WB-TrainConsult wrote: > > > What you wrote about holding the space there, speaks to me to be an > altered modus of mind (independently of people being present in > physical space), relates two aspects I did not interconnect so > directly, i.e. 'meditation' and 'Open and hold Space' > > LET GO & PERCEIVE WHAT IS
I think that's a lot of it. ANd what others have written about meditation is touching things for me too, especially Judi's comment about discovering more onion peels. It reminds me of a famous quote, which can be paraphrased as "it's onion peels all the way down." That's maybe why contemplation of the same makes me want to cry! THis whole week of conversation on the list has put me more and more into the mode of "less speaking" and "more doing." Which is strange because I've written here more in the last week than I have a lot lately about things that I am trying not to write about...if you follow me. I have to say, echoing Harrison, that the more I work with OST, the less certain I am about how to do it well. And I am increasingly unable to describe how to improve one's practice of OST, even though I have a decent handle on how to do that for myself. Last August, the theme of OSonOS here in Vancouver was "Improving our practice of OST" and even though we had 80 people discuss around that issue for 2.5 days, I don't know that it's any clearer for me. When I was a high school student I enrolled in the first ever Third World history course offered at a Toronto high school. On the first day, the teacher said, "the goal of this course is not to provide you with answers but to provide you with questions." It sounds almost trite now, but at 16 years old, I felt this incredible epiphany occur and I gained my first true insight into what the practice of learning truly is. Since then, I feel that my life has been one great drafting of question after question, not even waiting around for the answers. It reminds me of the Gamemaster's role in The Glass Bead Game. It also reminds me of the story from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where a group of people ask the question "What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?" They build a computer (called "Deep Thought") to answer the question and leave it running for millions of years. Finally one day it spits out the answer: "42" Of course by this time, no one has remembered the question, so the scientists set about trying to formulate the question that would give that answer and after a hugely concerted effort, they finally arrive upon "What is six times seven?" That's really what it is all about, eh? Chris -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Consultation - Facilitation Open Space Technology http://www.chriscorrigan.com ch...@chriscorrigan.com go leafs go * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html