The Zen Of Work

In 1970, Les Kaye asked the management at IBM if he could take a three-month leave of absence to live in a Zen monastery. Suprisingly, they said yes. A year later, he was ordained as a Zen monk. Back at IBM, he discovered joy, harmony and fluid relationships in a job that had previously been an endless desert of problems to overcome and goals to attain. IBM had not changed, but he had.