainstream. It is run by employees of Google, General Mills and Ford. Those. they think about the effectiveness of the methods that Jobs used decades ago.

You don't need expensive therapy sessions paid for by your employer to appreciate the benefits of this ancient practice. World-famous martial artist Yang Ming spent many hours interacting with Jobs. Now he says that the computer genius has developed his own method of practice: it is more effective than "standard" methods. And Yang mastered it.

Here is a tutorial that will teach you how to meditate just like Steve Jobs did.

First level

1. Sit on the floor with your legs crossed. You should be in a quiet place, you can sit on a low pillow (this will reduce the load on your back). Take a deep breath.

2. Close your eyes and listen to your inner monologue. Thoughts spinning in your head all the time: at work, at home, in front of the TV. Don't try to stop them. This is how your “monkey mind” works. Instead of trying to stop the flow of consciousness, just watch from a distance as the brain jumps from one thought to another.

Repeat this practice every day for a week. Five minutes at a time will be enough.

Second level

3. After a week, you should already try to take your “monkey mind” under control and turn it into a “bull” mind. Focus on the part of your mind that you were observing - slowly and detachedly. This part is responsible for the perception of things in the present moment.

Most of us realize this only when we experience something really amazing, something that stops our constantly jumping “monkey” mind from thought to thought. Each of us experienced moments when he completely forgot about the world around him and enjoyed the current moment. This is how the bull mind works: it works slowly, forms deep thoughts.

4. You will understand when it starts to work out. It will become much easier to shift your attention to the surrounding reality. During practice, you will notice such little things as breathing, blood flow. Air on your skin. Opening your eyes, you will see around a somewhat changed world. He will be deprived of the usual evaluative perception. The world just is. You are simply existing.

For example, the window will now be just a square filled with light. You will not analyze whether it is open or closed, in need of repair or not. It will just be. And you just will.

To achieve this state, you need to devote about 10 minutes to meditation at a time. Unfortunately, it will take some time after practice, and your consciousness will begin to occupy the "monkey mind" again. Everything around will again stop into a tedious and tiresome noise. This is fine. Think of meditation as a way to "reboot" your brain for an hour or two until it returns to its original state.

5. To achieve a regular transition of consciousness from the “monkey mind” to the “bull mind”, it will take a lot of effort. But it's worth it. At this stage, you will forget what stress is. New troubles will no longer look like a giant and ever-growing lump of problems. You will be able to control your mind. Fall asleep instantly.

And remember one more thing. Yes, in order to maintain this ability to “think like a bull”, you need to spend at least 10 minutes on classes per day. But if you feel like your brain is full right now and you need to keep working, don't go out for a smoke break. It is better to have a meditation session for yourself for 2-3 minutes. It's much more efficient.

Third level

6. If you continue the practice, after a while (it will take several months) you will notice that you no longer feel the pressure of time. The timer doesn't seem to exist. You will be able to meditate for hours on end, and you will not even notice how quickly this time will race.

As a result, your mind will be clear and pure at all times. You will be able to evaluate the events taking place in your own life from all sides. You will get the much-desired peace of mind from the hustle and bustle - wherever you are and whatever you do.

Geoffrey James says he tried this practice for himself. He considers these to be the most important effects: firstly, stress is completely gone and forgotten; secondly, he was able to fall asleep at will in just two or three seconds; thirdly, James has improved relations in the family and no longer feels any pressure: neither social nor professional.

We cannot promise you that practicing mindfulness and mindfulness will make you as powerful as Jobs was. But his technique is definitely able to change both you and your life.