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Three Mind-blowing Quotes From Steve Jobs’ Spiritual Zen Master That May Change Your View of Reality

Alberto García 🚀🚀🚀
The Philosophical Inn
4 min readFeb 10, 2024

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Behind every great person is one great mentor that no one talks about.

One of those mentors was Kobun Chino Otogawa.

The zen master of Steve Jobs.

I have been researching his philosophy of life for some time.

And I’ve discovered three lessons that have blown my mind.

Let’s start.

1. Your rareness is your superpower

The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it and manifest it is your responsibility.” — Kobun Chino Otogawa (book: Embracing Mind).”

Kobun was one of the people who dissuaded Steve Jobs from becoming a Zen monk.

He advised him to be himself and integrate his Zen practice with his passion for computers.

Steve, who had always been an Outsider, learned to use his rareness Card as his As Card.

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Alberto García 🚀🚀🚀
Alberto García 🚀🚀🚀

Written by Alberto García 🚀🚀🚀

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As I read it, my soul’s voice whispered, “There is a sunken ship full of treasures in the deepest sea of your consciousness.”

Inspiring. I have felt this too but how often we shut off that voice to listen to the world and how we should act, speak and think, when really our power is in our uniqueness. Great article thank you.

That’s why he spent long periods meditating: he was fishing inside himself for those parts of the whole, those inner treasures, and with them, he built an empire.

I am a strong advocate of meditation. The way it has transformed my life is more than amazing.
These are some really great lessons Alberto, thank you for sharing.

The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it and manifest it is your responsibility

Well good, because I'm a big weirdo and I'm not changing! Lol