Steve Jobs in my life and Buddhism in his. The founder of Apple gave earthlings a personal computer

Steve Jobs- famous Syrian Buddhist Author: Anton Blagoveshchensky

The founder of Apple gave earthlings a personal computer

The current issue of our weekly column, contrary to the announcement, will not be dedicated to "complaint books" on the Internet, but to one single person whose name was Steve Jobs ( Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs) .

Many of you have probably heard this name. Well, the phone called “ iPhone"Saw almost everything. This phone, as well as many other devices, including tablet computers, laptops and players, were 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 objects of worship. 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 answer the question practically without hesitation: “What is the name of the head Apple? And the name general director Almost no one knows Samsung.

Buddhism and lies

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

However, more than enough praises for Steve Jobs were published both on the Internet and in print media. Among them it was difficult to find critical reviews about former leader Apple. There will be no criticism in our article, 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 Zhandali - he was Syrian. Steve himself was raised in a foster family, while it is alleged that his future parents lied during the interview, saying that they both had higher education. In fact, the potential adoptive mother higher education did not have.

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 completed by his friend Steve Wozniak (future 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 split the fee in half, after which the future business tycoon reported that he was paid only $700, although the actual amount he received was $5,000.

Journalists call another “highlight” of Jobs his experience of using drugs – in particular, LSD. Steve's interest in the hallucinogen appeared after he returned from India having actually converted to Buddhism - with a clean-shaven head and in appropriate clothes. "Apple's slogan for many years has been 'Think Different.' Perhaps it was the use of narcotic drugs that helped Jobs see problems from a unique point of view,” suggests the Huffington Post.

Few of Steve Jobs' fans also knew that he was a pescetarian, that is, a person who does not eat meat from warm-blooded animals, but still allows himself to eat fish, shellfish, as well as eggs and milk.

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

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

Popular rumors

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

In the very name of the new mobile phone model, which, contrary to expectations, was called not iPhone 5, but iPhone 4S, Internet users discovered a rebus. It turns out that the name iPhone 4S could stand for “iPhone 4Steve,” that is, “iPhone for Steve.”

However, the most popular version is that Jobs was an alien who accidentally got stuck on Earth and amused himself by creating devices that were not similar to what others were making. Well, on October 5, a rescue ship arrived for him.

Steve Jobs's legacy

Jobs's fortune in June of this year was estimated at $8.3 billion. This money will go to his sister, wife and children, Western media believe. At the same time, Internet users, in addition to condolences, began to speak out in the spirit that Jobs’s relatives “did not deserve” the colossal inheritance.

For comparison, the king of pop Michael Jackson divided his savings among 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 Steve Jobs’ wife will also be involved in charity work, although he himself, when he became Apple’s CEO, on the contrary, closed all the corporation’s charitable programs.

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

Information about Steve Jobs

Birth name:
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)

From Steve Jobs' speech to Stanford University graduates (2005)

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like this: “If you live every day as if it were your last, someday you will be right.” The quote made an impression on me and since then, for 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every day and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And as soon as the answer was “No” for several days in a row, I knew that something needed to change.

Remembering that I will die soon is the most important tool that helps me accept complex solutions in my life. Because everything else - other people's opinions, all this pride, all this fear of embarrassment or failure - all these things fall in the face of death, leaving only what is really important. Memory of death - The best way avoid thinking that you have something to lose. You are already naked. You no longer have any reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I received a scan at 7:30 am and it clearly showed a tumor in the pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. Doctors told me that there was no cure for this type of cancer and that I only had three to six months to live. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order (which for doctors means prepare for death). It means trying to tell your children what you would say in the next 10 years. This means making sure that everything is arranged safely, so that your family has as easy a time as possible. It means saying goodbye.

I lived with this diagnosis all day. Later that evening they did a biopsy - they stuck an endoscope down my throat, went through my stomach and intestines, stuck a needle into my pancreas and took a few cells from the tumor. I was passed out, but my wife, who was there, said that when the doctors looked at the cells under a microscope, they started screaming because I turned out to have a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that can be cured with surgery. I had surgery and now I'm fine.

Death came closest to me then, and I hope the closest in the next few decades. Having lived through this, I can now say the following with more confidence than when death was a useful but purely fictional concept: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die. And yet, death is the destination for all of us. No one has ever been able to escape it. This is how it should be, because Death is probably the best invention of Life. She is the cause of change. She clears away the old to make way for the new. Now the new is you, but someday (not too long ago) you will become old and you will be cleansed. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't fall into the trap of dogma that tells you to live in 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 what you really want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, I read an amazing publication, The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was written by a guy named Stuart Brand who lives nearby in Menlo Park. This was the late sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was made with typewriters, scissors and Polaroids. Sort of like Google in paper form, 35 years before Google. The publication was idealistic and full of big ideas.

Stewart and his team made several editions of the Whole Earth Catalog and eventually published the final issue. It was the mid-70s and I was your age. On the back cover was a photograph of an early morning road, the kind you might catch cars on if you were adventurous. Beneath it were these words: “Be ambitious. Be reckless." This was their farewell message. Be ambitious. Be reckless. And I always wished this for myself. And now that you are graduating and starting over, I wish this for you.

Apple founder Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday in the United States, will be buried in accordance with Buddhist traditions, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the contemporary art portal ArtLyst. Steve Jobs died after a long illness at the age of 56. His relatives still have not disclosed the burial place of the cult manager. By his beliefs, Jobs is a Buddhist. He accepted this religion in 1973 during his trip to India.

According to some media reports, Steve Jobs' funeral will take place this weekend. Only those closest to the deceased will attend the ceremony.

In 2003, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but the tumor was successfully operated on. Nevertheless, Jobs's health deteriorated, and in August of this year he left his post as head of the corporation.

In order to talk about the achievements of this person, you will need several articles. To tell about his life views, worldview crises and spiritual searches, even a few books are not enough. To understand how the greatest computer genius Steve Jobs lived, let’s go through the milestones of his megabyte biography.

iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad... The frantic demand for these products can be compared to the excitement about the identity of its creator.

"Steve Jobs. Empire of Temptation"

10 books have been written about him and 10 films have been made. The latest film is called “Jobs. Empire of Seduction" starring Ashtony Kutcher. In Dnepropetrovsk, the film premiered on September 18 at the Pravda-Kino cinema. According to director Joshua Michael Stern and screenwriter Michael Whiteley, the film was supposed to show how "Steve Jobs went from wayward hippie to co-founder of one of the most successful companies."

Film critics reproach “Empire of Seduction” for being too schematic. However, the ambiguity of this personality is shown perfectly: as soon as you begin to admire the ingenuity of a computer genius, he commits actions that just make you want to leave the cinema. As for the sketchiness of this film, by pulling the threads you can untie the knot. For those who do not want to psychoanalyze Jobs, the filmmakers offer Alternative option- laugh, sometimes be sad, admire the eccentric acting, and just get inspired and create what you have long dreamed of.

Steve Jobs. Childhood

The main features of the biography of Steve Jobs are quite well known. In the maternity hospital, the parents abandon the child, but the adoptive family takes loving care of the child. One day, coming home, Steve told his adoptive mother that he was not needed by his own parents, which means he was not needed by anyone. They objected to him and made him believe in his own chosenness: “You don’t understand. We chose you specifically."

Then, as usual, teenage problems, transfer to another school, the first invention - a telephone that allows you to crack telephone codes and make free calls around the world. The rebellious spirit is inherent in many people, especially in adolescence, but revolutions are carried out by a select few.

Steve Jobs: Zen Buddhism as a philosophy of life

While studying in college, Steve became interested in Zen Buddhism, and he came to the realization that the world is a system in which people are controlled. Reluctance to obey leads Steve to another rebellion - he drops out of college.

The first company Steve went to work for was called Atari. Those who are not indifferent to the evolution of technology will certainly be interested in technical solutions, to which Jobs came, however, the philosophical context is no less curious. The Atari director later recalled: “He was a philosopher, unlike many with whom I worked. We often talked about free will and predestination. I argued that everything is predetermined, that we are all programmed. And if you know for sure, then you can predict the actions of other people. Steve thought differently."

Where did this “different” take Jobs? Steve goes to India in search of a spiritual teacher. Returning to America six months later, Jobs was acutely aware of the difference between the two worldviews. Introspection oriental people, deep meditations aimed at cognizing the great and the small at the same time - this was the East. What about the West? Feverish attempts to solve problems with the mind, a mind that rushes about in the bustle... Jobs reflected that the uneducated Indian peasants have more wisdom than Western minds crowned with the laurels of science.

“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 you sit down and concentrate, you can notice how excited our mind is. And if you try to calm him down, it will only get worse. However, over time, it does calm 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 doesn't work so fast, you feel the grandeur of every moment. In general, you see much more than before. This is an internal discipline, it needs to be learned.”

Steve Jobs in India

Film critics are right, the director of “Empire of Temptations” only outlined this topic, but it was the trip to India that changed Steve’s worldview. At the same time, the film showed something else: the phrase said by a friend, “Do you remember India,” a golden field - Jobs gets up from the ground and, throwing himself into the arms of golden wheat, exposes his head to the rays of the sun. Heightened senses, an open heart... Leaving for India, Jobs formulated the purpose of leaving in a completely Socratic way: To know yourself and find the truth. By the way, the already famous Jobs later said: “I would trade all my technologies for a meeting with Socrates.” What happened next? Jobs felt free and believed in himself and his idea. And here the first test awaited him, the test of the temptations of the ego... But more on that a little later.

Steve Jobs and his computers

After creating the first computer, Jobs named the company, which was still working in the garage, “Apple Computers.” Now there are many opinions about why exactly an apple - and not just an ordinary one, but a bitten one - became the company’s logo. Friends recall that the name was chosen spontaneously - so that in the directory it would appear before the Atari company. According to another version, Jobs said that if his friends don’t come up with something normal, let Apple remain. Another point of view also deals with spontaneity. Jobs entrusted the creation of the logo to a designer he knew. He unsuccessfully tried to give the apple some kind of philosophical meaning until, in despair, he took a bite of the apple. It was then that the idea came to him, imprinted as the famous Apple symbol.

Others tell a very funny story: the apple was chosen as a symbol because in those years Steve Jobs hung out with hippies and spent a lot of time with them in the garden. And so that people would not confuse the graphic image of an apple with a tomato, it was decided to give it the same shape.

The name of the company is also associated with the “Newtonian apple” - Jobs was destined to become the same pioneer in the computer field as Newton was in physics. And, of course, the most common interpretation is the biblical apple, which Adam and Eve could not resist.

Jobs is desperately knocking closed doors. They don’t believe him, they don’t want to listen to him - real innovations always face desperate resistance from society, clinging to the old, but proven. But then the first sponsors appear, they also become the founders of Apple. Incredible opportunities are opening up for Jobs: he is finally being appreciated.

And now a little about the “Empire of Seduction”, or rather, about what is usually included in this concept. Commercials did their job - and Jobs began to be perceived as a man who “seduced millions.” On the other hand, Jobs faces many temptations - money, fame, which he cannot resist. Fanatically devoted to his own ideas, the genius furiously throws out of his life those who, as it seems to him, do not share his views. Steve kicks his pregnant girlfriend out of the house: raising a child could interfere with his grandiose plans. One by one, he fires his best friends from the company - the team with which he began working in his youth. “He’s the best programmer!” - a company employee stands up for the fired employee, to which the movie character Jobs replies: Yes, we started our business together, but Apple is growing, and the company does not need people who cannot move as quickly. The company has outgrown its people.

...It was rumored that Jobs shared the views of Buddhists. And the Buddha, as we know, warned about the dangers that people face when they fall into the trap of attachment. Coming from India, Jobs becomes fascinated by his life's work - and it becomes his greatest affection. Attachment to an idea becomes an obsession. Only after losing everything, driving away old friends, and experiencing the betrayal of new ones, does he try to correct his mistakes. The film perfectly reflects Jobs' egocentrism and self-obsession. For the first time, the picture of the world collapses when Steve's friend announces his resignation from Apple. "But why?" - exclaims the amazed Jobs. The reason for this was the substitution of values: not a machine for people, but people for a machine. “We started our business when we were young and wanted to create toys for ourselves. Now I don’t remember the last time we spoke to each other. Your world begins and ends with you."

Success comes to Jobs, who was able to realize his mistakes, which is perfectly shown in the film, when not a daring youth, but a wise man surrounds his life with real allies, builds family relationships. By the way, Jobs's colleague Steve Wozniak later noted that Jobs did a lot of amazing things, but Apple benefited only from the “late Jobs.”

Often in books dedicated to Jobs, they try to show the journey to India as starting point his worldview. But travel cannot be an end in itself; the main thing is spiritual experience and human growth. In the film, Steve still has many events to go through; the trip is only a gift, followed by a test of willpower, a test of humanity. The further development of the individual depends on what the result of this “test” will be.

And now a few words about the Ukrainian release of the film “Jobs. Empire of temptation." For the first time in the history of cinema, it was not professional actors who were offered to voice characters, but talented IT specialists. It was assumed that it was easier for professionals to understand the psychology of other professionals and convey intonations and emotions. Ukrainian investor and founder of interactive television DIVAN.TV Andrey Kolodyuk voiced Jeff Raskin, Jobs' opponent. Andrey shared with the audience the possibilities in the field of technology, talked about personal projects, how important it is to ignite people creative idea. According to him, in any business project there is an ecosystem that “attracts” capable people.

An ecosystem is the relationship between different kinds of people and companies that form a certain network. A network of exchange of thoughts, knowledge, emotions, energy. Why do they say about IT people: they are not completely normal people? Because they are within their own system - an ecosystem, where they have their own language, their own environment. This is the energy of relationships between people who unite around the realization of one goal. Eco does not mean ecology, although there is the concept of ecology of relationships. In the ecosystem, people speak the same language, and you can see right away when different guys-investors come to our ecosystem: they say, what, should we give money? Our ecosystem rejects such people. They will politely say: yes, thank you, but no money is needed, because they understand that the person is from a different market - buy and sell. Stole - sat down - drank - went to prison - took away and so on. I don't want to offend anyone, but business is a broad concept. That is, an ecosystem is not a closed club; on the contrary, it is for people with an open heart and a desire to implement something together.

Jobs Corporation is a perfect example of an ecosystem: people gather around a genius who can work on this idea to change themselves and the world for the better. And how can we not remember the brilliant quote from Steve Jobs:

“We are here to contribute to this world. Otherwise why are we here?

Asya Shkuro

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

I first learned about this brilliant man in the English textbook “Upstream” Advanced English in my third year. The textbook was quite modern and full of interesting short 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 “Mac” didn’t mean anything to me. Today I use it every day. I practically never part with him. It may be a little outdated, bought back in 2009 in the States, but it’s so familiar and indispensable.

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

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

If Jobs hadn’t burned so hard and worked so hard, all this would have remained unknown to the world! We would know no iPhones, no iPods, no iPads, no Macintoshes...

What distinguished Jobs from his contemporaries?

He was different rebellious in spirit.

He wondered.

He was looking for the same thing "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 his whole life depends on alms.

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

Jobs assured that the path of 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 tells you to live in 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 what you really want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

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

He has always been distinguished clarity of thinking.

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

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

I really like the saying about Love And faith.

“Sometimes life hits you over the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. 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 great work. 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 matters of the heart, you'll know it when you find it. And like any a good relationship, they get better and better over the years. So search until you find it. Do not stop".

The most the best!

“Stay hungry. Stay reckless. And I always wished this for myself. And now that you are graduating and starting over, I wish this for you. Stay hungry. Stay reckless."

And the most impudent!

“I would trade all my technology for a meeting with Socrates.”

Interesting Facts....
A very talented, even brilliant person.))
I may not have an Apple, but..)

Great article.

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

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

I first learned about this brilliant man in the English textbook “Upstream” Advanced English in my third year. The textbook was quite modern and full of interesting short articles. That's how I found out about mac and its creator, who studied in India...

But then the word “Mac” didn’t mean anything to me. Today I use it every day. I practically never part with him. It may be a little outdated, bought back in 2009 in the States, but it’s so familiar and indispensable.

Then iPhone 3 appeared in my life. Then it was something very unusual. The screen is touchscreen, 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 figure. Me too. I hold a cute white iPhone in my hands and understand that this is nothing more than his Great Idea, his brainchild, expressed in the form... And I use it, and I am very comfortable with it. He gave the world new technologies.

If Jobs hadn’t burned so hard and worked so hard, all this would have remained unknown to the world! We would know no iPhones, no iPods, no iPads, no Macintoshes...

What distinguished Jobs from his contemporaries?

He was different rebellious in spirit.

He wondered.

He was looking for the same thing "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 his whole life depends on alms.

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

He has always been distinguished clarity of thinking.

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

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

I really like the saying about Love And faith.

“Sometimes life hits you over the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. 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 great work. 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 matters of the heart, you'll know it when you find it. And like any good relationship, it gets better and better over the years. So search until you find it. Do not stop".

The most the best!

“Stay hungry. Stay reckless. And I always wished this for myself. And now that you are graduating and starting over, I wish this for you. Stay hungry. Stay reckless."

And the most impudent!

“I would trade all my technology for a meeting with Socrates.”